Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

Discover the era of William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I through the sharp, informative and hilarious eyes of Ian Mortimer.

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This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in...

Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff,...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical...

Adams... , C...

Join Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an...

Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while....

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make...

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like...

As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...

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...

Machiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power

'It is far safer to be feared than loved...'

The Prince...

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...