Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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...

Two tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverb

Despite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared...

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...

'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I...

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...

On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus driver's daughter...

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...

An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day...

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...