Collins Classics – The Invisible Man (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
History of science
Collins New Naturalist Library – Climate and Weather (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 115)
Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.
Collins New Naturalist Library – A History of Ornithology (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 104)
What did we know about birds a thousand years ago, and how has our understanding developed? ‘A History of Ornithology’ offers a complete history of birdwatching in Britain, a classic for every nature lover’s bookshelf. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.
Science: A History in 100 Experiments
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond.
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain
The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.
The Mysterious World of the Human Genome
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work?
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
‘Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, ‘Falling Upwards’ is really a history of hope and fantasy – and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight’ New Republic, Best Books of 2013
Of Moths and Men: Intrigue, Tragedy and the Peppered Moth (Text Only)
This edition does not include illustrations.
The tale of a flagrant scientific fraud and its cover-up, and scientific incompetence behind the most important paradigm in evolutionary biology: Charles Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution’.
Fingerprints: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity (Text Only)
This edition does not include illustrations.
A fascinating exploration into the history of science and crime. In the tradition of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, FINGERPRINTS is the story of the race to discover the secrets trapped in the whorls and arches found on the palm of one’s hand.