And yet this shared sonic existence is in crisis, as human noise threatens to drown out all else. From city streets to ocean depths, and Palaeolithic cave dwellings to modern concert halls, Sounds Wild and Broken is an illuminating exploration of the rich and varied sounds of our planet.

A hundred years on from the first Moon landing, where will space exploration have taken us?

A hundred years on from the first Moon landing, where will space exploration have taken us?

The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk

HORRIBLE SCIENCE: SPACE, STARS AND SLIMY ALIENS is bursting a space-hopping book of stunning science. Zoom to the stars with Oddblob the alien, and take part in a spacewalk that's out of this world and learn what the moon smells like. Redesigned in a bold, funky new look for the next generation of HORRIBLE SCIENCE fans.

An environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.

Revealing the fundamental connection between the stars and the story of civilization, leading cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.

The inspiring memoir from TV traveller Simon Reeve's life of amazing adventures in over 120 countries and the most remote and extreme corners of the planet.

Look up: above us is a jet-black canvas pricked with white dots, and a carnival of animals, mythical creatures, gods and goddesses in its shining constellations. This is an imaginative and whimsical exploration of each of the night sky's 88 constellations: a playful and illustrated compendium.

Brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating. Our world is full of patterns. This book explains some of the most toolbox of science - a toolbox we need in order to make sense of what is around us and arrive at decisions about the future, from medical advances to solving our future energy needs.

This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? In a tour de force of analytic thinking, Bostrom lays a foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

Unleash unlimited creativity in every area of your life with the science of Breakthough Biodynamics by using innovation and leadership expert Nick Seneca Jankel's 10 step Breakthrough Curve

This book will change the way you think about talk. It will explain the big pay-offs to understanding conversation scientifically.

Traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. This book examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language; investigates the first links between signs, sounds, and meanings; explores the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and more.

Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration.

A dazzling celebration of the natural world and our place in it from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer.

The Telomerase Revolution is the definitive work on the latest science on human ageing, covering both theory and clinical implications. It takes the reader to the forefront of the upcoming revolution in human medicine.

The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.

John Tyndall was a leading scientific figure in Victorian Britain, who established the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, and why the sky is blue. This rich biography describes the colourful life and achievements of this brilliant communicator, physicist, and mountaineer, who ascended from humble beginnings to the heart of Victorian society.

A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.

A luminous and original account of the Bathysphere expeditions: the first ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly terrain more than 3000ft below sea level