Wadi el Hasa Archaeological Survey 1979-1931, West-Central Jordan

By Burton MacDonald
Subjects: Social Science, Archaeology, History

In this major work Professor MacDonald chronicles an intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the southern flank of the Wadi el Hasa in West–Central Jordan. The survey resulted in the recovery ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

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

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 ...

Will Gorlitz

By Bruce W. Ferguson, Peggy Gale, Jeffrey Spalding, and David Urban
Subjects: Art

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here examines the art, background, and theoretical concerns of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. Appreciated especially for his painting and drawing, Gorlitz produces ...

Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

We All Giggled

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

Weinzweig

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

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.

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Woldemar Neufeld’s Canada

Edited by Laurence Neufeld, Monika McKillen
By Hildi Froese Tiessen, and Paul Gerard Tiessen
Subjects: Art

Woldemar Neufeld (1909–2002) emigrated with his Mennonite parents from Ukraine to Canada in 1924. By the late 1920s, he had begun his lifelong project as documentarist, responding especially to the ...

"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, ...

Where No Doctor Has Gone Before

By Robert Huish
Subjects: Medical, Social Science, Development Studies, Political Science, Globalization

Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, ...

Writing between the Lines

Edited by Agnes Whitfield
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada’s most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process ...