Discover the fascinating world of mushrooms with this beautiful pocket guide, featuring trivia about the fungi kingdom, mushroom folklore from around the world, an introduction to identifying common wild mushrooms and a collection of delicious mushroom-based recipes.

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.

A fun, well-structured collection of facts and trivia about the climate.

Problemen van klimaatverandering en CO2 helder samengevat in het boek ... op hete kolen ...

Ron Haseth is geboren op Curaçao. Na zijn middelbare school te hebben afgerond, vertrok hij naar Nederland voor zijn studie natuurkunde. In 1985 keerde hij terug naar zijn geboorte-eiland, waar hij jarenlang als natuurkundedocent heeft gewerkt. Sinds 2000 woont hij weer in Nederland, waar hij natuurkunde en NLT (Natuur, Leven & Technologie) doceert aan een middelbare school. Naast zijn werk als docent...

From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, the author embarks upon a quest that takes him through Britain, across Europe, to Central Asia and Australia, in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with wood and with trees. He tells about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives.

Brian Cox is a Professor of Particle Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and works at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. He is also a popular presenter on TV and radio.Jeff Forshaw is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, specializing in the physics of elementary particles. He was awarded the Institute of Physics Maxwell Medal in 1999 for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics.

A page-turning account of a brutal urban wildfire, and a sweeping exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire

Exploring dust as a method for seeing the world - from space dust to sandstorms, the domestic to the digital.

It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice.

In our networked and image-saturate...

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Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour

Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to ...