Жанр "Научная литература"

Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to...

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...

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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...

The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his...

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...

Steve Jones’s highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic...

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

The wren is a paradox of a bird. They are Britain's most common bird, with 8.5 million breeding pairs and have by far the loudest...

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...

W... , W...

What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty...

Can you tell which plants are safe to eat?

Which trees are best to shelter under a storm?

How do you tell a deciduous and...

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing.

'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a...

Eating to Extinction is an astonishing journey through the past, present and future of food, a love letter to the diversity of...

The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies.

Dogs became our companions
Wheat fed a booming...

Our relationship with our land is broken: we must heal it.

Jake Fiennes is on a mission to change the face of the English...