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Drift off to sleep with one of Britain's most celebrated nature writers. The Sleep Almanac brings you John Lewis-Stempel's guide to Autumn; gently drifting you off to sleep through the quieting British countryside as the season turns. Follow fallow deer through the mist of a royal park. Walk the hedgerow lanes of a West Country village as redwings feast on hawthorn berries. Settle into the rhythms of a working farm at dusk, swallows departing for Africa, hedgehogs fattening for hibernation, and a tawny owl beginning its evening circuit of the valley.

The epic story of the plant kingdom, showing its staggering variety and ingenuity over half a billion years. ‘An awesome book. Ben Dark is a master storyteller’ NIGEL SLATER ‘Utterly fascinating. I don't expect to read a better work of natural history this year’ BILL BRYSON ‘An...

With the view of creating a caring, biodiverse and sustainable world for our human species, this book traces the history of human history from the earliest beginnings through the development of agriculture and civil society to modern times. The timeline illustrates the rise and fall of empires...

Connected to Place looks at place-based systems change as a real-world solution to our growing environmental and social crises. Distilling lessons from a thirty-year career in the social sector, Matt Biggar offers a practical guide to creating conditions for societal transformation. He presents...

For four centuries we have told ourselves a flattering story about the universe. It could have been almost anything, the story goes, and out of that vast lottery of possible worlds our own came up as the winning ticket, tuned with impossible precision to allow stars, chemistry, and eventually us...

Modern cosmology is populated almost entirely by things no one has ever seen. Dark matter, dark energy, fields and particles known only by their effects: the visible universe floats on a vast reservoir of the inferred. This is not a scandal. It is how ambitious physics has always worked. The...

Journey into the heart of California’s Sierra Nevada with John Muir, the legendary naturalist whose observations and writings helped inspire America’s conservation movement. In The Yosemite, Muir explores the magnificent landscapes of Yosemite Valley, bringing its towering granite domes...

Everyone knows the hair, the tongue, the equation. Almost nobody knows the questions.Albert Einstein spent his life refusing to accept that anything was a coincidence. Clocks in railway stations, a needle swinging in a sick child's bedroom, the fact that a falling man feels weightless, a...

The rose may be the most famous flower in the world, yet its history extends much beyond its decorative uses in gardens. According to fossil evidence, Rosa is a very young genus, dating back about 35 million years. Nonetheless, it wasn't until some 5,000 years ago that these plants were...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In December 1831 a twenty-two-year-old naturalist boarded a small survey brig at Devonport with a copy of Lyell's geology and a great deal of curiosity. He spent the next five years at sea, and what he saw changed the way everyone after him would think...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For fifty years after the last boot print was left in the grey dust, nobody went back. The Moon became a place humanity had visited once, in a burst of Cold War competition, and then quietly abandoned. That era is over, and the second race is not going...

It was late spring in 1976 and America was in turmoil, a nation divided. Two young men and their puppy decided to immerse themselves in nature by traveling by canoe from upstate New York to New Orleans. They lived along the river shores following the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers...

This is a book of curiosity and wonder. It's about some of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful ideas in space science from astrophysicist and Wiradjuri woman, Dr Kirsten Banks. Discover planets that are darker than charcoal, mysteries that make us go "Wow!", objects that wander into our...

Stars are supposed to stay put. They wheel around the center of the Milky Way for billions of years, obedient as commuters on a circle line, and the galaxy keeps every one of them. Almost every one. Every so often a star gets a shove so violent that the galaxy cannot hold it, and it leaves for...

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthood “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening.”...

Read by the author, Emily Cunningham. How can we save the ocean? And how can the ocean save us? From protecting nesting sea turtles on the beaches of Sri Lanka and deep-sea diving in the icy waters of Antarctica to taking school children in England to see the sea for the first time...

What if getting older could be undone?In animals, it already has been. Researchers took cells from old mice, switched them back toward a younger state, and the animals changed too. Blind mice saw again. Aged mice recovered lost memories. Mice treated near the end of life lived more than twice as...

Bloomsbury presents What Do Animals Think and Feel? by Karsten Brensing, read by Kris Dyer. In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the...

Bloomsbury presents Can Medicine Be Cured? by Seamus O'Mahony, read by Brian Walsh. A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress...

There's nothing quite like the incredible relationship between a human and a dog. From the moment we lay eyes on an adorable puppy or a wonderful adult dog who becomes part of our life journey, we share innumerable moments of pure joy with our furry best friends. With forty-five original pieces...