The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

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

This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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

Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

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

H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

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

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

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

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

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...

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