Sensible Senses

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

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

The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of..

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

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

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..

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