Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Going by the Moon and the Stars
Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
So, it was January the 18 and it was the middle of the night. And it was very, very cold. Snow was — we went just about knee deep in snow — And we went on the road going toward Posen, capital of Wartegau. And so we said, “Let’s take that direction.” Just going by the moon and the stars....
Cruel but Not Unusual
Violence in Canadian Families, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population—from very young children to the elderly—with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the...
The Anglo-Saxons
Synthesis and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The popular notion that sees the Anglo-Saxon era as “The Dark Ages” perhaps has tended to obscure for many people the creations and strengths of that time. This collection, in examining many aspects of pre-Norman Britain, helps to illuminate how Anglo-Saxon society contributed to the continuity...
by Gilbert Parker, Andrea Cabajsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
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 conflict between the English and the...
The Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature
Indigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
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Assessing Environmental Health Risks through Collaborative Research and Oral Histories
Christianne V. Stephens and Regna Darnell
Christianne V. Stephens and Regna Darnell represent a foray into understanding how oral narratives can illuminate health and environmental conditions on Walpole Island First Nation and more generally on any First Nations territory.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
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The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the “Age of Apology”
Pauline Wakeham
Pauline Wakeham’s “The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the ‘Age of Apology’” considers the rhetoric and function of state apologies in Canada....
Racisms in a Multicultural Canada
Paradoxes, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
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Augie Fleras
Problematizing Racism: From Racism 1.0 to Racism 2.0
Chapter 2 reveals how perceptions, theories, and definitions of racism have shifted because of evolving debates that often yield more heat than light. References to racism as bad attitudes have given...
God and the Chip
Religion and the Culture of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
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 William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged...
From Civil Strife to Peace Building
Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
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, the traditional remedies...
The Global Food Crisis
Governance Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both...
When Technocultures Collide
Innovation from Below and the Struggle for Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses between technologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek to undermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer...
Critical Condition
Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Chapter 1 Foolish Question: Isn’t It Time We Replaced Critical Thinking?
Discusses how Finn came to this topic. Originating in a debate that arose after he gave a TEDx talk focused on these issues, the topic seems to have a life to its own. Finn has given dozens of talks and workshops on these issues in many countries since that first TEDx talk.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Knowing Pandora in Sound: Acoustemology and Ecomusicological Imagination in Cameron's Avatar
Michael B. MacDonald
Musicologist Michael MacDonald examines indigenous music as a way of knowing through sound (acoustemology). He argues that had the film's composers been more directly engaged...
Motherlode
A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
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The Children
Carolyne Van Der Meer
The poems and short stories in this section treat Dutch wartime and Nazi occupation as seen through the eyes of children. Based on interviews with Dutch-Canadians, these pieces work to capture premature loss of innocence and the scars inflicted by war.