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Fans of Sara Pennypacker and Katherine Applegate will love this thrilling environmental fable—filled with laughter, music, and adventure.

I shall refer to her as Lizard here, but not because of the small lizard tattoo that I discovered on her inner thigh.

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s.

"... required reading for Canadians who want to understand the social disasters of the last decade". -- Sun (Vancouver) "...

"The world can be a perilous place. And the seemingly friendly world of Canada's favourite fictional family is no different.

"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economis

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.