Peace for body and soul

Nietzsche's masterful philosophical narrative about Zarathustra, who after years of meditation comes down from a mountain to offer his ..

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

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is los..

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

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

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..

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

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

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