Calm: the magic of sleep

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

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

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

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

The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, ..

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