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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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..

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..

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..

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

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

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..