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A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultu...
-12%The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic. It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost ...
-12%When cholera breaks out in the village, Sandra and Pato learn about treatment and prevention.
-15%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...
-15%The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...
-20%In this unique self-portrait that includes rare interviews, the filmmaker takes us behind the scenes and onto the sets of all his film...
-35%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...
-15%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 ...
-17%In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choi...
-15%This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil socie...
-15%Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his...
-15%George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Ova...
-17%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?" ...
-17%H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...
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What is happiness? Hermann Hesse explored the meaning of this word, which he also loved for its sound, throughout his life. What he himself experienced as blissful was rarely of a material nature – for him, the deepest source of happiness lay in the impressions we owe to the receptiveness of our senses, the capacity to fall in love and...
An overview of authors and writings that interweaves personal expression with written artistry.
Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? The author traces the rise and fall of Islamic states through the biographies of political and military leaders who worked to secure peace or expand their...
In an effort to save her life, Scheherazade captivates King Shahryhar with a story every night that ends in a cliffhanger so the King will come to her the next night to hear more of these astonishing tales. Night after night for more than 1,000 nights, she regales him with mythical love stories and swashbuckling adventures until the King falls...
This book includes texts of some of the most prominent Western thinkers, writers, critics, and artists who contributed to the establishment and formulation of Western modernity over the three hundred years spanning from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Philosophy, art, music, sociology, psychology, and more from...
The rare synthesis between philosopher-theologian and artist. Here is the intellectual autobiography of Paul Tillich, whose lifelong search for the truth, the reality and the meaning of God lies a the very root of the ecumenical and existential revolution of our times.
An Arabic translation of Goethe's classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther." This is the story of the sensitive and passionate Werther and his extreme response to unrequited love presented in a collection of letters written by Werther to his friend Wilhelm. Not so much a tale of love and romance, it is believed to be a chronicle mental health...
A well-known Lebanese Christian priest and linguist known for his writings on Arabic linguistics, history and literature. He authored a traditional Arabic language dictionary in 1883, and became the first librarian at the Baghdad Peace Library that would later become the Iraq National Library. This is a book of Arabic folktales.
A collection of writings by the British philosopher, historican, social reformer, and pacifist.
The famous British philosopher, logician, writer, and Nobel laureate shares his thoughts about war, religion, happiness, the future of mankind, and more.
The concept and meaning of love is explored through the writings of various philosophers from Sartre to Heidegger and Tolstoy to Einstein.
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles story of Oedipus into a major motion picture. Pasolini add a modern-day prologue and epilogue to the famous myth as well as emphasizing the innocence of Oedipus. Pasolini was inspired by Sophocles contrast between total innocence and the obligation to...