Babylonian Civilization and Assyria

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a family..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

This thought-provoking book, now available in Arabic, identifies cooperation as the most important challenge faced by civil societ..

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

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

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

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..