In this book – part social history and part practical guide – writer and pebble collector Christopher Stocks unearths the sometimes surprising story of our love-affair with pebbles

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Alejandro Colás is Professor of International Relations at Birkbeck

Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs

nature’s resurgence grounded him

Planta Sapiens William Cobbing In this book – partHave you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to watch things that move, that do something. But in fact, plants are doing a great deal too plants behave, as animals do they are just doing it on a very different timescale. They cannot move about freely like animals do, so they grow into space instead and make new chemicals to interact with the species around them. Not only that, but what causes them to do these