An exhilarating and blackly funny exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha's madhouse, longing to cross to Greece, only to find another seam of absurdities and disappointments on his eventual arrival.

In his #1 bestselling 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, Ronald Wright considers the most urgent questions of the twenty-first century, and of our survival on this earth.

A set of 5 Audio CDs of CBC's Ideas broadcast lectures of Ronald Wright's #1 bestseller, A Short History of Progress. Read by the author and produced by CBC Audio.

A richly illustrated edition of Ronald Wright's #1 bestselling 2004 CBC Massey Lectures.

An introduction to the life of Catharine Parr Traill.

A novel of unblinking honesty which illuminates the surprisingly thin line that separates aggression from tenderness, and that gives us a picture of a Britain that is strange and yet utterly convincing.

Rich in period illustrations and photos, this fascinating book recounts the Mexican-American War from both sides of the conflict.

This remarkable portrait of Emily Carr is a classic of Canadian art biography and won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.

Falling Hard is a travelogue of boxing, distilled to its essence by a sports writing champ.

John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation and in a substantial new chapter considers how the economic landscape has shifted in a decade.