Gill Arbuthnott

From the Big Bang to the abundance of life that surrounds us today, this beautiful book - the third by the award-winning duo Gill Arbuthnott and Chris Nielsen - is the story of evolution, from the very first cells to ourselves. How old exactly is the Earth? How do we know what was here before us? Are we still evolving?...

Since the beginning of human history, we have been at war with an invisible enemy: microbes. These tiny organisms can spread terrible diseases. Ramses V, Pharaoh of Egypt, may have died of smallpox; in 1918, a new illness called the Spanish Flu killed 50 million people in 18 months; and in the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed more than...

Seen from space, Earth is a swirl of blue and white. The blue is Earth's oceans, which cover 70% of its surface... yet the ocean is the most unexplored region of our planet. Now more than ever, we need to learn more about the ocean's secrets and protect it as much as we can. From Shore to Ocean Floor is...