Télécharger le livre :  Depicting Canada’s Children

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Volume...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07
Collection : Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing in Dust

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-03-17
Collection : Environmental Humanities
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Télécharger le livre :  Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-03-08
Collection : Studies in Christianity and Judaism
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Télécharger le livre :  A Common Written Greek Source for Mark and Thomas

This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-02-25
Collection : Studies in Christianity and Judaism
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Télécharger le livre :  One Hundred Years of Social Work

One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-02-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War

Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-02-01
Collection : Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
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Télécharger le livre :  Education for Development or Underdevelopment?

How critical is education in the development struggle of a third world country? Responding to popular demands for more accessible education, the Guyanese government instituted numerous educational reforms, hoping to promote economic growth in both the modern and the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-12-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Niagara Companion

What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-11-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Arms of the Infinite

The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-11-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Babies for the Nation

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-11-04
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Developments in Buddhist Thought

Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought. Part I, “On Being,” discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, Madhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mahayana Buddhism....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection : SR Supplements
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Télécharger le livre :  Simone Weil

“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil—the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer—was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Transcendence of the World: Phenomenological Studies

In The Transcendence of the World, Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our experience of the world—the world meant as independent of any particular awareness of it. Focussing on the writings of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition

The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Bodied Mindfulness

“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.” Bodied Mindfulness combines spiritual, social...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik...
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Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Brothers Beyond the Sea

During the years 1933 to 1939, a pro-Nazi movement developed in Canada. With the support of the German National Socialist Party, Canadian pro-Nazi institutions were formed: clubs, rallies, schools, and newspapers. The movement ended in failure. The author analyzes the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Celestial Tradition

Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood — primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Averroës’ Doctrine of Immortality

The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2010-10-30
Collection : Editions SR
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