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Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism a...
-15%Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-...
-20%Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...
-15%A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban constr...
-20%Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...
-20%Two friends, Serafin and Plum, and a hamster named Hercules, find themselves in a strange town where they are not welcome because they...
-15%A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright. Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy...
-20%In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...
-12%On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...
-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 collection of heartfelt thoughts and bits of wisdom from the Dalai Lama on a variety of subjects and suitable for everyone regardles...
-20%Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth. Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...
-15%The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524. Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beau...
-10%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%Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the e...
-17%Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place ...
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A new biography of the founder and first president of modern Turkey by professor, Turkish historian and author, Ilber Ortayli. Includes illustrations and bibliographical references.
The story of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks, the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. You're never too young to make a difference!
A Burmese tale about the daughter of an artisan who is nicknamed Princess Lacquer for her skill in the traditional methods of decorating objects. The tyrannical king forces her to work for him and she carves secret messages of her suffering in her artistic decoration.
The New York Times bestselling novel about two men who were childhood friends in China at the end of the 19th century. Separated by the Boxer Rebellion, each boy grows up following a different path. As grown men, they are finally reunited in America. By American novelist, Pearl Buck, who was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize...
This book traces the origins and history of coffee including current cultivation practices and the need for finding a more genetically diverse coffee plant.
A collection of thirty stories, one for each day of the month, to read out loud to your kindergartner.
George Orwell, well-known as an essayist, journalist and novelist, was also a poet. This is a compilation of his poetic works.
The best known novel by Maxim Gorky is based on true events during the Russian revolutionary movement.
The author writes of his childhood and youth in Baghdad when the city was home to a flourishing Jewish community. From 1920 to the early 1950s more than a third of the city's population were Jews whose customs had an influence on Baghdad's cultural and commercial life.
A collection of writings by the British philosopher, historican, social reformer, and pacifist.
The semi-autographical novel by the beautiful and high-spirited American writer, socialite, and painter. It was written in just six weeks while the author was a patient in a sanatorium, and is considered a classic novel of the woman's expeirence in American society during the golden Jazz Age.
The famous British philosopher, logician, writer, and Nobel laureate shares his thoughts about war, religion, happiness, the future of mankind, and more.