Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have l...
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to...
This beautifully illustrated reference book shows 1000 things found in nature, from familiar bugs and flowers to exotic birds of paradise and fascinating undersea creatures. Children can pore over ...
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.
Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognized as the breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the wo...
Discover why there's hope for the planet and how we can each make a difference in the climate crisis, starting today.Humanity is not doomed, and we can and will survive. The future is o...
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse, it is extraordinary.But what does it actually mean to be alive?Nobel prize-winner Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how ...
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Suda...
An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe.In his follow-up to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Dr...
'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree 'I doubt any more important book will published this year' - Stephen Fry In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of t...
There is only one bird species that hunts in summer and rears its young in winter: the Emperor Penguin. These extraordinary animals survive the relentless Antarctic climate, braving an average temp...
The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book that explained the nuts and bolts of c...
A bumper children's sticker book covering everything you need to know about all the different dinosaurs, from Diplodocus to Tyrannosaurus Rex, with more than 600 dinosaur stickers for kids to enjoy...
Olympus, the GrandCanyon, Uluru and the Serengeti: national parks are home to the wonders of ournatural world. Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar explores the greatest national parksof the wo...
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who M...
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An est...
Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.'I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and t...
A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not ...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...
Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the first day to the capture of a...