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Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd. He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...
-15%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-15%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
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This book includes texts of some of the most prominent Western thinkers, writers, critics, and artists who contributed to the establishment and formulation of Western modernity over the three hundred years spanning from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Philosophy, art, music, sociology, psychology, and more from...
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great...
The rare synthesis between philosopher-theologian and artist. Here is the intellectual autobiography of Paul Tillich, whose lifelong search for the truth, the reality and the meaning of God lies a the very root of the ecumenical and existential revolution of our times.
Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.
Somali translation of "Dead Aid," by the pre-eminent Zambian economist and author known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's...
Rousseau is known for his contributions to political philosophy and moral psychology as well as his influence on later thinkers. The concern dominating his writings is to find a way of preserving human freedom even as humans become increasingly dependent on one another. This work purports that an individual can only be free under the law by...
An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.
An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultures from around the world. Expertly researched by Julius Lips, a well-known anthropologist, this book reveals the foundations of tools, habits, traditions, fire, food, the use of cosmetics and jewelry,...
The controversial lecture, first published in 1896, defends the right to believe in something without proof or evidence of its truth. William James was an influential American philosopher and psychologist who was a leading thinker in the late nineteenth century. He is considered by many to be the "Father of American psychology."
The highly respected and well-known Iraqi social scientist, Ali Wardi, was a keen follower and student of the sociological theories developed by the great Muslim historian and author of the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun. In this book, Wardi analyzes Khaldun's theories of "ilm al-'umran" (the science of culture) and the relationship between human...
The popular, and enlightening, book about the characteristics of crowd psychology and its impact on the individual.