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A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%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%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
-20%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
-15%By the author of the bestselling novel, A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture, this illustrated novel for young readers...
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?" ...
-17%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
-20%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%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%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...
-10%A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...
-10%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
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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.