Popular Science

Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. 'Books Do Furnish a Life' is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, ...

'Breakthrough' takes the reader on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-tim...

Professor Hawking was a brilliant theoretical physicist, an influential author and thinker, and a great popular communicator. Throughout his career he was asked questions by business leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics and the general public on a broad range of subjects, from the origi...

Wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating, passionately argued, and infused with his characteristic humour, 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', the final book from one of the greatest minds in history, is a personal view on the challenges we face as a human race, and where we, as a planet, are h...

Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' has become an international publishing phenomenon. Translated into over 30 languages, it has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate and inspire new readers each year.

Come rain or shine, flowers feature perennially in the landscape of human history. Their beauty has inspired some of the greatest works of art and literature, captivating creative minds from Ovid to O'Keeffe, Wordsworth to Van Gogh, Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But flowers have also played a key...

We talk about the weather a lot . It exasperates, confounds and on occasion delights us. Our national conversation is dominated by the weather, but how much do we really know about it? In 'Bring Me Sunshine', Charlie Connelly sets off on the trail of our island obsession.

This identification guide provides comprehensive coverage of all our resident and migratory butterflies, including the latest information on newly discovered species such as the Cryptic Wood White and the Geranium Bronze.

This survey examines the camel's role in society and history. It explores why the camel has provided a source of fascination for so many artists, writers and thinkers, including Leonardo da Vinci, Poussin, Tiepolo, Flaubert, and Kipling.

This title covers Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, the two easternmost Canary Islands. These islands only recently became known to the general public as a winter destination for sun seekers. However, these islands, with their odd mix of volcanic and Saharan-style desert landscapes, support a wonder f...