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From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science conundrums...

How does the fact that it gets dark at night...

Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to...

Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of years ago to...

A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And...

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of...

Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.

Creation: The Origin of...

Oceans are the most mysterious places on earth. Their depths remain largely unexplored, yet ninety-five percent of the planet's...

The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive...

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary...

When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible book that would teach you...

Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmental crisis....

An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk Savvy

Is more data...

The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But...

A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth

What does it...

The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums

In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery....

From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity

Farming is the...

What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?

In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading...

A charming, modern miscellany of herbs - for gardeners, cooks and armchair botanists alike

Lovingly cultivated by...

The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of...

From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms?
What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery...