Explores the life of birds, all around the globe. This title offers an account from the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.

What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; and they gave us air to breathe. The author travels from his back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other, and why they came to exist.

'This is an extraordinary fossil' Sir David Attenborough

A work that focuses on the relentless drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost. As health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land and poor nations are forced to export their goods in a cut-throat marketplace. Colin Trudge proposes an alternative, looking at the global food industry and showing how - without resorting to GM crops - corporate barons can be stripped of contr

Explores the life of birds. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, this work offers an account of how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.

In the 1850s and 1860s, growing peas in his monastery garden in Brno in Moravia, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel worked out the basic laws of heredity. Colin Tudge argues that once what Mendel is understood, subsequent advances fall naturally into place and light is thrown on humanity's future.

This is an account and reference source of all creatures, alive and extinct. Using classification to show all the principal groups to which living creatures belong, this takes us into some of the most intriguing and intricate areas of biological philosophy and technique. It is useful for everyone who is interested in the diversity of living things.