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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

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

This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

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

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