Télécharger le livre :  Fostering Nation?

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-28
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  We All Giggled

We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite their Jewish...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-28
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  From Room to Room

The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-28
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Skeletons in the Closet

Family conflict has traditionally been studied by researchers who are at a safe intellectual distance from the families under their study. In Skeletons in the Closet, and in line with feminist research methodologies, the hierarchical distance between researcher and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining Resistance

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-23

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Télécharger le livre :  I Remember Laurier

I Remember Laurier is the story—actually, thirty-seven stories—of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Wider Boundaries of Daring

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-09-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Be Good, Sweet Maid

January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-08-25
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Child Welfare

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare:...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Accident of Fate

Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his family behind....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-07-07
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-07-07

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Télécharger le livre :  From Logos to Christos

From Logos to Christos is a collection of essays in Christology written by friends and colleagues in memory of Joanne McWilliam. McWilliam was a pioneer woman in the academic study of theology, specializing in Patristic studies and internationally recognized for her...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-06-27
Collection : Editions SR
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Télécharger le livre :  Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World

Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-06-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Ecologies of Affect

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-06-13
Collection : Environmental Humanities
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Télécharger le livre :  Just a Larger Family

The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-05-15
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Anne of Tim Hortons

Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Burdens of Proof

Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-20
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Feeling Canadian

“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-12
Collection : Film and Media Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-12
Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Will Gorlitz

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here examines the art, background, and theoretical concerns of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. Appreciated especially for his painting and drawing, Gorlitz produces imaginative and highly visual artwork that is further...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-12

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