Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
W.B. Yeats
Metaphysician as Dramatist
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1986
W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] ... imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it created, or could create, part of...
With Children and Youth
Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Introduction
Hans Skott-Myhre, Mark Krueger, and Kiaras Gharabaghi
The editors introduce the context of the book, the professional gatherings that gave rise to it, and provide an overview of the what is in the book, what is left out, and rationales for these.
God’s Intention for Man
Essays in Christian Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
This book contains, almost without change in content or style, the Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary in February, 1974. The theme of the lectures has been well worked over by contemporary theologians from almost every conceivable angle of Christian thought....
Dilemmas of Reconciliation
Cases and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace?
At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort to genocidal policies, when horrendous numbers of civilians have been murdered, raped,...
Social Poesis
The Poetry of Rachel Zolf
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Zolf's poetry deals with politics and ethics in vital ways, always relevant
writes about settler colonialism in Canada and Israel with concerns about theft of Indigenous land and Israel's treatment of Palestinian people
first selected volume of Zolf's work
Zolf organizes creative writing groups with trans and nonbinary youth, people in prison, youth in schools
Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders
Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The ten chapters in this book seek to create a new public health approach to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
• first study of its kind in over 70 years
• addresses response of faith communities to personal and social ethical concerns; Christian involvement in social justice work; interaction between churches and First Nations; churches and immigration
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of both “realist peace” and...
Hearing Voices
Qualitative Inquiry in Early Psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper understanding of the ways in which mental illness interferes with everyday life and the ways in which...
China Interrupted
Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
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"The End of the World has Come": Pudong Camp (1943-1945)
Sonia Grypma
Explores how two years of increasing privation and danger in a condemned tobacco warehouse in Pudong with 1200 other internees confined Betty Gale’s personal sense of mission to ever-constricting social...
by Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, J.C. Blokhuis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee that everyone will abandon proprietary notions about children,...
Abuse or Punishment?
Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
At one time, the use of corporal punishment by parents in child-rearing was considered normal, but in the second half of the nineteenth century this begin to change, in Quebec as well as the rest of the Western world. It was during this period that the extent of ill-treatment inflicted on children—treatment...
The Social Origins of the Welfare State
Quebec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 1940-1955
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall examines the connections between political initiatives...