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

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

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

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 ...

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

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?"  ...

Genaro Reyes is a student who falls in with the wrong crowd.  He goes on a drinking binge with his "friends" and ends up in a com...

In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

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

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

A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...

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

Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...