The snake, half a meter long, was twisted around the handle of the pail.

From Canada comes a lively sampling of short stories and poems.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.

John Dewey's Democracy and Education.

Mid-August and two boys lie on the abandoned ski jump in Minnow Lake.

Phlip Arima is one of Toronto's most popular performance poets.

Nominated in 1997 for a Julia Child Award, Cupboard Love is back, bigger and better than ever.

John Stiles' first collection of poetry, Scouts Are Cancelled, explored the dialect.

In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

An amateur scientist encounters a group of travelling South American ants.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

This book introduces the basics of Chinese culture. You will discover how to initiate contact, what to expect in meetings, and how to behave there.

A once rare disease, autism is now a worldwide epidemic affecting half a million American children.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.

Fraudsters and scammers are constantly developing increasingly complicated ways to steal your money.

In Bull, Mark Sinnett's first collection of stories, daily life is overwhelmed.

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.

A crowd of dead people tries to hitchhike in the rain.

Although society is becoming more tolerant of gay people, and even accepting of them in some places.