{"title":"David Solway","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"turtle-hypodermic-of-sickenpods-book-david-solway-9780773521117","title":"The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods","description":"A dominant theme that pervades this collection is the status of theory in the educational system. Solway claims that nothing of genuine and productive import comes out of theories. The manifold problems that bedevil the academy cannot be solved, or even rectified, by the usual onslaught of dogmas, reforms, and pseudo-revolutionary postulates that are produced in the misguided attempt to find the single, perfect, pedagogical system. Instead, we must embark on a stringent re-examination of the principles and assumptions on which our culture itself is predicated as reflected in contemporary practice. To do this, we need to develop an accurate killer heuristic to identify and monitor threats to our vocational well-being and effectiveness. This requires courage, a horror of sentimental credulity, and a willingness to learn from those in the educational trenches: the reference librarian should be questioned about the fate of the book, not the academic dean who has seldom read one; the teacher who has weathered innumerable classes should be heard, not the personnel director who is rarely in the building; the department secretary who is about to lose her job should be heeded while a jaundiced eye is turned on the omnipresent school coordinator. In almost every case, Solway believes those who deal directly with students will tell you the truth about what is happening to education while administrators will shuffle and mislead. The essays here are based on information from the trenches as well as from a significant minority of writers on educational and cultural themes. The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods will be must reading for anyone interested in the fate of students and the education system.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49634879930641,"sku":"GOR013604457","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0773521119.jpg?v=1788529559"},{"product_id":"director-s-cut-book-david-solway-9780889842724","title":"Director's Cut","description":"Argues that the time has arrived to take stock and engage passionately with our literature, and especially our poetry, if it is ever to be rescued from the swamp of second-ratedness into which it has descended. The author contends that almost all of the poetry being written in Canada these days is turgid, spurious and pedestrian.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50373741838609,"sku":"CIN0889842728G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0889842728.jpg?v=1786129855"},{"product_id":"crossing-the-jordan-book-david-solway-9781943003921","title":"Crossing the Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring these shocking times of war, violence, and hate many are now seeking answers to important questions. \u003cstrong\u003eWhat are the bases of the claims of the Jewish people to the Holy Land?\u003c\/strong\u003e What are the foundations of the conflicts between Muslims and Jews? \u003cstrong\u003eWhat does Western Culture and its decline have to do with Israel and the Muslims?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHow does the rise of extreme leftism in Canada and the United States facilitate and encourage extreme hate and violence at home and in the Middle East?\u003c\/strong\u003e These and many other questions are answered by David Solway in this timely collection of essays-- easily read, easily understood, and written with erudition, scholarship, and style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolway's style is appropriate for general readers or those with long backgrounds of knowledge of \u003cstrong\u003eJudaism\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eIslam\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eIsrael\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eMiddle East\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican and Canadian cultural and political radicalism and decline, the Jewish People\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003ethe intersection of Judaism and Islam in the Middle East\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most recent horror for the Jews that began on October 7, 2023, can be better understood with a clear understanding of Israel, diaspora Jews, ancient and \u003cstrong\u003emodern Jewish history\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the decline of the West into \u003cstrong\u003emoral relativism\u003c\/strong\u003e, communism, and \u003cstrong\u003eleftist utopianism\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes of strife and horror are best explained by clarity of thought and writing. Solway provides both in this important work that provides both context and background to the horrors seen recently in Israel, across Europe, in the United States, and across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403984277777,"sku":"CIN1943003920G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50989841285393,"sku":"NGR9781943003921","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058950177041,"sku":"NIN9781943003921","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52146958860561,"sku":"NLS9781943003921","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1943003920.jpg?v=1751348263"},{"product_id":"properties-of-things-book-david-solway-9781897231340","title":"The Properties of Things","description":"This collection of poems continues David Solway's exploration in the realm of fictive translation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51053205160209,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053207781649,"sku":"NIN9781897231340","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52688213082385,"sku":"NLS9781897231340","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1897231342.jpg?v=1790190001"},{"product_id":"crossing-the-jordan-book-david-solway-9781943003938","title":"Crossing the Jordan","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring these shocking times of war, violence, and hate many are now seeking answers to important questions. \u003cstrong\u003eWhat are the bases of the claims of the Jewish people to the Holy Land?\u003c\/strong\u003e What are the foundations of the conflicts between Muslims and Jews? \u003cstrong\u003eWhat does Western Culture and its decline have to do with Israel and the Muslims?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHow does the rise of extreme leftism in Canada and the United States facilitate and encourage extreme hate and violence at home and in the Middle East?\u003c\/strong\u003e These and many other questions are answered by David Solway in this timely collection of essays-- easily read, easily understood, and written with erudition, scholarship, and style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolway's style is appropriate for general readers or those with long backgrounds of knowledge of \u003cstrong\u003eJudaism\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eIslam\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eIsrael\u003c\/strong\u003e, the \u003cstrong\u003eMiddle East\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAmerican and Canadian cultural and political radicalism and decline, the Jewish People\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003ethe intersection of Judaism and Islam in the Middle East\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most recent horror for the Jews that began on October 7, 2023, can be better understood with a clear understanding of Israel, diaspora Jews, ancient and \u003cstrong\u003emodern Jewish history\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the decline of the West into \u003cstrong\u003emoral relativism\u003c\/strong\u003e, communism, and \u003cstrong\u003eleftist utopianism\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes of strife and horror are best explained by clarity of thought and writing. Solway provides both in this important work that provides both context and background to the horrors seen recently in Israel, across Europe, in the United States, and across the world. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51059020595473,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51059022954769,"sku":"NIN9781943003938","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52148073824529,"sku":"NLS9781943003938","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B0CLWGPWHV.jpg?v=1751250566"},{"product_id":"notes-from-a-derelict-culture-book-david-solway-9781912759262","title":"Notes from a Derelict Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this book elaborate an overall view of the central predicament confronting the West today: a theologically-inspired terrorist movement, the left-liberal belief-system that dominates the Western sensibility, the plague of political correctness that devitalizes language and obscures truth, and the almost universal opprobrium in which America--and by extrapolation the historical endowment of Western civilization--is held by the official institutions of the international community and by liberal culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor too many years now we have practiced the rites of evasion, craving asylum in blindness, conciliation, sophistry and equivocation. Many flinch from expressing their convictions plainly, fearing to offend their readers and imperil their professional credentials. There is no more pressing requirement for us today than the obligation to seek the truth and to speak clearly, boldly, and without compromise, an endeavor with which this book is fundamentally engaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51417944916241,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51417945866513,"sku":"CIN1912759268G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107532992785,"sku":"CIN1912759268VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52673256980753,"sku":"NLS9781912759262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912759268.jpg?v=1751061568"},{"product_id":"profoundly-superficial-book-david-solway-9781966833031","title":"Profoundly Superficial","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Solway is one of this generation's leading chroniclers-and one of its most penetrating analysts and humorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of timely, elegantly written, and often strikingly astute essays, Solway's moral imperatives are the foundations of each chapter. With a broad palette of subjects that he works like some epistolary Chagall or Mondrian, Solway juggles these items with finesse: snobby artists abusing art on the public dole, Donald Trump, Feminists, Hockey, Stephen Hawking, the ins and outs of being in and out of academic philosophy; the corruption and collapse of western academics; the viciously biased and inaccurate fake media coverage of Israel, and the false compassion of the political left, just to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA realist and pragmatist, Solway relies on his excellent eye for detail, his insightful thinking process, and his gift with words and stories to present this important and entertaining collection of prose (with some prose about poetry, too, for good measure). You will be challenged and entertained-and you'll learn some things, as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Solway is a rare writer with exceptional authorial and observational skills. The result is a very special collection of essays that will stay in your thoughts long after the last page is devoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52586283041041,"sku":"NLS9781966833031","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52758367928593,"sku":"NIN9781966833031","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781966833031.jpg?v=1782876226"},{"product_id":"profoundly-superficial-book-david-solway-9781966833048","title":"Profoundly Superficial","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Solway is one of this generation's leading chroniclers-and one of its most penetrating analysts and humorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of timely, elegantly written, and often strikingly astute essays, Solway's moral imperatives are the foundations of each chapter. With a broad palette of subjects that he works like some epistolary Chagall or Mondrian, Solway juggles these items with finesse: snobby artists abusing art on the public dole, Donald Trump, Feminists, Hockey, Stephen Hawking, the ins and outs of being in and out of academic philosophy; the corruption and collapse of western academics; the viciously biased and inaccurate fake media coverage of Israel, and the false compassion of the political left, just to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA realist and pragmatist, Solway relies on his excellent eye for detail, his insightful thinking process, and his gift with words and stories to present this important and entertaining collection of prose (with some prose about poetry, too, for good measure). You will be challenged and entertained-and you'll learn some things, as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Solway is a rare writer with exceptional authorial and observational skills. The result is a very special collection of essays that will stay in your thoughts long after the last page is devoured.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52586429579537,"sku":"NLS9781966833048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52725147959569,"sku":"NIN9781966833048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781966833048.jpg?v=1761054609"},{"product_id":"notes-from-a-derelict-culture-book-david-solway-9781912759279","title":"Notes from a Derelict Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this book elaborate an overall view of the central predicament confronting the West today: a theologically-inspired terrorist movement, the left-liberal belief-system that dominates the Western sensibility, the plague of political correctness that devitalizes language and obscures truth, and the almost universal opprobrium in which America--and by extrapolation the historical endowment of Western civilization--is held by the official institutions of the international community and by liberal culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor too many years now we have practiced the rites of evasion, craving asylum in blindness, conciliation, sophistry and equivocation. Many flinch from expressing their convictions plainly, fearing to offend their readers and imperil their professional credentials. There is no more pressing requirement for us today than the obligation to seek the truth and to speak clearly, boldly, and without compromise, an endeavor with which this book is fundamentally engaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52619869094161,"sku":"NLS9781912759279","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"franklin-s-passage-book-david-solway-9780773526839","title":"Franklin's Passage","description":"Poems inspired by the fate of Franklin's search for the North-West Passage","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53538536882449,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53538537013521,"sku":"NIN9780773526839","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780773526839.jpg?v=1778562959"},{"product_id":"chess-pieces-book-david-solway-9780773519015","title":"Chess Pieces","description":"From handling of the chessmen you infer the secret springs of human character. To pluck the enemy chessman between your fingers and replace it with your own reveals the cultivated, well-bred killer who cannot stand the sight of blood; knock the chessman over with a small click of wood on wood tells of an aesthetic craving for the fatal instrument, of one more passionate than violent; to push the piece from its intended square is signal of aggressive character and plainly indicates that power is the motive for committing murder; some will hold the captured piece and caress it nervously: these kill from cowardice; those who seem apologetic, taking pawns reluctantly, kill for noble reasons; and he who clears the board with one great sweep of his hand will kill from lack of hope, defeated by the prospect of defeat, as did my father only death could mate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53552065282321,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53552065937681,"sku":"NIN9780773519015","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780773519015.jpg?v=1786118765"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-david-solway.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}