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In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights of children. A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-29
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work

All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-23

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163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-21
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming My Mother’s Daughter

Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-07-19
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Big Picture Realities

In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border security and human rights, and the trends of economic integration....
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dominion of Youth

Adolescence, like childhood, is more than a biologically defined life stage: it is also a sociohistorical construction. The meaning and experience of adolescence are reformulated according to societal needs, evolving scientific precepts, and national aspirations...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-10-08
Collection : Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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Télécharger le livre :  This Spot of Ground

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a significant portion of which...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Programming Reality

Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-08-01
Collection : Film and Media Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Subjects

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2008-05-20
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Desire for Development

In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2007-12-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2007-04-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Mobilization for Total War

The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and material resources for total war by three nations in the twentieth century was discussed at the Seventh Royal...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Sciences in Canada

The Social Sciences in Canada is about the background and history of the Social Science Federation of Canada in honour of its fifty years of national activity. There can be little doubt that during the last fifty years the federation, and its predecessors, have had a...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Diverse Worlds of Unemployed Adults

Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Biblical Politics of John Locke

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01
Collection : Editions SR
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Télécharger le livre :  Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Antisemitism in Canada

This book is the first collection of scholarly essays to treat the topic of antisemitism in Canada, a complete history of which has yet to be written. Eleven leading thinkers in the field examine antisemitism in Canada, from the colonial era to the present day, in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Problems of Change in Urban Government

In 1911 one of every three Canadians lived in urban areas; today three out of four do. This growth has raised serious issues in urban government: How should power and authority be distributed among differing, often competing, urban interests? How can municipal...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Bountiful Island

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including such food plants as coconuts, breadfruit and taro. In this...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Henry Fielding

An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding's art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary scholars and a series of great historians, such a study is finally possible. This volume addresses that need, and, in the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2006-01-01

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