Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by...

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...

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states...

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'.

This extraordinary collection of 100 artists'...

By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the...

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

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to...

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'

Simenon explores the complexity of...

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

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious,...

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight....

A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day, Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin's My...

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.

We are now...

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

Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking...

After spending five years researching and writing about the food of Spain, Claudia Roden has produced this definitive, passionate...

The iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth century

C. L. R. James's...

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

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

The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the...

Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned...

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...

'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'

In 2020, an...

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