Notes on a Nervous Planet

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

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..

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

It received rave reviews in both the New York Times and The Guardian. The story goes like this: at a lovely dinner pa..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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 ..

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..

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