In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

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

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

The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...

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

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...

A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?"  ...

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...

A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...

In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

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

Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...

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...