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

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

The author presents a timeline and notes on his experiences of the atrocities and horror committed on civilians by warring clan m...

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?"  ...

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

The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German.  This is his debut memoir, writte...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...

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