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Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%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%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%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...
-15%Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is lo...
-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%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
-15%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...
-17%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
-12%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
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This lush adaptation for children tells the story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, a little boy who is raised on a desert island by an antelope who feeds him with her milk. He grows up learning the languages of the animals and through his observation of the animals and the enviornment he gains great knowledge in natural science and philosophy. The original...
The story of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks, the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. You're never too young to make a difference!
A Burmese tale about the daughter of an artisan who is nicknamed Princess Lacquer for her skill in the traditional methods of decorating objects. The tyrannical king forces her to work for him and she carves secret messages of her suffering in her artistic decoration.
Six colorful bilingual stories in one picture book. Each story is about a member of a boy's family -- mother, father, brother, sister, grandpa, and grandma.
The New York Times bestselling novel about two men who were childhood friends in China at the end of the 19th century. Separated by the Boxer Rebellion, each boy grows up following a different path. As grown men, they are finally reunited in America. By American novelist, Pearl Buck, who was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize...
This book traces the origins and history of coffee including current cultivation practices and the need for finding a more genetically diverse coffee plant.
A collection of thirty stories, one for each day of the month, to read out loud to your kindergartner.
An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.
George Orwell, well-known as an essayist, journalist and novelist, was also a poet. This is a compilation of his poetic works.
The best known novel by Maxim Gorky is based on true events during the Russian revolutionary movement.
The author writes of his childhood and youth in Baghdad when the city was home to a flourishing Jewish community. From 1920 to the early 1950s more than a third of the city's population were Jews whose customs had an influence on Baghdad's cultural and commercial life.
A collection of writings by the British philosopher, historican, social reformer, and pacifist.