Non-fiction, Strana 5

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more...

The New York Times bestseller and the definitive portrait of Kurt Cobain--as relevant as ever, as we remember the impact of Cobain on our culture twenty-five years after his...

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities...

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the...

Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley―and the first to set aside the myths and focus on...

A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour...

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium...

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.He recruited a band of eccentric...

Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or...

The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and reading Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the...

Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was...