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

An exploration and critique of the Somali criminal justice system.

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its plac...

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

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

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

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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...

A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a li...

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

Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner p...

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

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.