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

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

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...

A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...

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?"  ...

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

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 collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...

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...

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...

American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...

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

When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.

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...