Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

A breathtaking, never-before-seen glimpse into life on tour with David Bowie, by the late singer's official tour...

Want to know what your cat is really thinking and doing?
In Kitty Language, animal illustrator Lili Chin explains everything you...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna...

'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne

There is no real...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.

The Playbook is an expose of the...

The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.

How do we build enduring and honest relationships?
How can we discover...

Freud... , Breuer...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time...

In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and...

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...

Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after...

Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to...

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton....