Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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...

The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created?

In Self Comes...

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...

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French...

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...

Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work...

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...

Everything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science.

Infinity is...

Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake...

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

'He has...

'Blackburn rescues the man from inside the madman. She redeems a lost life' - The Times

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the...

The pre-eminent study of the six wives of Henry VIII by a master historian.

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded,...

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,...