Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The Economist

China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies,...

Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the...

The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from...

A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers.

The British love their...

From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and...

Vigna Paul, Casey...

1988 saw the birth of the internet. 2008 gave us bitcoin. Today, cybercurrencies are changing the world we live in. What would a...

Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time.

A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy...

In 1757, a down-and-out Irish poet, the head waiter at the Shakespear's Head Tavern in Covent Garden, and a celebrated London...

The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the...

From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last...

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her...

It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.

The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the...

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes,...

Are you ready to be your best self at work?

Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this...

How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves?

Providing a cover for our...

Polson... , Scott...

What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us?

Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and...

What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave...

Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact...

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds...

Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative,...

Great nature writing needs to be informative, detailed, accurate, lyrical, and, above all, to instil a sense of gratitude and...

The Wild Life is John Lewis-Stempel's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges,...

The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An...

The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone.

Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using,...

The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month,...

This is not a parenting manual. This is real life.

The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections,...

Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the...

Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn’t...