20th Century History

Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...

'There is nobody better on climate change and international negotiations.' - Rt. Hon. Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero 'I have nothing but the deepest...

'There is nobody better on climate change and international negotiations.' - Rt. Hon. Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero 'I have nothing but the deepest...

Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...

This is a story of the vainglorious and often brutal attempt to control and harvest the Earth's most precious resource.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and...

Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...

A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst...

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