Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

We spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution is rewiring our sense of what it means to be human. Smartphones...

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it,...

A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.
A barber who made $150 million in...

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Cave... , Rowell...

An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our...

A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

Haunts of...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

'Elegant and enjoyable...a thoughtful exploration of the twin delights of the piano and the Parisian life' Express on...

A meditation on running, nature and the pursuit of freedom in the modern world.

Running is not just a sport. It reconnects us...