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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Wall Street’s Empire From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear …	Stephen Gowans	20	2017	$2.00 Add
Walls Travels Along the Barricades	Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, …		288		View
NEW! Wanda’s War An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal	In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans …		256		View
Wanderlust A Social History of Travel	Where did passports come from? Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches? And how did teetotalers shape the modern vacation? Wanderlust answers these questions and more, as author Laura Byrne …		312		View
From Wang Dan’s Shooting Star From: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square View Collection: Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts Goose Lane Editions	This chapter begins with the author meeting with Wang Den in London, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The chapter goes on to provide a detailed day-by-day account of …	Michael Cormier	33	2013	$3.30 Add
From Wang Juntao’s Exile From: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square View Collection: Immigrating to Canada Goose Lane Editions	This chapter begins with the story of a Chinese exile named Wang Juntao, who was a student leader during the 1989 uprising and now lives in New York. The author goes on to discuss the legacy of …	Michael Cormier	16	2013	$1.60 Add
From War From: Three Funerals for my Father View twp	The author’s father’s ghost recounts life in Đà Lạt and the arrival of war.	Jolie Phuong Hoang	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From War From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter covers the outbreak of World War II and the effect that the declaration of war had on Japanese people living in Canada. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and …	Musako Fukawa; Pamela Hickman	12	2012	$1.20 Add
NEW! War Among the Clouds New Brunswick Airmen in the Great War Goose Lane Editions	War among the Clouds examines the experience of the more than 250 New Brunswickers who served in the British air services during the First World War. Drawing on diaries and letters of airmen, …	Brent J. Wilson	216	2024	View
From NEW! War and Amnesty From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 3 details Wanda’s and Casey’s experiences following Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union launched on June 22, 1941. The chapter discusses the …	Marsha Faubert	16	2023	$1.60 Add
From NEW! War is Over From: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Year Canada Was Cool View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the anti war movement in Canada, the impact that John and Yoko had on the movement in Canada.	Greg Marquis	42	2020	$4.20 Add
From War = Profits From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines how World War II (1939-1945) meant profits for American business both in America and Germany.	Jacques R. Pauwels	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Warrior Nation From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic …	Noah Richler	80	2012	$8.00 Add
From Wars and Rumours of Wars How Wars Start From: Disarming Conflict View Between The Lines		Ernie Regehr	21	2015	$2.10 Add
From Wartime Family Life for Italian Canadians From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter describes the wartime experiences of Italian Canadians who weren’t inturned and how their lives were made more difficult by widespread predjudice and mistrust. It illustrates …	Jean Smith Cavaluzzo; Pamela Hickman	10	2012	$1.00 Add
From Washed Up At Nine From: To Wawa with Love View James Lorimer and Company	Talks about doing grocery orders for the neighbourhood as a method of income as a child	Tom Douglas	6	2012	$0.60 Add