An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...

A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...

Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...

A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

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...

A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...

Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...

When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.