Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of English life explored.

Spanning some seven centuries,...

Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on...

What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out...

Over the last sixty years,...

Doctors are the people we turn to in our darkest moments. We trust them with our lives. But what does that stress do to a...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

A wonderfully readable investigation of the origins of the modern garden in 18th-century England. Popular history at its...

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was...

The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation by a major new historian.

This is the first major biography for a...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?

Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September...

Did the Trojan War really happen?

Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

Though they were often ridiculed or...

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal...

The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's...

An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...

'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about.' - Times Literary Supplement

'He has...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

Travels around Italy in search of illusion, national character and goals.


'Delves into the very essence of being a fan,...

'Barrow explains nothing with great clarity, a lovely lightness of touch and enormous erudition' Spectator

How do you begin to...

'Elegant and enjoyable...a thoughtful exploration of the twin delights of the piano and the Parisian life' Express on...