Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest spy network in Vichy France during World War II.

In 1941, a...

What do people with a particularly long life-span eat?
How can you lose weight efficiently?
Are illnesses in old age...

Frantumaglia invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. The bestselling Italian author of My Brilliant Friend opens her desk...

Moscow to Paris in a sidecar: an epic, crazy 2,500 mile road trip following Napoleon’s retreat
October 1812, Napoleon enters...

Are psychopaths 'evil' and untreatable, or do they suffer from a form of mental illness comparable to schizophrenia? Do they have...

What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? Or smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your...

A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a...

War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and...

For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake....

Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a...

Hare Brian, Вудс...

What is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect… or something much nicer?

From...

In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was...

If we can save the salmon, we can save the world.
Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an...

Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth...

The history of the world is the history of great women.

Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science....

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?

It's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular...

What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel?

Follow Mary Roach as...

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic 'prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a...

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of...

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine – meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world

In the remote...

Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Wondering what to eat with a special bottle? Let The Wine Dine Dictionary be your...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of...

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In...

As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work -...

Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary moment in 1960s Britain — as music began to reflect a great cultural...

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare’s life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old...