
Staff Pick: Nature Books
In celebration of Earth Day on 22nd April, Yale University Press London staff choose their favourite books on…
In celebration of Earth Day on 22nd April, Yale University Press London staff choose their favourite books on…
We seem, today, to be infatuated with indoor plants and flowers. Many of our every day public indoor…
The fact that the daisy grows in so many places — native to western, central and northern Europe,…
As an aid to students, teachers and parents dealing with the challenges of home learning, we have constructed…
New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-expanding festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and…
The extravagant gardens of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest…
Award-winning adventure and science journalist, Leslie Anthony, offers five things you (maybe) didn’t know about the burgeoning environmental…
In his latest work, Against the Grain, James C. Scott explores why humans abandoned hunting and gathering for…
To celebrate this Year’s Royal Horticultural Society Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, the Yale Books Blog is in…
The climate change debate is at the top of the news agenda and is proving controversial among nations….
Dieter Helm, author of Burn Out, asks whether oil, gas and coal company executives should be quaking in their…
Industry expert Dieter Helm states that an energy revolution is under way. Below, he controversially surveys existing and future…
The Trump narrative on energy is, like his on manufacturing, full of holes. But this might not matter…
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…
Scott Solomon, an evolutionary biologist, provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens as he introduces his new book Future…