Prisoner of mirrors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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