Celestial Bodies

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?"  F..

American universities have been credited, among other things, with the discovery of the laser, GPS, MRI, radar, and Viagra. Here the&nb..

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

The five-act satirical play by Niccolo Machiavelli was first published in 1524.  Now in Arabic, it tells the story of a beaut..

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..

H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in ..

A delightful story collection by the beloved, award-winning Chinese children's author, Zheng Chunhua. These stories center around a lit..

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

Eritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up under..

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowe..

The iconic writer's engaging memoir offers entertaining stories and provocative insights on sex, marriage, aging, feminism, and motherh..

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

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

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..

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

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 ea..