Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Is my experience real?

Or just a movie in my head?

Am I no more than a super computer?

You are your brain,...

Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve? Why do roosters deceive hens?

We tend to assume that we are the only living things able...

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

Under the guiding...

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...

Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the...

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...

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...