Жанр "Научная литература"

What makes a scientist?

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

A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures we can’t live...

An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Includes detailed Moon maps...

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...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the...

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...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth.

Carbon. It is the building...

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 Botanical Bible tells the story of plants and flowers, beginning with an overview of the plant kingdom and the basics of...

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

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...

Sale... , Michelsen...

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

Early travellers to the...

The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats,...

‘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...

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its...

‘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...

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and...

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