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 ...

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

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, presents an insider's guide to crafting the perfect talk. Discover the power of the spoken word to ch...

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

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

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

The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student...

Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

The definitive biography of the 45th President of the United States presents the life of Donald Trump from his boyhood to his time in ...

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

This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one sin...

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

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

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

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

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