Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
Uneasy Partners
Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value...
Loyal Gunners
3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the History of New Brunswick's Artillery, 1893-2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Loyal Gunners uniquely encapsulates the experience of Canadian militia gunners and their units into a single compelling narrative that centres on the artillery units of New Brunswick. The story of those unitsis a profoundly Canadian story: one of dedication and sacrifice in service of great guns and...
Indian Country
Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
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 among themselves over membership,...
A Question of Commitment: Children’s Rights in Canada
Children’s Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
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 is the first book to assess...
Blocking Public Participation
The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
2 Elaborates on the way in which SLAPPs operate, including a discussion of the common law causes of action that are typically utilized in SLAPP cases. This chapter also frames a typology based on the parties to SLAPP litigation and the democratic impact of these cases.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 1976
Everyone ought to be profoundly concerned with the "development" of the leaner and consequently the development of society. The ultimate standard (value) for such development is to attain a more adequate level of value and moral awareness, sensitivity, reasoning, and action.
The why,...
by James R. Horne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This study of the meaning and the experience of mysticism is a product of the author's personal interest in mysticism and his reflection, as a philosopher, on some of the philosophical questions raised by mysticism is a "a psychological process which occurs with varying degrees of intensity in...
Averroës’ Doctrine of Immortality
A Matter of Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism in the Christian world came from...
Desire for Development
Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
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 the post-development recollections...
by Ira Robinson, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between...
Luther and the Radicals
Another Look at Some Aspects of the Struggle Between Luther and the Radical Reformers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In their zeal to tell the true story of sixteenth-century radicalism, some sympathizers of the Anabaptist movement have portrayed the once maligned individuals and groups as innocent, pious people who suffered cruel persecution at the hands of the wicked state-churchmen. Their side of the story is...
Pursuing Giraffe
A 1950s Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
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 and documenting giraffe behaviour....
Lying Down in the Ever-Falling Snow
Canadian Health Professionals’ Experience of Compassion Fatigue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers...
The Diplomacy of Impartiality
Canada and Israel, 1958-1968
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
The Diplomacy of Impartiality is an analysis of a major decade in Canadian–Israeli relations, dealing with significant events that led to the Six-Day War of 1967 and its aftermath. Using primary documentation from the National Archives of Canada and the Israeli State Archives, Zachariah Kay shows...