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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

Every Species is a Masterpiece brings...

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...

Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence: Searching For Ourselves in the Universe is an engaging and lucid guide to the 'Fermi Paradox' -...

James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says...

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the...

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

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

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...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....

How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?

Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as...

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...

Adams... , C...

Join Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

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

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...