Africans and African Americans in the Holocaust.

The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition (2020) and updated with newly discovered material.A Penguin ClassicMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of...

John Updike’s memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self. These essays together give the inner shape...

The story of a Peruvian Jew, Saul -- an outsider by ethnicity and appearance -- as he is transformed from a conscience-stricken, modern man obsessed with the survival of the pre-modern peoples of the Amazon into a member of the tribe, indeed the tribal...

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Folk tales by told by generations of Beijing story-tellers, compiled by Jin Shoushen. First published by Beijing Publishing House in 1957.

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This book makes an important contribution to the..debate about the functions of ideology in social life. The author sets out to contest the (usu Marxist) view...that capitalist society..maintains and reproduces itself through the effects of a 'dominant...

The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriageNow a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy  Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or...

An intimate look at the natural environment and the human role in it

General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming,...

Kolymsky Heights. A frozen Siberian hell lost in endless night. The perfect location for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is...

Stories deal with values and the quality of life in modern China

“In our imaginations, war is the name we give to the extremes of violence in our lives, the dark dividing opposite of the connecting myth, which we call love. War enacts the great antagonisms of history, the agonies of nations; but it also offers...

In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other...

The autobiography of Cuba's finest poet, whose condemnation by the Castro regime became a cause celebre.

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The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new prefaceTranslated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler.“A brave...