Каталог бренда Allen Lane

Regenesis. Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet | From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity Farming is the world's greatest...

Ways of Being. Beyond Human Intelligence | A mind-bending exploration of non-human intelligence, and how it holds the keys to our continuing life on earth What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it so...

The Aristocracy of Talent. How Meritocracy Made the Modern World | Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of histor...

The Ruin of All Witches. Life and Death in the New World | In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. Peo...

Reality+. Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy | In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-reno...

A Duty of Care. Britain Before and After Covid | One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain The 'duty of care' whic...

Accomplishment. How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things | An inspiring and practical guide to achieving bold ambitions Michael Barber has spent many years advising governments, businesses and ...

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them. A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity | What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, l...

What's Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions | The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something...

Shutdown. How Covid Shook the World's Economy | From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now When the news first beg...

How To Prevent the Next Pandemic | The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can...

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness | One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics transforms the way ...

The Experience Machine. How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality | A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds. For as long as we've studied the mind, we've bel...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need | In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how...

Bismarck's War. The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe | Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napole...

1964. Eyes of the Storm | 'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.' In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs tak...

Osebol. Voices from a Swedish Village | Near the river Klaralven, snug in the dense forest landscape of northern Varmland, lies the secluded village of Osebol. It is a quiet place: one where relations...

The Global Merchants. The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty | The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschild...

France on Trial. The Case of Marshal Petain | One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked th...

Horizons. A Global History of Science | A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to...

White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism | The International Bestseller 'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricte...

The Book in the Cathedral. The Last Relic of Thomas Becket | From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The...

Serious Money. Walking Plutocratic London | London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up th...

Revolutionary Spring. Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 | There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city after city,...

Atoms and Ashes. From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima | Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters In 2011, ...

Beyond the Wall. East Germany, 1949-1990 | In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to ...

Allergic. How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World | An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decades Hay ...

Emotional. The New Thinking about Feelings | We've been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as important to ...

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World. Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms | An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk Savvy Is m...

Worn. A People's History of Clothing | A finely spun history of clothes and where they come from Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool: through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser illum...

The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 1. From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust | A major new celebration of the French short story The short story has a rich tradition in French liter...

American Whitelash. The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time | From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cycles of racial violence in America Barack Obama's elec...

Elusive. How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass | The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at ...

Portable Magic. A History of Books and their Readers | Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship ...

Anaximander. And the Nature of Science | Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens above and the Earth b...

Nasty, Brutish, and Short. Adventures in Philosophy with Kids | A funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and why the smallest people have the answers to the biggest questions 'Anyone can do philoso...

The Middle Kingdoms. A New History of Central Europe | Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From...

Edible Economics. A Hungry Economist Explains the World | Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For de...

The Climate Book | We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossi...

The Facemaker. One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I | The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in t...

Otherlands. A World in the Making | This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds...

Leadership. Six Studies in World Strategy | Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world 'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this comp...

Helgoland | In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walkin...

The World According to Colour. A Cultural History | A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated broadcaster and art historian James Fox 'This book is a triumph. James Fox's passionat...

The Tyranny of Merit What s Become of the Common Good | Категория: прикладная и научно-популярная литература, на английском языке.