Télécharger le livre :  Unravelling Encounters

This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Work Artfully

The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought

The essays inThe Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace.The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-04-08
Collection : Laurier Studies in Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Creating Together

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-04-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Transition to Common Work

The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Canada and Africa in the New Millennium

Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is concerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie Canadian involvement. Focusing on the period following 2000, and by...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-03-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Sustaining the West

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-03-31
Collection : Environmental Humanities
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Télécharger le livre :  Reclaiming Canadian Bodies

The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-02-27
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Recovery

Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Chamber Music

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-01-13
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Reverse Shots

From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-01-09
Collection : Film and Media Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Seats of the Mighty

From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2015-01-05
Collection : Early Canadian Literature
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Télécharger le livre :  Kinds of Winter

After a fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, musher Dave Olesen turned his focus away from competition and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream. Over the course of four successive winters he steered his dogs and sled on long trips away from his remote Northwest...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-12-05
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Independence of South Sudan

The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused on three international responsibilities in the area of human security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to react, and the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-11-28
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  Abuse or Punishment?

At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-11-27
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada

In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-11-07
Collection : Editions SR
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Télécharger le livre :  Found in Alberta

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-10-22
Collection : Environmental Humanities
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Télécharger le livre :  Ley Lines

Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they’re artworks and poems. Its various forms of exchange...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-10-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Moving Environments

In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-10-07
Collection : Environmental Humanities
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Télécharger le livre :  The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author.The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2014-10-01
Collection : Early Canadian Literature
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