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'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and admirabl...

This authoritative and groundbreaking publication, written by three internationally renowned design historians, is the first major critical assessm...

Product Description Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces...

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory sti...

When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve?...

What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers. Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implic...

Product Description A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedente...

* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets * The Library of ancient Alexandria * The human brain * Egyptian hieroglyphics * The origin of life * The d...

Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence.

Product Description Renowned paleoartist John Gurche brings the traditional techniques of figure drawing and anatomical art to the portrayal of ou...

Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessibl...

At the turn to the twentieth century, architects began to realize that architecture should no longer find ist expression in historic styles. They h...

Product Description Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art, but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are brea...

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of...

An awe-inspiring exploration of the sounds of the living Earth, and the joys and threats of human music, language and noise. 'A symphony, filled w...

This two volume handbook is unique in spanning the entire field of evolution, from the origins of life up to the formation of social structures and...

This book, first published in 2001, examines the impact of increased legislative power and political authority on the internal development of the E...

‘I’m for mechanical art’, said Andy Warhol (1928–1987). ‘When I took up silkscreening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through ...