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The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights." 

Brought to you by Penguin. The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst...

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

Perhaps thanks to TV period dramas, the popular imagination may picture the Edwardian era as an idyllic window between the wars, a time of manners and tea on the lawn. But below the surface lies a frenetic and often bizarre age where scientific leaps forward went hand in hand with belief in fairies, and secrets of sex, lies and murder simmered. Across 12 episodes, in this sequel to his Victorian Secrets, Stephen Fry uncovers some of the startling and unexpected hidden histories of the Edwardians.

Bloomsbury presents Humankind by Rutger Bregman, read by Thomas Judd and Rutger Bregman. THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ‘Hugely, highly and happily recommended’ Stephen Fry ‘You should read...

From the New York Times best-selling author, an eye-opening history of the United States’ war on terror across four presidential administrations. 2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. Within days, the United States began...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...

イデオロギーの熱狂が穏やかな日常を飲み込み、国家の破壊と再編をもたらした現代中国最大の転換点、文化大革命の軌跡をわずか二時間で鮮やかに解き明かす歴史ノンフィクション。指導層の冷酷な権力闘争の裏側で、...

王権の栄華と錬金術の神秘、そして市民による血塗られた革命が交錯する千年のヨーロッパ史を、日々の通勤時間でも深い没入感とともに味わえる濃密な都市の伝記として鮮やかに紐解きます。壮大な帝国の都であり、激...

基礎科学の無垢な発見がいかにして大量破壊兵器という後戻りできない歴史の分岐点へと世界を突き動かしたのか、極限状態での人間の意思決定と倫理のせめぎ合いを鮮明に描き出す歴史ドキュメント。通勤の雑踏の中で...

ひとつのルーツを持つ朝鮮半島がいかにして二つの対極的な世界へと引き裂かれたのか、その地政学的な運命とアジア史の深層を紐解く歴史ノンフィクションです。静かで思索的な世界観は、毎日の通勤時間や夜の落ち着...

三千年にわたる民族の離散と再生、そして現在も続く中東紛争の起源を、古代オリエントの砂漠から現代の地政学まで圧倒的なスケールで解き明かす歴史体験です。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を燃やす学習の時間に、複...

熱狂的な投資と信用の膨張がドミノ倒しのように崩壊した1873年、この歴史的な金融危機が暴き出すお金と権力の残酷な力学が、今の社会の成り立ちを浮き彫りにします。通勤電車の窓枠を流れる現代の景色が、19世紀のパ...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."

エジプト文明の周縁という常識を打ち破る古代ナイルの覇者「黒人ファラオ」の栄光から、現代の国家建設の苦悩まで、アフリカ史を揺るがす巨大な興亡の軌跡を描き出します。毎日の通勤のひとときや教養を深めたい静...

国家崩壊の危機と新たなイデオロギーが激突するアジア近代史の巨大な転換点を、重厚かつドラマチックに描き出す歴史ノンフィクションの傑作です。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや、毎日の単調な通勤時間を、激動の二...

絶対的な権力を誇った超大国の終焉は避けられない運命だったのか。ソ連崩壊という20世紀最大の歴史的事件の裏側で交錯した権力闘争と人々の選択を、わずか2時間の濃密な物語として鮮やかに描き出します。通勤中や日...