Women and girls: don't settle for being ordinary

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

The delightful debut novel by Brooke Davis is now available in Arabic.  It is the story of a little red-haired girl who has lost h..

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

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

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

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

Terry Eagleton, a renowned literary theorist, critic and prolific writer, in this book explores the rise of religious fundamentalism an..

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..

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