Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative...

More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before...

Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and...

We're told that universities are our greatest driver of social mobility. But it's a lie.

The Inequality Machine is a damning...

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and...

Ross Emma, Moffat Baz

Understand your body to empower yourself for life.
This book will help you create healthy habits that consider all aspects of...

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described...

Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant...

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring cast and crew interviews, photos,...

Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent,...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to...

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection...

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on...

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up...

Let Jamie show you how to save money, time and resources in the kitchen with wholesome and delicious recipes in Save with...

These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part…
We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer,...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...