Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly...

How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future...

Collingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession. As a young man, he travelled to Japan and...

Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.

'We are...

Is my experience real?

Or just a movie in my head?

Am I no more than a super computer?

You are your brain,...

The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.

Under the guiding...

Begin the new year with a fresh perspective on economics, capitalism, and the society we live in.

Yanis Varoufakis, world...

Why are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?

If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a...

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. It was Japan’s...

'Warmly entertaining... an endearing account of the search for rare bees' Guardian

A hunt for the world's most elusive bees...

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call ‘parenting’ is a surprisingly new...

An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…

Aristotle was an...

Food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food...

This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre.

It is a story of lunatic failures and...

A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny...

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central...

We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned,...

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies...

A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir.

The tale of how...

Lockdown has been hard on relationships. Put your relationship first in 2021 with this powerful and nuanced guide to new ways of...

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and...

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is the most famous story about any artist in history. But what really...

Understand how our immune system fights disease and enables the body to heal itself.

'Thrilling... Reads like the best kind of...

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...