Quick view The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird by Sam Lee Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring.Throughout history… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientist… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Everest 1922 by Mick Conefrey Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Waters and the Wild by Gwen Wilkinson Now: $18.69 MSRP: Was: In 2019, Gwen Wilkinson set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways. She set out from the shores of Lough Erne and navigated a 400km journey to the tidal… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Island of Woods: How Ireland Lost its Forests and How to Get them Back by Paul McMahon Now: $21.95 MSRP: Was: Forestry in Ireland has never been so contentious. It is the subject of protests outside parliament and angry call-in radio shows. Over the last century the area of Irish woodland has increased tenfold, mostly through the planting… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids by Richard Smyth Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: Richard Smyth had always been drawn to the natural world, but when he became a father he found a new joy and a new urgency in showing his kids the everyday wild things around them. As he and his children explore rockpools in Whitl… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence M Krauss Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why does anything exist? And ho… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden Now: $7.69 MSRP: $23.38 Was: 'Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your thinking?' In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman Now: $6.59 MSRP: $15.13 Was: A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting - centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks - transformed the earth.Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventur… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen Now: $5.50 MSRP: $10.99 Was: The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Wild Embrace: Connecting to the Wonder of Ireland's Natural World by Anja Murray Now: $18.15 MSRP: $20.63 Was: 'A hugely important, and simply delightful, book.' EOGHAN DALTUN, author of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest OPEN UP TO A NOURISHING NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH IRELAND'S WILD WORLD. Wild Embrace is about cultivating curiosity and awe in n… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Anaximander : And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: Now widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions Over two thousand years ago, one man change… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Otherlands: A World in the Making by Dr Thomas Halliday Now: $6.59 MSRP: $15.13 Was: Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past? Did eugenics work? Could it work? Or was it always a pseud… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view This Mortal Coil by Andrew Doig Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest awa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino (PB) Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: From a tiny crimson pear in the west of England to an exploding corn in Mexico, there are thousands of foods that are at risk of being lost for ever. Dan Saladino spans the globe to uncover their stories, meeting the pioneering fa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Elephants on Acid & Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese Now: $5.50 MSRP: $12.38 Was: Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Elementary by James M. Russell Now: $5.50 MSRP: $10.99 Was: Chemistry's most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose. The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marke… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science by James Hannam Now: $5.50 MSRP: $15.13 Was: This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of mediev… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains rel… Add to Cart The item has been added