Télécharger le livre :  He Was Some Kind of a Man

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The False Laws of Narrative

The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  From Civil Strife to Peace Building

From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Committed to the Sane Asylum

In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Curtain

Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Earthly Pages

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Killing Women

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada

The essays in Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of colonizer/colonized, this book examines a field of many cultures and the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915-1919

The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915–1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to 1919. Despite wartime censorship, Leslie and Cecil wrote frank and forthright letters that show how the young...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Thanks for Listening

A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume. Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Origins of the Welfare State

The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Rites of Way

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Canadian Commentaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Haiti

“This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  The One Best Way?

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work-family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Canadas

Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : TransCanada
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Télécharger le livre :  Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Stranger at the Door

At the beginning of a new writing project—whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Scandalous Bodies

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : TransCanada
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