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In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%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 ...
-17%Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...
-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%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%Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Pat...
-20%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%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...
-25%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%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%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...
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A collection of stories of inspirational women throughout history who knew their own worth and fought for their dreams despite obstacles on all fronts.
Considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy, the author, Benito Perez Galdos was a prolific Spanish writer who published 31 novels. This novel tells the story of Marianela (sometimes referred to as "Nela"), a poor orphan girl with an ugly face, and her love for Pablo, a blind boy, who also has romantic feelings towards Nela....
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death by suicide, brings the destruction of a war-torn Europe vividly to rise. He feels the need to bear witness to the next generation of what his age has gone through. He realizes that his past is "out of reach". Zweig makes it clear that...
The classic tale of Emma Bovary, a woman who yearns for romance and luxury, but is instead married to a man with a second-rate medical degree and little ambition. Madame Bovary's attempts to escape the banality of her married life through adulterous affairs and voracious spending sprees with devastating consequences.
Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War...
A collection of mystery stories by a classic British author well-known for his exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives.
Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.
A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski. The book takes into account the post-war political landscape to discuss the meaning and place of liberty and freedom in the global context and includes some undelivered lectures by economist and political theorist, Harold Laski.
Somali translation of "Dead Aid," by the pre-eminent Zambian economist and author known for her analysis of macroeconomics and global affairs. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's...
The classic tale of buccaneers and buried gold for teen and adult readers. Read it again or for the first time.
Number 22 in Balzac's collective works known as The Human Comedy. This tragic, yet brilliant novel tells the story of thirty-year-old Julie, an intelligent, sensitive woman who is married to a man not worthy of her. Balzac draws a portrait of a miserable marriage and life brought about by incorrect choices and inequalities of the day.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2000, the novel features the elderly Iris Chase Griffen reviewing her life and, in particular, her relationship with her sister Laura, whose premature death in the 1940s affords her iconic status as the author of a scandalous novel. This is Atwood's tenth novel and beat five other authors on that year's shortlist...