The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a
novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the ...
In these connected stories, Danit Brown introduces Osnat Greenberg: a slightly fatalistic, darkly funny, and
utterly winning heroine who is struggling to find her place in the world.In the 1980s, Osnat moves with her American father and Israeli mother from ...
In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's
greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters ...
American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class
of medication. Charles Barber explores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush ...
In his first collection of short stories, Barnes explores the narrow body of water containing
the vast sea of prejudice and misapprehension which lies between England and France with acuity humor, and compassion. For whether Barnes's English characters come to ...
In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on
the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing
film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood ...
Winner of the José Saramago Literary AwardIn an unnamed Portuguese village, against a backdrop of
severe rural poverty, two generations of men and women struggle with love, violence, death, and—perhaps worst of all—the inescapability of fate. A pair of twins conjoined ...