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W and Z bosons W mesons, or W bosons, are heavy charged particles that mediate the weak nuclear interaction. In standard high-energy units, they have a mass of 81 GeV. There are two varieties, the W+ with charge +e, and its antiparticle, the W- , with ch... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 7 pages (2,212 words) in 3 products

W, or the Memory of Childhood SOURCE: "Allegory and Autobiography: Georges Perec's Narrative Resistance to Nostalgia," in The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 1993, pp. 201-10. In the following review of W ou Le Souvenir d'Enfance, Smith focuses on t... Study Pack: 2 Criticisms About 28 pages (8,508 words) in 2 products

W. A. G.'s Tale by Margaret Turnbull Study Pack: 1 eBook About 54 pages (16,262 words) in 1 product

W. Averell Harriman W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), American industrialist and financier, had a distinguished second career as a top-level diplomatic negotiator for five Democratic presidents. He was governor of New York for one term. Harriman was born in 18... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,523 words) in 1 product

W. C. Brownell William Crary Brownell had the misfortune of living for over a generation into the twentieth century, well beyond the late-Victorian milieu in which his critical temper worked with synthetic ease and assurance. Increasingly anachronistic a... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,399 words) in 1 product

W. C. Fields   The American comedian W. C. Fields (1879-1946) appeared in many of the classic early motion picture comedies. The son of an immigrant Cockney vegetable peddler, W. C. Fields was born William Claude Dukenfield on April 9, 1879, in Philadelp... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 11 Criticisms About 169 pages (50,627 words) in 14 products

W. C. Handy   The African American songwriter William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), known as the father of the blues, was the first person to notate and publish blues songs. He wrote over 60 blues, spirituals, and popular tunes. On Nov. 16, 1873, W. C.... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary, 4 Criticisms About 134 pages (40,060 words) in 6 products

W. D. Hamilton William D. Hamilton, considered by many the most influential evolutionary biologist of his generation, is best known for his genetic explanation of altruism. Hamilton argued in the 1960's that humans and other animals have a genetic tenden... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,237 words) in 1 product

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race by David Levering Lewis Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 91 pages (27,359 words) in 1 product

W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993 American statistician and management consultant who developed an influential theory of management based on statistical quality control. Deming, who was trained as a physicist, became interested in management theory while working ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 27 pages (7,960 words) in 1 product

W. Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) is considered one of the masters of modern photojournalism. He created some of the most poignant images of war ever made. Smith's photo essays chronicling social injustice deeply moved the American public. His i... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,617 words) in 1 product

W. G. Collingwood W. G. Collingwood was a man of many talents and interests: a geologist, an antiquarian, an artist as well as a critic and historian of art, a novelist, a translator, and a scholar of Icelandic history and literature. He achieved distinctio... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,649 words) in 1 product

W. G. Sebald SOURCE: Swales, Martin. Review of Die Beschreibung des Unglücks, by W. G. Sebald. Modern Language Review 82, no. 1 (January 1987): 248-50. In the following review of Die Beschreibung des Unglücks, Swales faults Sebald's view of the litera... Study Pack: 27 Criticisms About 166 pages (49,740 words) in 27 products

W. H. Auden   W. H. Auden was a major English poet, probably the most important English-speaking poet born in the twentieth century. Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and a... Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 1 Essay, 19 Criticisms About 431 pages (129,142 words) in 25 products

W. Herbert Dunton When W. Herbert "Buck" Dunton moved from New York to Taos, New Mexico, in 1914, he was one of the best-known Western illustrators in the United States. His paintings of the American West had graced the pages of periodicals such as Harper's... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,437 words) in 1 product

W. I. Thomas William Isaac Thomas (1863-1947) was an American sociologist and educator. He was a pioneer in the scientific use of personal documents and in pointing to the interplay between personality and culture. On Aug. 13, 1863, W. I. Thomas was bo... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 12 pages (3,667 words) in 2 products

W. J. T. Mitchell W. J. T. Mitchell has had a profound influence in two distinct areas of twentieth-century American critical thought. As editor of the journal Critical Inquiry, Mitchell has done much to enable the development of theory in American cultural... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 24 pages (7,290 words) in 1 product

W. L. George Despite his death at forty-three, W. L. George completed twenty-eight books--novels, short-story collections, and volumes of nonfiction--during his short literary career, with four more published posthumously. His concern for the place and... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,656 words) in 1 product

W. Michael Blumenthal A World War II refugee, Werner Michael Blumenthal (born 1926) used his academic and business skills to reach the highest levels of American government, industry, and banking. W. Michael Blumenthal, one of two children of Ewald and Rose Val... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 5 pages (1,497 words) in 1 product

W. O. Mitchell Crocus, the small prairie town that W. O. Mitchell has created in his novels and stories, like Stephen Leacock's Mariposa, has been mapped in the Canadian imagination. The original of this mythic place is Weyburn, Saskatchewan, a town of a... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 12 Criticisms About 42 pages (12,601 words) in 13 products

W. P. Kinsella William Patrick Kinsella, also known as W.P Kinsella was born in Edmonton Canada, on May 25th, 1935. While his father, John Kinsella, attended his everyday job as a contractor, his mother, Olive Kinsella, stayed home to be a mother and educ... Study Pack: 1 Essay, 23 Criticisms About 96 pages (28,830 words) in 24 products

W. Price Hunt Wilson Price Hunt Born 1782, Hopewell, New Jersey Died 1842, St. Louis, Missouri Robert Stuart Born 1785, Scotland Died 1848, Detroit, Michigan Born in Hopewell, New Jersey, in 1782, Wilson Price Hunt moved to St. Louis in 1804. Five years ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,070 words) in 1 product

W. R. Rodgers W. R. Rodgers was one of only two Irish poets of his generation who enjoyed a substantial British and American reputation, the other being Louis MacNeice, a fellow Ulsterman. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodgers worked for the British Broadcasti... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,332 words) in 1 product

W. S. Gilbert The English playwright and poet Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan to create a famous series of comic operas. William Gilbert was born in London, the son of a retired naval surgeon who became a p... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 33 pages (9,767 words) in 1 product

W. S. Graham W. S. Graham began publishing his poetry in the early 1940s. The twisted syntax and crowded, shifting imagery so characteristic of his first volumes quickly led to his being termed a Scottish Dylan Thomas. However, despite this reliance up... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 11 Criticisms About 36 pages (10,675 words) in 12 products

W. S. Merwin William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1947 he received an A.B. in English from Princeton University. He worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca ... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Essay, 37 Criticisms About 542 pages (162,498 words) in 40 products

W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham   In a career spanning more than sixty years, W. Somerset Maugham wrote a handful of novels which are still studied as modernist works. His ear for language, the use of actual—sometimes grim—experience transformed into fictional ... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 9 Biographies, 5 Criticisms About 317 pages (95,179 words) in 15 products

W. V. D. Hodge 1903-1977 Hodge was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1903. While attending the university at Edinburgh, he was advised by his teacher, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, to continue his studies at Cambridge in England (Sir Edmund's alma ma... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 3 pages (969 words) in 1 product

W. W. Jacobs W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales ... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 4 Criticisms About 102 pages (30,688 words) in 5 products

W.E.B. DuBois   "Every intellectual," writes Ignazio Silone, "is a revolutionary," and though this may not be generally true, in the case of W. E. B. Du Bois, the observation is both accurate and fitting. The internationally known scholar and writer, born... Study Pack: 8 Biographies, 4 Summaries, 4 Essays, 8 Criticisms About 256 pages (76,826 words) in 24 products

W.H. Auden and Christina G. Rossetti: Analysis of Two Poems The first poem I have decided to study is entitled "Stop All The Clocks." It was written by W H Auden, who died in 1973. He was raised in Birmingham and went on to graduate from Oxford University. He became an American citizen in 1938 an... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 4 pages (1,081 words) in 1 product

W. V. Awdry For almost half a century Thomas the Tank Engine and his fellow engines from Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry's Railway series have delighted children. World sales of more than 9 million copies, with 750,000 titles sold per year, attest to their co... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,777 words) in 1 product

by Carol Fenner Study Pack: 326 Study Guides About 643,947 pages (193,184,082 words) in 326 products

Wabi-sabi "Do not judge a book by its cover" is an old saying that is taught throughout the American generation, like America the Japanese also has a saying that is some what related called "Wabi-Sabi." Wabi-Sabi can be defined in many different ter... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 7 pages (2,103 words) in 1 product

Wacław Sierpiński 1882-1969 Polish mathematician who produced 724 papers and 50 books on the subject of mathematics. At a time when the Russians were aiming their efforts at keeping the Poles illiterate and generally uninformed, Sierpinski entered the Depar... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,277 words) in 1 product

Wace SOURCE: Shichtman, Martin B. “Gawain in Wace and Laȝamon: A Case of Metahistorical Evolution.” In Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers, pp. 103-19. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. In the following essay, Shichtman cont... Study Pack: 9 Criticisms About 173 pages (51,928 words) in 9 products

Wach, Joachim [first Edition] WACH, JOACHIM [FIRST EDITION] (1898–1955), German-American historian of religions. Wach was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, and died while vacationing in Orselina, Switzerland. He was a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn, a lineage that affe... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,526 words) in 1 product

Wach, Joachim [further Considerations] WACH, JOACHIM [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. True to his highly cultured family background, Joachim Wach remained a passionate devotee of music, literature, and the arts throughout his life. This devotion dovetailed with his scholarly interest ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,785 words) in 1 product

The Wachowski brothers "It was an underground sensation that became the 'Star Wars' of the new millennium," wrote Gina McIntyre in the Hollywood Reporter, "a thinking man's action film born aloft by the cultural zeitgeist: a time of paranoia, rife with fear that... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (2,941 words) in 1 product

Wilhelm Wackernagel Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Wackernagel was born in Berlin on 23 April 1806. His father, a police officer, died in 1815; three years later his mother died. Wackernagel and his sisters, Friederike and Luise, and their brothers, Philipp and Karl--... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,337 words) in 1 product

Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1 by John Richardson (author) Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 169 pages (50,723 words) in 2 products

Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2 by John Richardson (author) Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 168 pages (50,522 words) in 2 products

Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by John Richardson (author) Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 204 pages (61,283 words) in 2 products

Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by John Richardson (author) Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 eBook About 533 pages (159,973 words) in 2 products

Helen (Jane) Waddell At her death in 1965, Helen Waddell's nephew, Mayne Waddell, wrote a letter to Helen's sister, Meg Waddell Martin, describing his aunt as "perhaps the greatest woman-scholar" of the early half of the twentieth century. Twenty-one years lat... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,532 words) in 1 product

Martin Waddell Catherine Sefton novels are popular among young adult readers, who enjoy the thrill of the supernatural or a first-hand experience of the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. These readers may not be aware, however, that Catherine Sefton is act... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 15 pages (4,479 words) in 1 product

Wade Hampton III Wade Hampton III (1818-1902) was a Confederate general, South Carolina governor, and U.S. senator. In the 1880s he dominated politics in his native state. Wade Hampton III was descended from a prominent South Carolina family. Born on March... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 10 pages (3,101 words) in 1 product

Władysław Gomułka Wladislaw Gomulka (1905-1982) ruled Poland for 14 years as first secretary of the Communist party. His career in politics reflected the difficult relationship between nationalism and international communism in Eastern Europe after 1945. Wl... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 8 pages (2,270 words) in 1 product

Władysław Sikorski Wladyslaw Sikorski (1881-1943) played a major political and military role in the history of Poland. He founded a secret nationalist organization, guided the modernization of the army, and led a government-in-exile when Poland was invaded b... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 28 pages (8,427 words) in 1 product

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 178 pages (53,353 words) in 1 product