Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

A home by the lake or sea, a refuge by the water's edge, is the romantic dream of almost every homeowner. But the technical and...

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the...

The first book to tell the visual story of the USSR's war against religion of all denominations, from the 1917 revolution to its...

Surveying the last forty years since the end of China's Cultural Revolution, this book redefines contemporary Chinese art by...

Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most...

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888,...

Why stories make us human and how to tell them better.
There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story - but...

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.
In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

Cox Brian, Cohen...

A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.
The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with...

In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the...

Еникеева... , Аляутдин...

This workbook has been specifi cally designed for foreign students of Russian medical schools who study pharmacology. It is...

A comprehensive chronicle of David Hockney’s life and work.
Pop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of...

The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi...

Who would not want to live in a Wes Anderson movie? This is a tribute book to Wes Anderson and the universe he has created. It...

A colorful exploration of the life and work of Gerhard Richter
An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his...

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent...

Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth...

The painterly gestures of personal feelings
Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence,...

Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draughtsman, as well as a...

The last fifteen years of Russian history have profoundly altered Moscow, bringing dramatic changes to the Communist city it was...

Formerly the official residences of the Tsars, the five buildings that comprise the State Hermitage Museum now house one of the...

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles....

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) transcends any period or social milieu: he is one of the world's great masters and though his works...

This is a beautiful gathering of images each representing the universal symbol of love. These amateur photographers have found...

Монография Георгия Викентьевича Зайцева (род. 1937) создана в жанре освоения исторического пространства и посвящена Калининграду....

'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are...

In 1883 Paul Gauguin abandons his prominent banking career and decides that "from now on I will pai nt every day". The co -...

Revisiting three canonical 1970s photobooks that redefined feminism through photography
As feminism gained momentum in 1970s...