Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

English Food reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy

While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, and about to become a father for the first time, Rob Cowen finds himself in...

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 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...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

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...

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...