Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
by James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti

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by Lisa Kaltenegger
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Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.
by Frank Wilczek
Published Jan 2022
One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world.
by Robert Macfarlane
Published Aug 2020
From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.
by Kate Harris
Published Jun 2019
A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Roadan illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to challenge the limits we place on ourselves and the natural world.
by Jared Diamond
Published Oct 2013
The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years - a past that has mostly vanished - and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today.
by P.D. Smith
Published Jun 2012
With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work. It covers history, customs and language, districts, transport, money, work, shops and markets, and tourist sites, creating a fantastically detailed portrait of the city through history and into the future.
by Tash Aw
Published Dec 2010
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the pasttheir own and Indonesia's.
by Richard Fortey
Published Nov 2005
A fascinating geological exploration of the earth's distant history as revealed by its natural wonders.
by Jared Diamond
Published Apr 1999
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.'
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