How we might stabilise climate change and repair habitats and the environment, in consultation with geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, mathematicians, h... read more
An extraordinary tale of patience and determination: Slaght has dedicated his life to save Blakiston's fish owl, a rare denizen of the taiga. His book is a revelation of the contemporary Rus... read more
Professor Simard has spent a life-time in dendrological research, looking at the ways trees communicate and trade with one another that have been popularised in recent years by Peter Wohlle... read more
The author is a distinguished historian; as professor of British history at Stanford, she has a commanding view of the Empire and its changing narratives. Original and well-informed.
Humane and witty ruminations on science, history, philosophy and politics by the bestselling physicist: Dante's universe, Nabokov's butterflies, Einstein's errors, etc.
Weather-beaten and remote, Helgoland is the treeless North Sea island to which 23-year old Werner Heisenberg fled to relieve his hay fever symptoms. Upon it he devised the theory of quantum ... read more