Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

The revolutionary guide to re-thinking and combating stress from the bestselling author of The 4 Pillar Plan.

"It's thought...

Spall... , Xander...

How are you spending your most valuable hours? The first few choices you make each morning can unlock greater productivity,...

'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.'

Nairn's London...

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not...

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful,...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

'In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart ...'

A deeply moving and unforgettable portrait...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the...

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an...

Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage...

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual...

The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of...