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In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada...

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Télécharger le livre :  Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work
All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical...

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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-21
Collection : Life Writing PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming My Mother’s Daughter
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Big Picture Realities
In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration....

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dominion of Youth
Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-10-08
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Télécharger le livre :  This Spot of Ground
This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a significant portion of which...

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Télécharger le livre :  Programming Reality
Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Subjects
Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Desire for Development
In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in...

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Parution : 2007-12-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare
Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international...

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Télécharger le livre :  Reason Over Passion
"Reason is not passion's slave." Rather, the author argues, reason appraises the cultural appropriateness of passion, thus directing our attitudinal behaviour. He refutes those theories of value which correspond philosophically to societies described by Jean-Jacques...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mobility, Elites and Education in French Society of the Second Empire
Based on a unique historical source, this book examines the social origins, career expectations, and first jobs of 28,000 students in the “elitist” French secondary schools of the 1860s. Using sophisticated statistical analysis as well as conventional historical...

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Télécharger le livre :  Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World
Who was Althusius, and why is the work of a seventeenth- century political theorist important in modern times? Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a political theorist and a combative city politician who defended the rights of small communities against territorial...

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Télécharger le livre :  Of God and Maxim Guns
The founding of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria arose out of the enthusiasm of the young church in Jamaica.The first mission party arrived in Calabar in 1846 and settled into a routine of preaching, teaching, campaigning for social reform, ministerial training, and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Calderon and the Baroque Tradition
Calderón and the Baroque Tradition is the outcome of a tricentennial commemoration of the seventeenth century Spanish poet and dramatist, PedroCalderón de la Barca, and a tribute to a distinguished tradition in Calderonian studies at the University of Toronto. A major...

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Télécharger le livre :  Ritual and Ethnic Identity
In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy...

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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Servants and Public Policy
This thoroughgoing study of international secretariats might be entitled "What the International Civil Servant Really Does," as opposed to what he or she should do or is believed to do. The author interviewed international officials, studied the documents of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine
This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Craving and Salvation
Is there any escape form the awareness of pain and the bonds of an unending cycle of life? Why are human subject to craving" What is the nature human beings? The Buddhist understanding of salvation is based upon such queries. A thorough grasp of the function of craving...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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