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A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the award-winning creative studio and pattern consultancy.

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment

100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times.

Selected by Bill Gates for his 2019 Summer Reading Recommendations, Jared Diamond's visionary theory on how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.

This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand.

The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage and escape from a Nazi death camp

The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust.

The dark clouds returned and gathered about the boy. His eyes grew distant, and he began to tremble. He heard not only shells exploding, but the cries of dying men . . . He was stumbling over churned earth, looking into the face of an officer, bloodied red as the poppies, ripped apart in the Flanders mud . . .

A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century.

Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask.

So begins The Histories, the very first work of history and one of the most dramatic accounts of the ancient world ever written, brought to life again in Tom Holland's gripping new translation.

The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics.

A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians.

Ferguson's seminal bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire.

As the Soviet Union becomes ever more distant in our memory, Revolutionary Russia is an invaluable reminder of why this one, hideously violent and callous state became for so long the great focus of the hopes and fears of much of humankind.

From the author of French Revolutions and Gironimo! comes a hideously over-ambitious challenge on doomed machinery. Tim Moore cycles the length of the old Iron Curtain on a shopping bike.

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness.