Télécharger le livre :  Afghanistan

Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-04
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre :  The Castles of the Rhine

Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the...
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Parution : 2009-08-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Pursuing Giraffe

In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-04
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Love and War in London

Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Broad Is the Way

In 1949, Margaret Norquay moved with her new husband, a minister with the United Church of Canada, to Mayerthorpe, in northern Alberta, a village in the centre of what was in those days a pioneer hinterland. Broad Is the Way is a collection of stories from their seven...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Country

Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Indigenous Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Desire Never Leaves

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Dancing Fear and Desire

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  God and the Chip

Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Editions SR
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Télécharger le livre :  Must Write

Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-03
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Auto/biography in Canada

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Food That Really Schmecks

In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks. Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Onward to the Olympics

The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Field Marks

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre :  Minds of Our Own

This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Is Canada Postcolonial?

How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature? In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, or Canadian culture. Postcolonialism is a theory that has gained...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Home Words

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-01
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Every Grain of Sand

Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, eco-feminism,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Eagle Minds

Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Leaving Fundamentalism

In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called “culture wars,” this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-30
Collection : Life Writing
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