Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
Map Worlds
A History of Women in Cartography
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of...
This Woman in Particular
Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits?
“Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions...
Blues and Bliss
The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott...
Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground
The Poetry of F.R. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emphasis on nature and landscapes, remain remarkably relevant. Scott weighed in on many issues...
Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word
A Different Take on Taxes in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Conclusion
Alex Himelfarb
The Conclusion pulls the diverse threads of the book together, concluding with prospects and options for the future. It focuses on how we might change the conversation about taxes.
Muslim Ethics and Modernity
A Comparative Study of the Ethical Thought of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
A study of modern Muslim ethics, focussed upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this monograph sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an acculturationist, represents the "liberal"...
Wait Time
A Memoir of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal...
Dead Woman Pickney
A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history, told with stridency and humour. The author’s coming of age parallels the political stages of Jamaica’s moving from the richest Crown colony of Great Britain...
Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 12
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources.
Nightingale’s work on nursing is now...
Onward to the Olympics
Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides...
by Jeff Karabanow, Sean Kidd, Tyler Frederick
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
focuses on post-street life, unlike most studies
centres solution-focused inquiry as opposed to problem-focused
growing interest in alternative research methods (ie., arts-based) that this book employs
tongue-in-cheek approach to knowledge translation
comic book narratives
voices of youth articulated over time (followed for a year past homelessness)
youth age 16-25
Not the Whole Story
Challenging the Single Mother Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Abuse, parenting as single mothers, challenges in the labour market, mental health and addictions issues,...
Bearing Witness
Living with Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professional...
Leaving Fundamentalism: Personal Stories
Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In a time when religious conservatives have placed their faith and values at the forefront of the so-called “culture wars,” this book is extremely relevant. The stories in Leaving Fundamentalism provide a personal and intimate look behind sermons, religious services, and church life, and promote...