Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other...

Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and...

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...

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma;...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'

James Baldwin's breakthrough...

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

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home

James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of...

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...

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds.
For as long as we've studied the mind,...

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

The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city

We live in a world that is now...

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in...

This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of...

Marx Karl, Engels...

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited...

This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the...

'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading...

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...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary...

The third book from the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute and internationally bestselling author of The Little Book of...

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

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this...

The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...