Text in Arabic. Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and th...

Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palesti...

This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination w...

Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fi...

Sometimes playful but always passionate, Imagining Peace offers a glimpse into the private world of a quirky systems reformer. The great-granddaugh...

First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...

First published in 1962, "In Defense of Freedom" examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. In Fr...

The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, ...

This volume presents a comprehensive index to the entire series of 'The Collected Works of James M Buchanan'. Included is an annotated copy of the ...

Renowned for his 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' and 'Reflections on History', Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) has been described as "the mos...

From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices s...

Speech is a great asset to those who can use it well. One can please or hurt another person with language. A word can heal a broken house, or it ca...

Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. T...

This is the first literary book to emerge from bike-punk subculture. Author Ethan Clark -- who has passed the time riding bikes, drinking too much,...