Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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 superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...

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...

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

The widely acclaimed author of The New Black returns with this brilliant exploration of madness

What separates the sane from...

It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.

For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve...

In The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles...

What would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at...

Andrew Rawnsley's bestselling The End of the Party lifts the lid on the second half of New Labour's spell in office.

Through...

Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official...

K2, August 1st, 2008.

Thirty climbers are attempting the summit of the most savage mountain on Earth. They make it. But before...

Robert Penn's It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of...