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The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..
-15%Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowe..
-15%The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..
-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 ea..
-17%Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..
-20%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choic..
-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 of..
-17%It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..
-15%Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place..
-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 WWII..
-10%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&nb..
-20%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..
-15%Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism an..
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil societ..
-15%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy ..
-20%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his films..
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The classic African novel by Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, was first published in 1958. It tells the story of pre-colonial life in southeast Nigeria and the arrival of the Europeans in the late 19th century.
The third book in the heartwarming, classic Anne Shirley saga finds Anne turning eighteen years old and attending college while deciding if she is truly ready for love
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm, where she makes an indelible impression on those around her.
Anne has reached the age of sixteen, and begins teaching at the Avonlea school, but finds she still has much in common with her pupils
In this experimental work, the lives of three related families are told through short character sketches from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s and arranged in alphabetical order. It is a kind of biographical dictionary where the individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. As the...
Detective Harry Hole wakes up with a hangover and his hands and clothes covered in blood -- blood that isn't his. This will become more a nightmare than he could ever imagine.
An NPR Science Desk correspondent challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are being used effectively throughout the modern world.
In this classic work of practical formulas, Carnegie helps you discover how to eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately, reduce financial worries, avoid fatigue and keep looking young, add one hour a day to your waking life, find yourself and be yourself.
The classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen in which a man with a magic flute rids the town of its rats, but when the mayor refuses to pay the fee, the man takes all the children.
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, the library where she works has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially...
Aventus, a small furry gerboa, has a grand adventure climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with Qatari mountain climber Fahad Badar. Aventus is used to the desert life so climbing a mountain in ice and snow is a real adventure. Over seven days they climb from one camp to another going higher and higher. Will they reach the summit? FYI: Fahad...
The compelling story of Soloman Northup, born a free man in the north who was abducted and sold into slavery in the deep south where he endured and survived 12 years as a slave.