Télécharger le livre :  The Waterloo Mennonites

The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming

There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Burke’s Politics

Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Surprise of My Life

“It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Women, Reading, Kroetsch

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Tennyson’s Camelot

As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and...
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Télécharger le livre :  Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile

Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Anglo-Saxons

The popular notion that sees the Anglo-Saxon era as “The Dark Ages” perhaps has tended to obscure for many people the creations and strengths of that time. This collection, in examining many aspects of pre-Norman Britain, helps to illuminate how Anglo-Saxon society...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  From Desolation to Reconstruction

Iraq’s streets are unsafe, its people tormented, and its identity as a state challenged from within and without. For some, Iraq is synonymous with internal hatred, bloodshed, and sectarianism. The contributors to this book, however, know another Iraq: a country that...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-26
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Evangelical Balance Sheet

Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-26
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  National Plots

Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  IDRC

The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  I Have a Story to Tell You

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-03
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom to Play

“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? Recollections of older Canadians, selections from writings by...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-09-29
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Unsettled Remains

Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-08-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Diversity

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly affected by changes such as the proliferation of computers in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Covering Niagara

Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-07-03
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Backpacks Full of Hope

Backpacks Full of Hope: The UN Mission in Haiti describes the experience of a Chilean general as Deputy Force Commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) during the particularly turbulent year September 2005 to September 2006. It details...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-06-25
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918

Canadian Women in Print, 1750—1918 is the first historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-06-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Through a Glass Darkly

Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-06-09

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