Grandpa stories

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..

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

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..

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

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..

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..