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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%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-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 story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...
-20%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...
-15%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...
-15%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...
-17%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
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Presents an historical overview of Vikings and their legends including maps and other illustrations.
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones...
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. In London, the year is 1754 and six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told that Clara has...
Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale about a fisherman who catches a "golden fish" that promises to fulfill any wish in exchange for its freedom.
Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men...
Offers couples principles from attachment theory and cognitive neuroscience to help them to please and soothe their partners, quickly resolve common pitfalls and conflicts, and easy ways to increase feelings of comfort and security.
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the...
Academic writing is characterized by supporting an original idea through proofs or arguments, the book focuses on the “logic” of writing, that is, on the reasoning we use for structuring ideas, paragraphs, and papers...the reasoning mechanisms that we use when we develop and organize our ideas, connect them with other ideas, and...
This historical novel takes place Ottoman Egypt in the 16th century during the reigh of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and describes the social and political life at the time.
Big nuggets of golden wisdom that are as applicable today as they were a century ago. Based on interviews with famous rags-to-riches tycoons like Carnegie, Ford, and Edison, they reveal proven, effective paths to success that truly work for the average person--yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
When dreams vanish from the sleeping world, everyone apologizes for this cruelty and asks our friend Helem (Dream) to return and fill the place with love and security once again. This is a poem in the shape of a book which is dedicated to dreamers and highlights the important roles of love and dreams in creating peace and serenity.
Monkey is having a slumber party at his house and he invited his three best friends to sleep over. There will be a pillow fight and games. It will be so fun! But when it’s time to go to bed, Monkey wants to keep playing. Will his friends convince him to go to sleep?