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Members of a small Canadian town are left to wonder if they might have been able to prevent the tragedy when William Heath, an apparently devoted husband and father, kills his wife and daughters after being accused of embezzlement by his employer.

Chronicles the 1979 season for the Michigan State Spartans and the Indiana State Sycamores, which culminated with the NCAA finals in which Earvin "Magic" Johnson played against Larry Bird, a game which altered the history of basketball.

Presents a biographical discussion of German social scientist and philosophy Friedrich Engels, examining his personal life in light of his radical politics and close association with Karl Marx.

Philip Caputo chronicles his experiences as a war correspondent, describing his dangerous encounters with the Chicago Mafia, Islamist extremists, Beirut snipers, and Middle Eastern terrorists.

Fawad, an optimistic Afghan boy living in Kabul, loses his father, brother, and sister to the Taliban regime, but when his mother is hired as a housekeeper for a charismatic Western woman, Fawad is exposed to endless curiosities, though another calamity may cost Fawad his faith in his country. Includes autobiographical information on the author, discussion questions, and a glossary.

Describes ways that societies all over the world deal--and do not deal--with human waste, and covers the sewers of Paris, London, and New York City; examines the public toilets in India, China's biogas digesters, third world sanitation movements, the U.S. military laser elimination methods, and more.

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.