My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell.Escaping the ills of the...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are amon...
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.How do we carry on when someone close to us dies? Is it simply a c...
'One of the best books on evolutionary biology for a broad readership ever written' Edward O. WilsonA dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debate...
From parrots and penguins to eagles and emus, this beautifully illustrated book is packed with amazing birds from around the world. The book is organised into themed pages, including gardens and me...
With pictures of 199 bugs, from honeybees and garden snails to monarch butterflies and dung beetles, this beautifully illustrated book is perfect for fans of insects and creepy-crawlies. The bugs a...
How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun and the wind? How do woolly sweaters help penguins in pe...
Why do we need to recycle and what happens to our rubbish after it is taken away? This book reveals the impact we have on our planet and environment and how recycling creates new products such as c...
This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . 'talk'.In the world of plants, time passes more slowly, but ...
Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He sp...
Fractals are the geometry of the natural world. They're about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world- the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealised forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals ever...
The tips and tricks are just brilliant.' – Jane Dunn, author of Jane's Patisserie101 eco-friendly home-hacks, tips and recipes from Sunday Times bestselling author and Great Briti...
For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.Farming is the world's greatest cau...
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't.Should we believe in God...
On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a c...
The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the BeagleIntroducing Little Black Cl...
Publikacja towarzyszy wystawie Victorii Vesny Noise Aquarium zorganizowanej przez Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej ŁAŹNIA w Gdańsku w ramach projektu Art.+Science Meeting w dniach 18 września - 4...
Jest to mapa jednostronna w skali 1:50 000. Przedstawia fragment wybrzeża zachodniopomorskiego, w skład którego wchodzą: Wyspa Wolin oraz część Wyspy Uznam i Równiny Gryfickiej. Zasię...
Publikacja poświęcona antycznemu DNA (aDNA) – materiałowi genetycznemu organizmów sprzed setek lub tysięcy lat. aDNA, do niedawna pozostający bardziej w sferze fantastyki naukowej niż ...