'A book of marvels, marvellously written' RICHARD DAWKINS A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bio-luminescence, the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness, and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth.
Tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. This work describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. It also addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a look at the work still to be done.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.
At the scale of atoms and molecules, things often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don't just matter at the nanoscale; working together, they produce some important larger-scale forces. Like friction, for example: the force that keeps cars on the road, trains on the tracks and our feet on the ground; or drag, a phenomenon encountered by anything moving through water or air.