History

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

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.

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 incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians.

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

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.

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.

Anne Salmond's brilliant study of first contact between Maori and European explorers - a trail-blazing achievement in narrative New Zealand history.

A cinematic, propulsive and frightening climate tour of our near future - coming much faster than you think.

The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions.

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

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.

Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

A powerful, moving account of life in Damascus, and a story of how the power of music can unite people in the face of conflict.