History

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 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

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

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

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 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.

A fearless and ground-breaking investigation of the government-sanctioned land grab at Parihaka, and one of New Zealand's most influential, must-read histories.

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

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 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 . . .

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 panoramic exploration of how belief shapes us, from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects.

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.

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

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.

A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian.

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

A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz.

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.