Norwegian Wood meets The Tao of Pooh in this philosophical, witty, and heartwarming collection of daily observations from a Swedish academic-turned-sheep farmer who finds peace...

Twenty-five years ago they bought a homestead, in the middle of Vancouver Island, on the water’s edge. There are still reflections off the small lake at the foot of Mount...

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is...

This book presents the ability to bring together a single work of scientific articles from the best minds of the Institute of Environment and Energy of the University of São...

Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the...

Learn the science behind weather and weather prediction in this clear and straightforward new guide.Weather is everywhere, and while it’s typically not thought about most of...

For the first time, His Royal Highness Charles, the Prince of Wales, shares his views on how mankind’s most pressing modern challenges are rooted in our disharmony with...

‘As Daniel Lewis elegantly illustrates, trees are basic material and precious resource; refugees and invaders; recorders, victims, and perhaps solvers of the changing...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world—under the open skies.""I believe in sleeping outdoors, surrounded by tall fir trees,...

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.""  — Scientific AmericanThe...