A hotter, drier earth means a dustier earth. Owens frames these microparticles as the insidious biproduct of industrialism, whose immense repercussions will be felt ever more powerfully in ... read more
A vision of cosmic carnage from this invigorating astromagician. This time he squeezes into the eye of a black hole, slips beyond its horizon and then on into the dense, dense darkness where... read more
Erudition and curiosity impel this vivid, detailed portrait by the world's foremost expert on Linnaeus: this biography won several prizes when it was first published in Sweden in 2019.
Inspired by Darwin and von Humboldt, ARW travelled to the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago. He published a paper on natural selection in 1858, a year before Darwin's Origin of Species... read more
On the radical pre-Socratic philosopher and geometer who proposed (amongst other things) an early theory of evolution. By the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgoland.
Beautifully designed and illustrated, large format. Informative and somewhat interactive; enlivens the imagination. The planets, asteroids, comets... For ages 8-11.