Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
The Fence and the Bridge
Geopolitics and Identity along the Canada–US Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Chapter Five
Heather Nicol
Heather Nicol examines the twenty-first century border in the post 9/11 era.
Growing Up in Armyville
Canada's Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous “Armyville,” Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments,...
Canada and the Middle East
In Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s...
Archetypes from Underground
Notes on the Dostoevskian Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works. In this interdisciplinary study, Harrison analyzes selected texts in light...
Canadian Social Policy, Fifth Edition
Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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Back to the Present: Rethinking Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
Marilyn Callahan and Karen Swift
The question of “risk” and “risk assessment” in child welfare are explored in chapter 10. Callahan and Swift explain the managerial, medical, and legal influences that...
by Nellie L. McClung, Cecily Devereux
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 1988
"It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition."
What is modernity—a philosophical outlook or a set of...
Burke’s Politics
A Study in Whig Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke’s speeches...
Tennyson’s Camelot
The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and composers for the past hundred years....
The United Church of Canada: A History
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns,...
Accident of Fate
A Personal Account, 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
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Lika
Imre Rochlitz and Joseph Rochlitz
Germans reported to be approaching small village in Lika region where my family and I have taken refuge. After heated disagreement on what to do, Uncles Robert, Julius and I continue our escape; Aunt Camilla and Uncles Ferdinand and Oskar stay behind and are murdered by SS troops soon afterwards.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
The Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodologies is about feminist approaches to research in twelve disciplines. The authors look at whether there is something called feminist methodology, whether there are several feminist methodologies, or whether feminists use existing methodologies...
After Prison
Navigating Employment and Reintegration
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
prisoners returning to community, homelessness, mental illness, gang-involved youth all perpetual hot topics
controversially promotes criminal record pardons and encourages employment of those with criminal records
presents recent work from Canada, typically underrepresented, compares with US and other countries
contains real-life stories and local program models
Christ and Modernity
Christian Self-Understanding in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In this re–examination of the roots of the relationship between religion and science, David Hawkin focuses on the concept of autonomy as he explores the question: Is there continuity and compatibility between the autonomy that underlies Christian faith and the role of individual freedom in the technological...