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What makes a scientist?

Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the...

A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Trees are immensely valuable. They give shape...

From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes...

Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the...

Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise.
How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass...

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils—industrial, chemical,...

For fans of Charles Duhig, Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver, a brilliant and buoyant investigation into the existence (or not) of...

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday...

Einstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and...

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the...

Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of...

Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and...

Sale... , Michelsen...

This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations.

Early travellers to the...

‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human...

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock...

From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in...

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of...

Barnosky... , Hadly...

What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or...

The ash tree has long been an integral part of the British landscape, its familiar branches protruding from limestone scars and...

‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is...

Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in...

Cox Brian, Коэн Эндрю

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as...

The green movement has got it very wrong.

Nature no longer controls our planet – it is humanity, ‘the god species’, that must...

This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician...

An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures...

A brand-new edition of this bestselling Gem, featuring individual charts for all 88 constellations, a star atlas of the entire...

Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life: An Unauthorised Biography, was short-listed for the Rhone...

Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent...

North... , Abel Paul

The Solar System – so what is it?

We've all learned the basics at school but how much can you remember? Expert astronomers and...

A solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implications for the origin of...