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

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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...

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

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 delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...

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

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...