Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict,...

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

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

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 collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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