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."

Set in Taliban-controlled Kabul, following two couples whose lives intersect under a regime of oppression and arbitrary violence.

Allied campaigns that brought about the defeat of the Axis powers in the Second World War.

Picks up the story where the Browning poem and other tellings of The Pied Piper of Hamelin leave off. Penelope is now 101 years old, but as a child she was struck deaf on her eleventh birthday, the day the Pied Piper stole the town’s children. Spared that fate, she accepts the quest to find the evil piper and bring the stolen children back. She tracks them through dangerous terrain, into the belly of a mountain, to a lost city.

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Information, inspiration, and methods on how to fix everything, with detailed instructions on how to cope with a range of everyday household emergencies, as well as a host of do-it-yourself projects to help women enhance their personal surroundings.

Move from apprentice to master with assertiveness advice from the Star Wars™ galaxy's most powerful leaders, including Darth Vader, Palpatine, and Supreme Leader Snoke.

Plans for over 100 country furniture projects.