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Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...
-20%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...
-17%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 ...
-17%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German. This is his debut memoir, writte...
-15%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
-15%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...
-15%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
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To be alive means that you have survived, and that the cause of your existence has survived before, a chain of survivals that extends back to the beginning of creation, to the descendants of Noah's sons, whose ark landed on a mountaintop to engage in procreation, war, and killing. It's a mathematical equation that appears simple on the surface,...
The writings presented in this volume shed tremendous light, both on the character of T. E. Lawrence and the current situation in the Middle East. Despite being written several decades ago, the thoughts of Lawrence of Arabia remain remarkably pertinent. This collection includes Lawrence's wartime reports from the desert, along with later...
Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this...
A novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. You experience, along with protagonists, Rabih and Kirsten, the first flush of infatuation, the effortlessness of falling into romantic love, and the course of life...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, this novel captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader.
A readable and practical guide to communicating boundaries to very young children and solving early discipline problems to set children up for success.
A human African journey of fear that Moise and her children take in search of their existence. They ask for nothing more than the simplest things: to have faces in this world. Far from the world of organized offices and perfect homes, there is the wilderness and its people. With them, we tour the countries of southern Africa on the back of a...
Everything has a price, and the price of summoning a group of jinn to fulfill a human's will is very high.
The Wall Street Journal best-selling author reveals the steps to getting unstuck and back onto the path of being awesome. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging because things like fear only bother you when you do work that matters.
Salam lost his chess match and felt sad and defeated, but his grandmother gave him a box that would make him either a winner or a winner.What's inside the box?
Where does inspiration come from? A beautiful ode to language, writing, and books.
In this picture-book puzzle, the ever-changing illustrations create a story about a bird that is born without wings. The bird's desire to fly is emphasized through various geometric forms and colours. There are only a few words and sentences in the book, but the subtle language of art and overlapping layers of illustrations give the story an...