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Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
In an age of unprecedented astronomical discovery, world-renowned astronomer Paul Murdin tells the stories of the men and women who first revealed the shape of the Earth, the existence of...
Into the Deep Blue Sea: An Ocean Pop-Up
This exciting pop-up adventure takes us into the deep blue sea! From the author of In a Spooky Haunted House and Into Starry Outer Space , this underwater nonfiction story...
Pool Party!
Discover the tiny, fascinating world that exists among the leaves of a rainforest plant in this new book in an illuminating nonfiction picture book series that explores how even the...
Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writingShortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationA Times Science Book of the Year 'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the...
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the
'A highly readable, entertaining and mind-expanding read from a formidable scientist' iNews How did life begin on Earth? Could it exist on other planets? Or are we alone in the...
How to Thrive in Retrograde: Navigate the chaos and live in cosmic
The planets play a key role in astrology - from revealing aspects of your personality to exerting their influence upon different areas of your life - thanks to their movements...
Forty Ways to Know a Star: Using Stars to Understand Astronomy
Stars are the building blocks of galaxies. Astoundingly, there are 4,000 million stars in our own Milky Way, and there are two million million galaxies in our visible universe. Stars...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
NOW IN PAPERBACK A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the...
Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives . We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecosystems of Egypt to the...
Wild Places: Volume 6
Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them;...
Big Questions About the Universe
How big is space? Where does the universe end? And more thought-provoking questions, answered. The questions in this book were curated by the staff at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in...
Collins World Atlas: Reference Edition
A new, fully updated edition of this popular atlas in the Collins world atlas range. Designed in the distinctive Collins style, it is the ideal reference atlas for school, home...
Children of Memory
From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. They dreamed...
Fold-Out Timeline of Planet Earth
The history of our amazing planet unfolds at a glance in this graphic timeline. From the Big Bang to the present day, discover the wonders of our ever-changing planet as...
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher , filmmaker Craig Foster " Amphibious Soul is an important...
This Earthly Globe: 'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan 'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday Telegraph, 5* review DURING THE...
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny' Richard Osman 'This book is superb' Charlie Brooker 'Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious.' Jonn Elledge,...
The Ghost Lake
'Remarkable' OBSERVER 'Deeply profound... this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES 'Astounding' ADAM FARRER 'Brave and luminous' SARAH LANGFORD 'Mesmerising' POLLY ATKIN 'Beautifully written' YORKSHIRE POST 'Steadfastly honest' GEOGRAPHICAL A...
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in...
The Science Museum Puzzle Book - Journey into Space: The perfect
Are you ready to become an astronaut? Then prepare for lift off with The Science Museum Puzzle Book, a unique puzzle book to launch your exploration of space. Embark on...
The Faber Book of Exploration
What does it feel like to walk off the edge of a map? To walk upon the moon, or stand on the roof of the world? Benedict Allen's anthology of...
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe... The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey...
The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth
*A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025* *A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2025* 'In this poetic and heartfelt journey through deep time, geologist Anjana Khatwa braids scientific knowledge and traditional...
Our Moon: A Human History
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by...
The Orchid: A celebration of the world's most charismatic flower
Queen of the night, Darwin's comet, lady's slipper, little dragon, black chimaera - the otherworldly names of orchid species are as beautiful as these sought-after flowers themselves. From flamboyant and...
Explorers: A New History
Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar...
The Science of Interstellar
Interstellar , from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar , Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning...
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later...
The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'TODAY': Lithium, copper, and
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND FT BUSINESS BOOK...
Astrologica: An Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends From the Planets,
Big, bold and beautiful, this is the enthralling celestial follow-up to Mythologica: Amazon's No. 1 Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019.How did the moon influence mighty emperors in Ancient...
Outback Astronomer: The extraordinary story of how an amateur
Born and raised in remote Broken Hill, Trevor Barry left school after year ten to work in the mines. Years later, a single glimpse of Saturn through a colleague's telescope...
Forgotten: Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about...
Out of this World and into the Next: Notes from a Physicist on Space
Humanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what lies beyond our world. Now, we are on the precipice of stepping out among the stars, not just...
The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing
A vivid new history of how medieval people around the world perceived the moon When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was...
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history "The book is a lot...
Geo-Graphics
Our universe is brimming with secrets, and surprising curiosities. Here readers will learn the answers to all the questions they've asked themselves: What does the Sun look like from different...
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a...
Nelson's Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea
The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British...
The Unity of Science: Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life For Irwin Shapiro, good science starts with good questions. This book provides a broad...
What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their
Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical...
For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet
A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. For the Love of...
Extinctions: From Dinosaurs to You
A compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster? On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is...
Wild Signs and Star Paths: A must-have for all nature lovers - perfect
'Beautifully written... I promise you will feel more in tune with the world around after reading only one chapter of WILD SIGNS and STAR PATHS , let alone the book...
A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population. Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking...
Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions-about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature-and how it contends with...
Maps, Annotated: The World's 300 Greatest Maps Explained
A guided tour of the world's most important and beautiful maps This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of...
Exploration Map by Map: From Migrations and Encounters to Voyages and
Follow in the footsteps of the world's greatest pioneers Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...