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A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023
'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman
'Absolutely fascinating' James O'Brien
'An ...
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST
A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of ...
A glorious celebration of the beauty, diversity, importance and sheer wonder of plants, with exquisite illustrations from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Refreshingly clear'
Sunday Times
'A hugely enjoyable slice of popular science'
Daily Mail
A ...
Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and accessories to murder ...
'A delightful balance of ideas, inspiration and science' Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs
'We can all learn ...
In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A zoologist watches a fish ...
At the scale of atoms and molecules, things quite often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at the nanoscale ...
In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly ...
Serpulid polychaetes are a unique and highly specialised group of marine segmented worms that have adapted to inhabiting self-secreted calcareous tubes attached to a wide ...
Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean ...
Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is ...
