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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 radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative.

We are told that modern science was...

We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are...

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...

The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity...

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...

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics...

"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...