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

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

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

This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...

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...

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

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

A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...

When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was ...

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

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 ...

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and mother...

A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...