By the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.

A concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.

What caused the Civil War? A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible societies.

Includes bibliography, index.

Includes appendices, index.

Shows fantasy baseball fanatics--and those who love the game--how to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand baseball.

Includes bibliography, index.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. The many inter-related ideas and forces that shape the US empire's actions in the Muslim World.

Examines China's place in the world and looks at a range of crucial issues now facing the country, such as the growth (or deterioration) of its economy, the government's ever-delayed democratization, the potential outcomes of a national political crisis, and the possible escalation of a revamped authoritarianism.

Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2010. Raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls’ schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn’t find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country’s powerful NATO-backed warlords. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan’s new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies.

Includes references, index.

Draws together more than three hundred fables, poems and prayers that reveal the spirit of Islamic mysticism.

Essays on militarism, computerese, art, bureaucracy, health, airplane food, bad coffee, taxi drivers, fax machines, porno films, football fans.

By the author of The Kite Runner.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1994; National Book Award for Fiction 1993

Informed that his clay pots and jugs are no longer needed, elderly potter Cipriano applies his craft to the making of ceramic dolls, but his family's subsequent successes are compromised by a terrible discovery.

Objective study of Hugo Chávez, his grassroots socialist movement, and his rise to political power.

Collections from the author's popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, "The Way We Were."