Télécharger le livre :  The Foreigner

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-04-17
Collection : Early Canadian Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Canada the Good

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take pride in supporting the tobacco industry, knowing it sells a deadly...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Memory Effect

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot

The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-25
Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Catching the Torch

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Motherlode

Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience is Carolyne Van Der Meer’s creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of her mother and other individuals who either spent their childhoods in Nazi-occupied Holland or were...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-25
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Detecting Canada

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-25
Collection : Film and Media Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Parallel Encounters

The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-24
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Order in Which We Do Things

Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-03-24
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Blocking Public Participation

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-02-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Ontario Boys

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood inOntario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a population fraught with uncertainty, and suffering from insecurity,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-02-04
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  From the Iron House

In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-01-07
Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it’s about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-11-08
Collection : Canadian Commentaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Germany’s Western Front: 1914

This multi-volume series in six parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems

Understanding and Addressing Girls’ Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding children’s aggressive-behaviour problems. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-30
Collection : SickKids Community and Mental Health
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Télécharger le livre :  Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-30
Collection : TransCanada
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Télécharger le livre :  When Technocultures Collide

When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard

The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-15
Collection : Film and Media Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecologies of the Moving Image

This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-10-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2013-09-28
Collection : Indigenous Studies
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