Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Di Brandt & Barbara Godard
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Wait Time

By Kenneth Sherman
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents ...

When Technocultures Collide

By Gary Genosko
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Technology & Engineering
Series: Cultural Studies

Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, “CrackBerry” users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers ...

Working Memory

Edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Weinzweig

Edited by John Beckwith
By Brian Cherney
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography, History, Canadian History

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.

Influenced ...

"Without fear and with a manly heart"

Edited by L. Iris Newbold, K. Bruce Newbold
With Evelyn A. Walters, and Mark G. Walters
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Military History, Biography & Autobiography

Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, ...

W.B. Yeats

By Heather C. Martin
Subjects: Literary Criticism

W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] . .. ...

We All Giggled

By Thomas O. Hueglin
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and ...

Whose Historical Jesus?

Edited by William E. Arnal & Michel Desjardins
Subjects: Religion
Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism

The figure of Jesus has fascinated Western civilization for centuries. As the year 2000 approaches, eliciting connections with Jesus’ birth and return, excitement grows — as does the number of studies ...