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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%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%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%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...
-10%This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...
-20%Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story:...
-20%The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights ...
-15%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-20%A collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in t...
-20%The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused o...
-17%A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States.&nbs...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010. In a courageous a...
-20%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&n...
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A no-nonsense guide to differentiating between toxic and positive behaviors among your friends, romantic partners, family members and colleagues. This book can help you decode the trickiest of situations and put an end to unnecessary drama.
Few people are aware of their own body language, and even fewer are able to control it. Body postures, movements, voice use and facial expressions reveal us. Did you know, for example, that enthusiastic body language can contribute to success? The more clearly you express excitement and joy, the more it rubs off on others. With this book you can...
Pieces together the unknown history of the Amazigh.
A series of engaging, interconnected literary essays. In each chapter, the author encounters a famous figure—writers, artists, musicians, architects, doctors, and others, both living and deceased—at a restaurant he designed in real life.
Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings of Plato and Darwin to the paintings of Picasso to modern medical journals, this book unearths the multiple meanings and uses of tears.
Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor, and film theorist. He was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
Why are the presidents of the film industry always close to power when they are appointed? Why do we meet few workers but many marginalized people in the films? Why does My Fair Lady or Pretty Woman end well? These are all questions answered in this book, which reveals the tight network established between Hollywood, the creative pole, New...
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great...
Presents coffee as a commodity that ties the world together, from the coffee producers and pickers who tend the plantations in tropical nations, to the middlemen and processors, to the consumers who drink coffee without ever having to think about how the drink reached their hands. Bibliographical references in English.
The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, the author invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth.
Iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell lays out a rationalist prescription for living a happy life, including the importance of cultivating interests outside oneself and the dangers of passive pleasure.
Rousseau is known for his contributions to political philosophy and moral psychology as well as his influence on later thinkers. The concern dominating his writings is to find a way of preserving human freedom even as humans become increasingly dependent on one another. This work purports that an individual can only be free under the law by...