History

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

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

The eminent psychologist and Holocaust survivor guides us through a universal journey of redemption and healing, after her experiences in Auschwitz

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

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.

A history of the Jews - from Moses to the present day - by one of the world's finest historians, shot through with his own sense of what it means to have a Jewish history.

A little book containing so much: a novella, history, eyewitness reports, Maori translation, verse and images.

From the internationally bestselling author of Zealot comes a fascinating, provocative and meticulously researched history of humanity’s relationship with the divine.

Throughout history our societies have worked through networks - of information, friendship, professions, families - Niall Ferguson's new bestseller is a history of this remarkable aspect of human existence, from the networks that first allowed us to explore the oceans to today's hyper-linked world.

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 bestselling field guide to the twenty-first century by one of its most celebrated observers.

A stunning tribute to aviation in New Zealand – a celebration of our planes and people.

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

A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the greatest public intellectual of our times.

The New York Times bestseller and Amazon.com #1 bestselling post-truth history of America

The prize-winning bestselling historian delivers the first authoritative general account for thirty years.

A journey to New Zealand's most fascinating, wild and isolated islands.

The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.

A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

Over 350 historical moments and movements from the Prehistoric world to the the EU crisis.

An unputdownable real-life political thriller set in the House of Commons.

A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history - this is Beloved for the 21st century.

Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Mark Zuckerberg has made Better Angels of our Nature his next book club pick.