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

Lovingly cultivated by...

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual...

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

Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents,...

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...

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology...

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins In this...

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...

Braungart... , McDonough...

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

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...

'Barrow explains nothing with great clarity, a lovely lightness of touch and enormous erudition' Spectator

How do you begin to...

A controversial enquiry into the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory from an award-winning writer

High in the...

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

For centuries hummingbirds have captured our imaginations: revered by Native Americans, coveted by European collectors and...

How dogs defied science and changed the way we think about animals

What do dogs really think of us? What do dogs know and...