The Earth: Natural History General

A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough’s unforgettable meeting with gorill...

A magical new series from best-selling author and illustrator, Laura Ellen Anderson! Ten-year-old Ray Grey lives in the magical Weatherla...

Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history; their fleeting magnificence and endless variety have inspired scienti...

YOUR GUIDE TO THE HIDDEN WONDERS OF THE WEATHER FROM TRISTAN GOOLEY, AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE WALKER'S GUIDE TO OUTDOOR CLUES & ...

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sou...

'A masterpiece' - Daily Mail'A brilliant gift for anyone who loves the countryside' - Independent'A work of beauty, deeply informed, a fantastic gi...

The definitive work on Minnesota’s natural history and ecology—updated, expanded, and copiously illustrated to account for profound changes to the ...

Imagine standing at the center of a Roman coliseum that is 20 miles across, with walls that soar 10 miles into the sky, towering walls with cascade...

Imagine a world without the weather forecast. Is it likely to be warm and sunny for the fete at the weekend? Will Thursday be a good day to make th...

Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of hi...

The human body and the atmosphere meet at one of the most magical and complex intersections in the known universe. That the weather intensifies or ...

Desert by Design celebrates the interior worlds that exist in Earth’s most arid climes and, more importantly, the creative minds who inhabit them I...

Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar’s Reith lectures of 1959. The book outlines his predictions abou...

A little over 170 years ago--hardly a moment on the clock of history--one half of the United States was empty of all but Indians and the plants and...

Halley’s Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC ...

On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to he...

A richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance EuropeArt played a pivotal role in the development of natural histo...

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current ma...

Far from the beach-towel--covered sands of Waikiki there is a hidden Hawai'i: remote islands and atolls that are some of the wildest--and at the sa...

First published in 1906, these four lectures were originally delivered in the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at Cambridge. Evidence is derived fr...

In this first volume of his Secrets of the Forest series, nature educator Mark Warren explains how to identify and use 100 wild plants as food, med...

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sou...

Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It...

Originally published in 1995 this is the fifth volume in the series Creationism in 20th Century America. It re-publishes After Its Kind – a critiqu...

Bioenergetics deals with the very first energy transformation steps performed by living cells. Increased dissipation is the primary effect of proce...

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer is the sixth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century Ameri...

This book examines why individuals and communities invest heavily in their religious life through multi-disciplinary perspectives. It pursues philo...

First published in 1900, this philosophical essay on Evolution questions how the acceptance of Evolution as scientific should influence the thought...