Culture

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 WWII..

Available in Arabic for the first time, this book presents a groundbreaking and accessible overview of human history and its place..

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 n..

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 20th century classic by the great William Kelley Wright.  Known for its presentation of philosophers and their theories in easy ..

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

A biography of Abraham Lincoln who grew from his simple childhood in Kentucky to become the second president of the United States. ..

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..

The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in m..

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