Peril at End House

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..

Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism an..

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

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 ea..

Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his ..

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

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

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

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..

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

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books ..

The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of..

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.