Little Houses

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choic..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

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..

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

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

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