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

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

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...

Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...

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

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

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...

The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...

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

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...

A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

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

Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...