Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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In the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us...

Humanity’s embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange – whether it’s goods, ideas or...

Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.

The puzzles of...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and...

We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In this essential book, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle...

A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.

In public estimation, sloths have...

Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion...

The official account – complete with full-colour illustrations – of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government’s...

Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it...

Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

Pain is a universal human experience, but we understand very little about the mechanics behind it. We hurt ourselves, we feel...

When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering...

'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age...

More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic...

New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

Busting the Diabetes Myth provides an effective and evidence-based approach to guide people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes...

From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed ‘the most daring and delightful novelist of his...

Sport psychologist Dr Josephine Perry spends her life working with exceptional performers. She has identified ten psychological...

P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has...

Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of...

At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division – ‘Spearhead’ – thought their tanks...

The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few...

When is the last time you were stung by a wasp? Or were followed by a cloud of midges? Or saw a butterfly? All these normal...

In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was...