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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...
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...
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and...
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...
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 Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book A BBC Sky at Night Best Book "An impressively comprehensive bird's-eye view of a research topic that is both many decades established and yet still...
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...
A Little History of the Earth
A lively account of the history of our planet, from its earliest origins to the present day, told through the major geological changes and scientific breakthroughs Where has our planet...
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...
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...
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
A vivid philosophical tour de force that initiated ecological thought and writing as we know it today 'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,'...
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...
The Last Winter: The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the World
Author: Porter Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of...
Cacophony of Bone
Author: Kerri ni Dochartaigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage...
The Times Reference Atlas of the World
Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged. Tenth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. This world atlas contains the breadth,...
The Last Winter: The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
Look out your window and see the moon, stars and distant planets. Light years away, it's easy to think that our lives and their existences will never intersect. Yet meteorites...
Out of this World and into the Next: Notes from a Physicist on Space Exploration
Author: Adriana Marais Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Humanity has always looked up at the night sky and wondered what lies beyond our world. Now, we are on the...
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos
One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what...
Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Traveller's Guide to Blue Moons and
*Fully revised and updated for the 21st century* The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an odyssey into the deepest,...
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars
'Inventive [...] done beautifully' - TLS From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer...
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
'VISIONARY' Stephen Greenblatt Harvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our solar system In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed...
Bligh: Master Mariner
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators,...
The Essential Atlas of the Bible
Embark on a fascinating journey through the lands where key biblical events unfolded. Visit the places where Jesus preached, Moses journeyed, and Paul spread the word of God - all...
See Inside Castles
A wonderful interactive insight into castle life. Visit a stunning stone castle and be transported back in time in this carefully curated flap book. With highly detailed illustrations, entertaining, informative...
Collins Primary Atlas: Ideal for learning at school and at home
The must-have atlas for children aged 7-11 Collins Primary Atlas is a great introduction to mapping of the UK, Europe and all major regions of the world. It supports the...
Collins School Atlas: Ideal for learning at school and at home
The must-have atlas for pupils aged 11-14 Fully updated for 2025, this world atlas is designed to support Key Stage 3 students aged 11-14 years in developing their geographical and...
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, they have shaped our history and might one...
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
Where do we come from and how did we get here? Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max Telford A four-billion-year journey...
Captain Scott
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress...
Captain James Cook
In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition
A gorgeous anniversary edition of the international phenomenon- 'one of the best books of the 21st century' (Guardian) These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the...