Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology

Climb inside these stunning muscle car drop-tops, straight from the classic era of American high-performance cars!Today's rarest, priciest, and most highly sought-after muscle cars are also the least practical. These are the striking convertibles of the 1960s and 1970s that were optioned out for ...

Today's rarest, priciest, and most highly sought-after muscle cars are also the least practical. These are the striking convertibles of the 1960s and 1970s that were optioned out for drag racing. Wide-Open Muscle showcases these rare cars and proves that sometimes it pays to throw practicality ou...

Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years' worth of Patrick Barkham's writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to the many changes we have imposed upon the planet and the challenges lying ahead for the future of nature. From Norwegian wolves to protests against the HS2 railway, ...

From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a cartographic journey through our planet's weirdest and most wonderful phenomena. Which migrating birds fly the furthest? Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries' leaders don't believe in climate change? Where were our ...

How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes the reader on a highly illustrated tour through the history of geometry, from ancient Greece to the pre...

Do you enjoy looking at the night sky but aren't sure how to keep track of what you've seen? Maybe you're looking to take your night watching to another level and find more incredible sights? Bob King's bucket list collection of 70 must-see night sky wonders and darky sky destinations will fill y...

This is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters - and has done since prehistory - Roland Ennos t...

A new, updated issue of this bestselling guide to essential carpentry techniques and timeless projects to master the art of woodworking.