A Somali translation of "Liberty in the Modern State" by Harold Laski.  The book takes into account the post-war political landsc...

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

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

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

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 ...

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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