Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that...

In the last few years the world has changed in unexpected ways. The power of radical ideas and groups is growing. What was once...

We all have ten types of human in our head.

They're the people we become when we face life's most difficult decisions. We want...

'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant...

English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never...

The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She...

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.
The Dark Net is just a click away.
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a...

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to coincide with the 800th...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...

A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
A barber who made $150 million in...

Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

Writing about real lives takes...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times

What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us?...

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria....

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?

Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...