Journalist Dalal Mawad investigates modern Lebanon from the port explosion and civil war to the role of Hezbollah and Israel - and weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity, told through the stories of the women who survive.
An entertaining guide to history’s most fascinating philosophers – from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir – which seeks to help us answer life’s big questions.
Drawing from a life shared with her partner and their cats, Rebecca van Laer shows that cats’ supposed faults – their unreliability, laziness, and irreverence – are central to the joy of being a “cat person.”
A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.
This beautiful book contains over 200 selections from the wisdom of several of Father Keating's most popular and significant works, including the best selling Open Mind, Open Heart.