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This is the true story behind Wall Street legend Richard Dennis, his disciples, the Turtles, and the trading techniques that made them millionaires. What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a...

This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the...

With a new introduction by Wallace Shawn, a classic work of war reportage that describes, with unblinking vision, the systematic leveling of a Vietnamese village by American troops.In January 1967, as President Lyndon Johnson sent more forces to the war...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: believing he was divinely protected, he united warring clans to create an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology,...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay...

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. When No Logo was first published, it...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • A Financial TimesBest Business Book of the Year.“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be...

Digging into the border crisis like never before and connecting it to hot-button issues of inequality, climate change and rightwing radicalism, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is an emotionally moving journalistic powerhouse.A National Bestseller• A...

A harrowing account of surviving the Holocaust, told by the survivor himself. Sparing no detail, this is a day-to-day account of life in a concentration camp, told with empathy, ferocity and surprisingly effective humor.One of the New York Times Book...

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world.Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite...

The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be.   In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on...

Part history, part legend, this is the story of Sundiata Keita: the heroic figure who founded the empire of Mali. A thirteenth-century oral epic, Sundiata sees the full-length tale captured in print for the first time. This is Sundiata, the epic tale of...

The Mayans have long fascinated modern readers with their complex written language, sophisticated mathematics, and advanced astronomy. In Guatemala in 1558, a young Mayan K’iche’ man transcribed what he called a sacred book that “we can...

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been...

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020.Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society.“A master class on how the world works.” —NPR.Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global...

An NPR Best Book of 2024. A Sports Illustrated Best Book of 2024. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Wall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America,...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year.A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge...

Named One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year.A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries,...

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. More than 250 color photos.