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

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

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...

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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

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

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

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

The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

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

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?"  ...

A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

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

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

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