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The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%By the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, this is the haunting novella, based on the true story of a Jewish teenager in WWI...
-10%A deceptively simple love story by one of Germany's finest writers, this is the story of Adam and his girlfriend, Evelyn. The year is ...
-10%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...
-17%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%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-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%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...
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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.