Collection: Nonfiction

In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin's groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change-with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. With a new introduction, this edition now features reflection...

For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself through her iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn't It Romantic. Now, she's ready to chronicle the emotional and physical lessons she learned, as well as her most embarrassing experiences....

Nigella and her style of cookery have earned a special place in our lives, symbolising all that is best, most pleasurable, most hands-on and least fussy about good food.

The big, bold taste explosions of Asia and the fresh, lively combinations of ingredients have had Bill Granger hooked since childhood. To him, the Asian dishes he most loves to cook and eat aren't exotic but quick, easy and healthy everyday food, whether intensely fresh and zingy or deeply savour...

Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of ext...

Rising temperatures around the globe put animals at risk. They lose their homes. They lose food and water sources. Find out more about animal conservation and what people are doing to prevent animal extinctions.

In this powerful, moving new book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruc...

Explore the daily lives of children around the world through the lens of a single, special day June 21st, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and the shortest in the southern hemisphere. Just two times each year - an event called the solstice - Earth leans closest to our home s...

In this enthralling travel memoir, a Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author takes readers to the end of the world to Antarctica, a place of stark beauty, history and endless scientific research, where he explores this land through the curiosity and wonder of his inner child.