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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.

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

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

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

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

The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment

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

A whole community deported across Soviet Russia, a rice farmer and his wife separated through time, a young art student searching for her identity and for love . . .

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 . . .

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 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.

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

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.

From 'the master storyteller of the human race' (Daily Mail), a brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.

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

A NO. 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: The devastating story of the lives of Jack the Ripper's victims, told in full, for the first time: 'Powerful and shaming' Guardian; 'Deeply affecting' Daily Mail

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.