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"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."

Skylarks are the heralds of our...

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...

'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great...

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them...

Discover the lost art of reading nature's own signposts with this beautiful tenth anniversary edition of The Natural...

This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its...

The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first...

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

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

An enchanting and wildly entertaining tour of the Solar System

Have you ever dreamt of being an astronaut, travelling through...

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

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains...

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

50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the...

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...

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

In this lyrical meditation on America's...

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works

Over the past 75 years, a new canon...

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works

Over the past 75 years, a new canon...

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

The courageous, unflinching speeches and...

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

With honesty, passion and heart, Terry...

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...