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| 'HIS DOMINION' & THE 'YELLOW PERIL' : Protestant Missions to the Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967 [Jiwu Wang] A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, "His Dominion" and the "Yellow Peril": Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyses the evangelising activities of missionaries and the role of religion in helping Chinese immigrants affirm their ethnic identity in a climate of cultural conflict. Jiwu Wang argues that, by working toward a vision of Canada that espoused Anglo-Saxon Protestant values, missionaries inevitably reinforced popular cultural stereotypes about the Chinese and widened the gap between Chinese and Canadian communities. Those immigrants who did embrace the Christian faith felt isolated from their community and their old way of life, but they were still not accepted by mainstream society. Although the missionaries' goal was to assimilate the Chinese into Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture, it was Chinese religion and cultural values that helped the immigrants maintain their identity and served to protect them from the intrusion of the Protestant missions. Wang documents the methods used by the missionaries and the responses from the Chinese community, noting the shift in approach that took place in the 1920s, when the clergy began to preach respect for Chinese ways and sought to welcome them into Protestant-Canadian life. Although in the early days of the missions, Chinese Canadians rejected the evangelising to take what education they could from the missionaries, as time went on and prejudice lessened, they embraced the Christian faith as a way to gain acceptance as Canadians. { 196pp, 155x230mm, May 2006; HB, £38.50, 0889204853:9780889204850 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| 163256 : A Memoir of Resistance [Michael Englishman] This is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage and resourcefulness as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman escaped death time and again, committing daring acts of bravery to do what he thought was right -- helping other prisoners escape and joining the underground resistance. He refused to surrender his spirit despite the loss of his wife and his entire family to the Nazis. Englishman kept a promise he had made to a friend, and sought his friend’s children after the war. With the children’s mother, he made a new life in Canada, where he continued his resistance, tracking neo-Nazi cells and infiltrating their headquarters to destroy their files. Today, Englishman remains active, speaking out against racism and hatred. { 110pp, 155x230mm, May 2007; PB, £11.99, 1554580099:9781554580095 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| A S BYATT & THE HELIOTROPIC IMAGINATION [Jane Campbell] A S Byatt's novel 'Possession: A Romance' attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning two prestigious prizes. Since then, there has been a lot more Byatt published and much of this has yet to be fully addressed. Enter Jane Campbell's new book, which is a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt's fiction, from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game in the 1960s to A Whistling Woman, which was published in 2002. The book begins with an overview of Byatt's writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth her critical principles. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account traces her development as a novelist and short story writer. Campbell uses a critical perspective appropriate to the author's individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt's intellectual concerns, and her insistence on placing her women in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially their search for creative voice. Campbell also explores the ways in which A S Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment. { 310pp, 155x230mm, June 2004; HB, £49.99, 088920439X:9780889204393 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AARON : A Novel [Yves Theriault; Translated by Paul Socken & Don Wilson] W Donald Wilson and Paul G Socken’s translation of 'Aaron', by Québécois author Yves Thériault, makes this fine novel available in English for the first time. An exploration of 'otherness', the story centres on Moishe, an Orthodox Jew and refugee from Russia, who is raising his grandson, Aaron, alone in Montreal, following the deaths of Aaron’s parents. Poverty-stricken, Moshe works as a tailor, maintains his strict adherence to Orthodoxy, and educates Aaron to follow in his path. Aaron becomes increasingly estranged from his grandfather’s ways, however, and his meeting with the militantly secular Jewish girl Viedna confirms his decision to embrace modernity, secularism, and materialism and to reject his faith entirely. The story portrays a tragically polarized situation in which neither side is able to communicate or to build an alternative world view that incorporates both tradition and modernity. Possibly Thériault’s finest novel, Aaron is a parable of our modern world and a poignant cautionary tale. { 126pp, 155x230mm, August 2007; PB, £11.99, 1554580021:9781554580026 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AFGHANISTAN : Transition Under Threat [Geoffrey Hayes & Mark Sedra (eds)] Leading Afghanistan scholars and practitioners paint a fuller picture of the situation in Afghanistan and the impact of international and particularly Canadian assistance. They review the achievements of the reconstruction process and outline future challenges, focusing on key issues like the narcotics trade, the Pakistan--Afghanistan bilateral relationship, the Taliban-led insurgency, and continuing endemic poverty. This collection provides new insight into the nature and state of Afghanistan’s post-conflict transition and illustrates the consequences of failure. { 160pp, 155x230mm, October 2008; PB, £17.99, 1554580110:9781554580118 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AGENT IN THE MARGIN : Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction [Clara A B Joseph] This is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit -- the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly -- and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Clara A B Joseph introduces the political and philosophical thought of Mahatma Gandhi to literary analysis and investigates theories on ideology by Louis Althusser to trace how characters marginalised by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal's work assume agency, challenging post-structuralist theories of cultural and ideological determinism. She considers how gender complicates autobiography and how the roles of daughter, virgin, wife, widow, and alien serve (often ironically) to highlight human dignity. "The Agent in the Margin", through both close and symptomatic readings of literary and critical narratives, points to non-structuralist aspects of Althusser's theory of ideology that, in turn, indicate a role for agency. Joseph situates the complete literary works of Sahgal within the circle of significance of Gandhi for literary studies. This book will be relevant to readers interested in South Asian studies, gender studies, race studies, Gandhi studies, literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial studies. { 247pp, 155x230mm, October 2008; HB, £23.50, 1554580439:9781554580439 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AID & EBB TIDE : A History of CIDA & Canadian Development Assistance [David R Morrison] Examines Canada's mixed record since 1950 in transferring over 50 billion dollars in capital and expertise to developing countries through ODA. It focuses in particular on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the organisation chiefly responsible for delivering Canada's development assistance. Aid and Ebb Tide calls for a renewed and reformed Canadian commitment to development co-operation at a time when the gap between the world's richest and poorest has been widening alarmingly and millions are still being born into poverty and human insecurity. { 602pp, 155x230mm, October 1998; HB, £49.99, 0889203040:9780889203044 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ALL THESE ROADS : The Poetry of Louis Dudek ((Laurier Poetry Series)) [Karis Shearer, Ph.D. Afterword by Frank Davey] A passionate believer in the power of art -- and especially poetry -- to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. This collection brings together thirty-five of Dudek's poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek's poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readings, reviews, commercial presses, and academic conferences. The poems in this selection -- witty satires, short lyrics, and long sequences -- reflect self-consciously on the relationship between art and life and will draw readers into the dramatic mid-century literary and cultural debates in which Dudek was an important participant. Karis Shearer's introduction provides an overview of Dudek's prolific career as poet, professor, editor, publisher, and critic, and considers the ways in which Dudek's "functional" poems help, both formally and thematically, to carry out the tasks associated with those roles. Comparing Dudek's reception to that of NourbeSe Philip, Marilyn Dumont, and Roy Miki, Frank Davey's afterword locates Dudek in a pre-1980s version of multiculturalism that is more complex than many critics would have it. According to Davey, Dudek broadened the limits on the possible range and type of poetry for subsequent generations of Canadian writers. { 64pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; PB, £8.99, 1554580390:9781554580392 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AND PEACE NEVER CAME [Elisabeth M Raab] Raab paints a brief yet moving picture of her idyllic life before her internment and the shock and the horrors of Auschwitz, but it is in the images of life after her liberation, that Raab imparts her most poignant story -- a story told in a clear, almost sparse, always honest style, a story of the brutal, and, at times, the beautiful facts of human nature. This book will appeal to a number of audiences -- to readers interested in human nature under the most trying circumstances, to historians of World War II or Jewish history, to veterans and their families who lived through World War II, and to those interested in politics and the evils of political extremism. Shortlisted for the 1998 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. Winner of the 1999 Jewish Book Committee award for best Holocaust memoir. { 196pp, 140x215mm, January 1997; PB, £15.99, 0889202923:9780889202924 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ANIMAL SUBJECTS : An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World ((Cultural Studies Series, Volume 8)) [Jodey Castricano (ed)] Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the discipline has lagged behind on questions of the animal, including those that address animal suffering in factory farming, product testing and laboratory experimentation, and in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to "Animal Subjects" are scholars and writers whose work, from diverse perspectives, calls into question the boundaries that divide humans from animals, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. This collection, the first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, aims to include the non-human animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms. { 312pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; PB, £22.99, 0889205124:9780889205123 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ANIMAL WELFARE & HUMAN VALUES [Rod Preece & Lorna Chamberlain] { 334pp, 155x230mm, April 1995; PB, £22.99, 0889202567:9780889202566 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ANTI-JUDAISM IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY, VOLUME 1 : Paul & the Gospels [Peter Richardson & David Granskou (eds)] { 232pp, 155x230mm, April 1986; PB, £22.99, 0889201676:9780889201675 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ANTI-JUDAISM IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY, VOLUME 2 : Separation & Polemic [Stephen G Wilson (ed)] { 186pp, 155x230mm, October 1986; PB, £22.99, 088920196X:9780889201965 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ANTISEMITISM IN CANADA : History & Interpretation [Davies (ed)] { 312pp, March 2006; PB, £17.99, 0889202168:9780889202160 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ASIAN CANADIAN WRITING BEYOND AUTOETHNOGRAPHY [Eleanor Ty & Christl Verduyn (eds)] The essays in "Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography" explore ways in which Asian Canadian authors have gone beyond what Françoise Lionnet calls autoethnography, or ethnographic autobiography. They demonstrate how representations of race and ethnicity in recent works became less traditional, more playful, aesthetically and ideologically transgressive, and exciting. { 330pp, 155x230mm, August 2008; PB, £22.99, 1554580234:9781554580231 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| AUTO/BIOGRAPHY IN CANADA : Critical Directions [Julie Rak (ed)] Widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada. Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s useful 'big picture' introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada. { 264pp, 155x230mm, June 2005; PB, £19.50, 0889204780:9780889204782 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BATTLE FOR BERLIN, ONTARIO : An Historical Drama [W R Chadwick] In August 1914, Berlin, Ontario, settled largely by people of German origin, was a thriving, peaceful city. By the spring of 1915 it was a city torn apart by the tensions of war. By September 1916, Berlin had become Kitchener. It began with the need to raise a battalion of 1,100 men to support the British war effort. Meeting with resistance from a peace-loving community and spurred on by the jingoistic nationalism that demanded troops to fight the hated ‘'Hun'', frustrated soldiers began assaulting citizens in the streets and, on one infamous occasion, a Lutheran clergyman in his parsonage. Out of this turmoil arose a movement to rid the city of its German name, and this campaign, together with the recruiting efforts, made 1916 the most turbulent year in Kitchener's history. This is the story of the men and women involved in these battles, the soldiers, the civic officials, the business leaders, and the innocent bystanders, and how they behaved in the face of conditions they had never before experienced. { 172pp, 155x230mm, November 1992; PB, £22.99, 0889202265:9780889202269 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BATTLE FOR LIFE : The History of No. 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital & No. 10 Canadian General Hospital in Two World Wars [A M Jack Hyatt & Nancy Geddes Poole] Two related military hospitals -- No.10 Canadian Stationary (1916-1919) and No.10 Canadian General (1942-1945) -- were formed in South Western Ontario for service during the First and Second World Wars. Both hospitals were formed at a time when Canada played a role on the world stage, a role which contributed to a substantial transformation of Canadian society. The staff and surviving patients of these hospitals were part of the changes that occurred in Canadian society following the two world wars. Yet, the story of these hospitals is largely unknown to Canadians, especially the citizens of London and the students of the University of Western Ontario which spawned one hospital and contributed significantly to the other. { 210pp, 155x230mm, January 2004; PB, £17.99, 0968875068:9780968875063 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press (LCMSDS Press) } |
| BE GOOD, SWEET MAID : The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie [Audrey Andrews] January 21, 1995: Dorothy Joudrie is arrested for attempting to murder her estranged husband. Soon after, Audrey Andrews begins to write her book. Audrey and Dorothy had known each other as children, but the identification of Andrews with Joudrie goes beyond merely the accident of a childhood acquaintance. It has to do with being subjected to the same societal constraints placed on girls and women during the years immediately following World War II, the years in which they had prepared for their adult lives. Expectations, placidly accepted then, are now seen as unrealistic and unreasonable. Did these expectations have some part in causing the tragedy in Dorothy Joudrie's life? When Andrews attempted to understand why Dorothy Joudrie had tried to kill her husband, and to write Joudrie's story, she began to examine her own life, her own expectations--those she had of herself and those others had of her. She also realised that telling the story of anyone is an intricate and often ephemeral pursuit. Any story she wrote could only be her version of Joudrie's experience. Nevertheless, it was important to be as honest as she could about her interpretation of that life. She determined to show carefully and accurately the damage that had been done to one woman -- damage that is still being done to many others -- through prejudice, attitudes, traditions and the institutions that are still the foundation of our society, and of our lives, everyday. The result is a fascinating account of events leading up to the trial, the trial itself and the effect of Joudrie's trial on the life of Audrey Andrews. Shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction and the Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book. { 275pp, 155x230mm, January 1999; PB, £18.50, 0889203342:9780889203341 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BECOMING MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER : A Story of Survival & Renewal [Erika Gottlieb, Ph.D.] This book tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist take-over after World War II, to the family's dramatic escape and immigration to Canada. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer trying to work through her complex and deep relationship with her mother, whose portrait she cannot paint until she completes her journey through memory. The core of the book is Eva's riveting recollection of the last months of World War II in Budapest, seen through a child's eyes, and is reminiscent in its power of scenes in Joy Kogawa's "Obasan". Exploring the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, the book illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory. Illustrations by the author throughout the book, some in colour, enhance the story. { 166pp, 155x230mm, March 2008; PB, £14.99, 1554580307:9781554580309 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BEFORE THE FIRST WORD : The Poetry of Lorna Crozier [Catherine Hunter (ed)] Lorna Crozier's radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada's most popular poets. This is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected and introduced by Catherine Hunter, and includes an afterword by Crozier herself. Representing her work from 1985 to 2002, the collection reveals the wide range of Lorna Crozier's voice in its most lyrical, contemplative, ironic, and witty moments. Hunter's introduction discusses the poet's major themes, with particular attention to her feminist approach to biblical myth and her fascination with absence and silence as sites for imaginative revision. Crozier's afterword, "See How Many Ends This Stick Has: A Reflection on Poetry", is a lyrical meditation that provides an inspirational glimpse into the philosophy of a writer who prizes the intensity of awareness that poetry demands, and is tantalised by what predates speaking and all that cant be named. An engaging volume that will appeal to undergraduate students as well as general readers of poetry. { 62pp, 155x230mm, September 2005; PB, £8.99, 0889204896:9780889204898 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE : A Historical Geography of the Finns in the Sudbury Area [Oiva W Saarinen] { 328pp, 150x230mm, January 2001; PB, £19.50, 0889203539:9780889203532 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BIBLICAL POLITICS OF JOHN LOCKE [Kim Ian Parker] John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke's interest in Scripture and how that interest is articulated in the development of his political philosophy. Parker shows that Locke's liberalism is inspired by his religious vision and, particularly, his distinctive understanding of the early chapters of the book of Genesis. Unlike Sir Robert Filmer, who understood the Bible to justify social hierarchies (i.e., the divine right of the king, the first-born sons rights over other siblings, and the "natural" subservience of women to men), Locke understood from the Bible that humans are in a natural state of freedom and equality to each other. The biblical debate between Filmer and Locke furnishes scholars with a better understanding of Lockes political views as presented in his Two Treatises. The Biblical Politics of John Locke demonstrates the impact of the Bible on one of the most influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, and provides an original context in which to situate the debate concerning the origins of early modern political thought. { 201pp, 155x230mm, May 2004; HB, £49.99, 0889204500:9780889204508 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BLOCKADES & RESISTANCE : Studies in Actions of Peace & the Temagami Bloackades of 1988-89 [Bruce W Hodgins, Ute Lischke & David T McNab (eds)] This book examines Aboriginal resistance movements on Canada, focussing especially on the Temagami and Oka blockades. { 276pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; HB, £38.50, 0889203814:9780889203815 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BLUES & BLISS : The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke [Jon Paul Fiorentino (ed)] 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 Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. Jon Paul Fiorentino's introduction focuses on this polyphony, his influences -- Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats -- and his "voice throwing", and shows how the intersections here produce a "troubling" of language. He sketches Clarke's primary interest in the negotiation of cultural space through adherence to and revision of tradition and on the finding of a vernacular that begins in exile, especially exile in relation to African-Canadian communities. In the afterword, Clarke, in an interesting re-spin of Fiorentino's introduction, writes with patented gusto about how his experiences have contributed to multiple sounds and forms in his work. Decrying any grandiose notions of theory, he presents himself as primarily a songwriter. { 80pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; PB, £8.99, 1554580609:9781554580606 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BODY IN FILM [R Bruce Elder] { 54pp, 165x215mm, January 1989; PB, £17.50, 0919777848:9780919777842 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BODY OF VISION : Representations of the Body in Recent Film & Poetry [R Bruce Elder] Elder examines how artists such as Brakhage, Artaud, Schneemann, Cohen and others have tried to recognise and to convey primordial forms of experiences. He argues that the attempt to convey these primordial modes of awareness demands a different conception of artistic meaning from any of those that currently dominate contemporary critical discussion. By reworking theories and speech in highly original ways, Elder formulates this new conception. His remarks on the gaps in contemporary critical practices will likely become the focus of much debate. { 400pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £22.99, 0889203288:9780889203280 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BROAD IS THE WAY : Stories from Mayerthorpe [Margaret Norquay] Humorous, up-lifting stories of the life of a new minister and his new bride during their years in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, as they worked together, from 1949 through 1955, to live the lives of pioneers while enhancing the life of this small community. { 102pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £14.99, 155458020X:9781554580200 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| BY WORD OF MOUTH : The Poetry of Dennis Cooley [Dennis Cooley; Edited by Nicole Markotic] Dennis Cooley, one of Canada's most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In "By Word of Mouth", a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, is about our time and our place. Nicole Markotic's introductory essay discusses how Dennis Cooley plays with poetic reference, inspires with syntactical surprises, parodies contemporary writing, and indulges in wild, celebratory puns. This book roams around Dennis Cooley's poetical world and invites the reader to play along. { 62pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; PB, £8.99, 1554580072:9781554580071 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CALL OF CONSCIENCE : French Protestant Responses to the Algerian War, 1954-1962 [Geoffrey Adams] { 270pp, 150x230mm, May 1998; PB, £22.99, 0889202990:9780889202993 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CAN THE WORLD BE GOVERNED? : Possibilities for Effective Multilaterialism [Alan S Alexandroff (ed)] In this book, leading international relations experts and practitioners examine through theory and case study the prospect for successful multilateral management of the global economy and international security. In the theory section contributors tackle the big questions: Why is there an apparent rising tide of calls for reform of current multilateral organisations and institutions? Why are there growing questions over the effectiveness of global governance? Is the reform of current organisations and institutions likely or possible? Case studies include the examination of difficulties facing global development, the challenges facing the IMF and the governance of global finance, the problems of the UN 2005 World Summit and its failed reform, and the WTO and the questions raised by the prolonged Doha Development Round. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. { 436pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £23.50, 1554580412:9781554580415 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADA & THE METIS, 1869-1885 [D N Sprague; Foreword by Thomas R Berger] { 204pp, 155x230mm, June 1988; PB, £22.99, 0889209642:9780889209640 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADA & THE MIDDLE EAST : In Theory & Practice [Paul Heinbecker & Bessma Momani (eds)] Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. CANADA AND THE MIDDLE EAST 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 relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada's efforts to promote its interests and values -- peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism, for example -- and investigate the views of interested communities on Canada's relations with countries of the Middle East. CANADA AND THE MIDDLE EAST will be useful to academics and students studying the Middle East, Canadian foreign policy, and international relations. It will also serve as a primer for Canadian companies investing in the Middle East and a helpful reference for Canada's foreign service and journalists stationed abroad by providing a background to Canada's interests and role in the region. { 232pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £17.99, 1554580242:9781554580248 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN BATTLEFIELDS IN ITALY : Sicily & Southern Italy [Eric McGeer & Matt Symes] This book transports the reader to Sicily, where Canadian soldiers fought in the summer of 1943. With remarkable new three-dimensional satellite maps, this book is sure to be enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in Canada's Second World War experience. { 85pp, November 2008; PB, £16.50, 0978344154:9780978344153 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN BATTLEFIELDS IN NORMANDY : A Visitor's Guide: 3rd Edition [Terry Copp & Mike Bechthold] The battlefields of Normandy have played an important role in the collective memory and imagination of generations of Canadians. From the great Vimy Pilgrimage of 1936 to the D-Day anniversaries of recent times, Canadians have been drawn to the memorials and place names which are a vital part of our history. This revised guide to the Normandy battlefields is intended to encourage Canadians to set out on their own journey to those places -- not just the memorials and museums, but the villages and fields where young Canadians fought with such bravery to liberate France from the yoke of Nazi tyranny. { 128pp, 215x280mm, April 2008; PB, £23.50, 0978344146:9780978344146 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press (LCMSDS Press) } |
| CANADIAN BATTLEFIELDS IN NORTHWEST EUROPE, 1944-1945 : A Visitor's Guide: 3rd Edition [Terry Copp & Michael Bechthold] This revised edition brings the Victory Campaign in Northern France, Holland, and Germany to life with never-before-seen full-colour photographs of the Canadian Army in Northwest Europe. Written by Terry Copp and illustrated with photographs and expertly drawn maps by Mike Bechthold, this book is a must-read for any Canadian thinking of visiting Northern Europe. { 160pp, November 2008; PB, £23.50, 0978344138:9780978344139 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE / ÉCHANGES CULTURELS AU CANADA : Translation & Transculturation / traduction et transculturation [Norman Cheadle & Lucien Pelletier (eds)] Text in French & English. These essays provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of coloniser/colonised, this book examines a field of many cultures and the creative interactions among them. This comprehensive study discusses Canadian cultural space as being in process of continual translation of both the other and oneself. { 400pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; HB, £49.99, 0889205191:9780889205192 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN CULTURAL POESIS : Essays on Canadian Culture [Gary Sherbert, Annie Gerin & Sheila Petty (eds)] How do we make culture and how does culture make us? "Canadian Cultural Poesis" takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates in Canadian culture, this book will appeal not only to readers looking for an overview of Canadian culture but also to those interested in cultural studies and interdisciplinarity, as well as scholars in film, art, literature, sociology, communication, and women’s studies. This book offers new insights into how we make and are made by Canadian culture, each essay contributing to this poetics, inventing new ways to welcome cultural differences of all kinds of the Canadian cultural community. { 524pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; PB, £22.99, 0889204861:9780889204867 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN METHODIST WOMEN, 1766-1925 : Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel [Marilyn Färdig Whiteley] Canadian Methodist women, like women of all religious traditions, have expressed their faith in accordance with their denominational heritage. Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel analyses the spiritual life and the varied activity of women whose faith helped shape the life of the Methodist Church and of Canadian society from the latter half of the eighteenth century until church union in 1925. Based on extensive reading of periodicals, biographies, autobiographies, and the records of many women’s groups across Canada, as well as early histories of Methodism, Whitely tells the story of ordinary women who provided hospitality for itinerant preachers, taught Sunday school, played the melodeon, selected and supported women missionaries, and taught sewing to immigrant girls, thus expressing their faith according to their opportunities. In performing these tasks they sometimes expanded women’s roles well beyond their initial boundaries. Focusing on religious practices, Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925 provides a broad perspective on the Methodist movement that helped shape nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Canadian society. The use and interpretation of many new or little-used sources will interest those wishing to learn more about the history of women in religion and in Canadian society. { 310pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; HB, £49.99, 0889204802:9780889204805 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CANADIAN SOCIAL POLICY, 4TH EDITION : Issues & Perspectives [Anne Westhues (ed)] The objective of this new edition is the same as that of previous editions: to help students to understand social policy from a Canadian perspective, and to stir them to discussion and debate. Part One provides a general overview of social policy and Part Two discusses the policy-making processes, from the international factors that influence them to the ways in which a social worker can become part of this process. Part Three focuses on current social policy issues, and Part Four offers a look to the future. Each chapter of this best-selling book has been thoroughly updated for this new edition with regard to current policy, debated issues, and resources cited. Three new chapters have been added, including an overview of adult mental health policy and a critical look at risk assessment in child welfare. There is also a discussion of current challenges to the Charter of Rights and Canadians increasing use of the justice system to shape social policy. As a result, the reader gains an informed perspective of policy development and evaluation. Although designed primarily for use by social workers, the book will benefit anyone who is involved in the policy-making process. { 478pp, 155x230mm, May 2006; PB, £22.99, 0889205043:9780889205048 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CELESTIAL TRADITION : A Study of Ezra Pound's 'The Cantos' [Demetres P Tryphonopoulos] Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the Mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood -- primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study traces Pound's intimate engagement with specific occultists (W. B. Yeats, Allen Upward, Alfred Orage, and G. R. S. Mead) and their ideas. The author argues that speculative occultism was a major factor in the evolution of Pound's extraordinary aesthetic and religious sensibility, much noticed in Pound criticism. The discussion falls into two sections. The first section details Pound's interest in particular occult movements. It describes the tradition of Hellenistic occultism from Eleusis to the present, and establishes that Pound's contact with the occult began at least as early as his undergraduate years and that he came to London already primed on the occult. Many of his London acquaintances were unquestionably occultists. The second section outlines a tripartite schema for The Cantos (katabasis/dromena/epopteia) which, in turn, is applied to the poem. It is argued here that The Cantos is structured on the model of a initiation rather than a journey, and that the poem does not so much describe an initiation rite as enact one for the reader. In exploring and attempting to understand Pounds' occultism and its implications to his [Pounds'] oeuvre, Tryphonopoulos sheds new light upon one of the great works of modern Western literature. { 214pp, 155x230mm, May 1992; HB, £49.99, 0889202028:9780889202023 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS FOR CANADA [Katherine Covell & R Brian Howe] This title examines Canada's obligations and the rights of children from the perspectives of research and development in the fields of developmental psychology, developmental neuroscience, law and family policy { 244pp, 155x230mm, May 2001; PB, £22.99, 0889203806:9780889203808 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHASING THE COMET : A Scottish-Canadian Adventure [Patricia Koretchuk] How can the sighting of a comet in Scottish skies almost a century ago change farming in British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta, and even in Tanzania? What does it have to do with the fiercely independent immigrant son of an iron-fisted Scottish farm manager? What is the relation between farming, sexuality, and love to the dreams of David Caldow in early-twentieth century Canada? 'Dour Scot' is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day multi-cultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age. Throughout the tour he shares decades of laughter, tears, fears, and growth. Author Patricia Koretchuk, writing in creative documentary style, has ensured that this personal tale is well researched, providing accurate details of both the physical and social environments surrounding the events in David's life, validating his memories, and answering the questions posed above. Chasing the Comet is truth that reads like fiction, a memoir that entertains. It informs and challenges our preconceptions of working people and the times in which they live. { 241pp, 155x230mm, April 2002; PB, £17.99, 0889204071:9780889204072 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHILD WELFARE : Connecting Research, Policy, & Practice [Kathleen Kufeldt & Brad McKenzie (eds)] In 1994 a group of researchers and decision makers met to discuss the state of child welfare. Also present were a few practitioners and two youth in care. Six years later, when they met again, the number of practitioners and youth had grown considerably and were joined by a strong contingent of foster parents. Thus the findings and insights presented were affirmed or challenged by those most affected -- those on the front line. It was an exciting event, worth capturing in book form. Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie have gathered the papers presented at the 2000 Symposium and have organised them under four themes: incidence and characteristics of child maltreatment; the continuum of care; policy and practice; and future directions. An analysis and synthesis of the work informs each of these themes, while an eight-point research agenda developed in an earlier symposium is used to assess developments to date and provide guidance for the future. { 479pp, 155x230mm, May 2003; PB, £27.99, 088920392X:9780889203921 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHILDREN IN ENGLISH-CANADIAN SOCIETY : Framing the Twentieth-Century Consenus [Neil Sutherland] { 336pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £25.50, 0889203512:9780889203518 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHILDREN OF THE OUTER DARK : The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney [Karl E Jirgens] A four-time Governor General's-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in south-western Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney's poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth -- embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. "Children of the Further Dark" provides a geological survey of Dewdney’s poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdney’s career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canada's essential poetic minds. { 58pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £8.99, 0889205159:9780889205154 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH ISSUES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE [Cheryl Krasnick Warsh & Veronica Strong-Boag (eds)] From sentimental stories about polio to the latest cherub in hospital commercials, sick children tug at the public’s heartstrings. However sick children have not always had adequate medical care or protection. The essays in this book investigate the identification, prevention, and treatment of childhood diseases from the 1800s onwards, in areas ranging from French-colonial Vietnam to nineteenth-century Northern British Columbia, from New Zealand fresh air camps to American health fairs. Themes include: the role of government and/or the private sector in initiating and underwriting child public health programs; the growth of the profession of paediatrics and its views on 'proper' mothering techniques; the role of nationalism, as well as ethnic and racial dimensions in child-saving movements; normative behaviour, social control, and the treatment of 'deviant' children and adolescents; poverty, wealth, and child health measures; and the development of the modern children’s hospital. This liberally illustrated collection reflects the growing academic interest in all aspects of childhood, especially child health, and originates from health care professionals and scholars across the disciplines. An introduction by the editors places the historical themes in context and offers an overview of the contemporary study of children’s health. { 620pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £25.50, 0889204748:9780889204744 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CHINA DIARY : The Life of Mary Austin Endicott [Shirley Jane Endicott] { 250pp, 155x230mm, February 2002; PB, £14.99, 0889204128:9780889204126 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CIRCLES OF TIME : Aboriginal Land Rights & Resistance in Ontario [David T McNab] { 280pp, 155x230mm, May 1999; PB, £20.99, 0889203385:9780889203389 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CLAIMING SPACE : Racialization in Canadian Cities [Cheryl Teeluckshingh (ed)] Critically examines the various ways in which Canadian cities continue to be racialised despite objective evidence of racial diversity and the dominant ideology of multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadian cities are simultaneously part of, and influenced by, racial domination and racial resistance. Reflecting on the ways in which race is systematically hidden within the workings of Canadian cities, the book also explores the ways in which racialised people attempt to claim space. These essays cover a diverse range of Canadian urban spaces and various racial groups, as well as the intersection of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Linking themes include issues related to subjectivity and space; the importance of new space that arises by challenging the dominant ideology of multiculturalism; and the relationship between diasporic identities and claims to space. { 245pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £19.50, 0889204993:9780889204997 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CLINICAL PASTORAL SUPERVISION & THE THEOLOGY OF CHARLES GERKIN [Thomas St James O'Connor] In the last twenty years, the number of texts written on clinical pastoral supervision has accelerated. Thomas St James O'Connor analyses these texts, nearly 300 of them, in light of three fundamental questions about the praxis of clinical pastoral supervision: what is distinctive about the praxis? what is an appropriate theological method for the praxis? and, what is an adequate praxis? In doing so, he formulates three approaches: the social science, the hermeneutic and the special interest. Looking at the theology of Charles Gerkin, a pastoral theologian and family therapist, O'Connor develops a conversation between Gerkin's theology and the texts. The theological methods in the three approaches are critiqued and Gerkin's praxis/theory/praxis method is endorsed. Case examples are used throughout to illustrate theory and issues discussed and to aid in the presentation of an adequate praxis. Clinical Pastoral Supervision and the Theology of Charles Gerkin provides a unique overview of the history and current state of clinical pastoral supervision and an understanding of its methodology and theological foundations. More than that, it builds on the practical theory of Charles Gerkin, expanding it for immediate use in the practice of ministry. { 152pp, 155x230mm, March 1998; PB, £22.99, 0889203105:9780889203105 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CLOTHED IN INTEGRITY : Weaving Just Cultural Relations & the Garment Industry [Barbara Paleczny] Paleczny assesses the responsibility of transnational retailers for unacceptable wages and working conditions and describes historic shifts in the global context of garment production. After exploring systemic causes of poverty, relevant policy setting, and ethical foundations, Paleczny introduces both short- and long-range possibilities for transformation, emphasizing the collaborative nature of work. CLOTHED IN INTEGRITY draws on feminist studies, alternative economics, and the ethical foundations proposed by Bernard Lonergan to fashion a constructive work in which Paleczny connects issues of societal meanings and values, moral imperatives, and economic feasibility. { 358pp, 155x230mm, November 2000; PB, £28.99, 0889203407:9780889203402 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| COLLECTIVE AUTONOMY : A History of the Council of Ontario Universities, 1962-2000 [Edward Monahan] Chronicles the rise and decline of Ontario universities from the halcyon 1960s to the Common Sense Revolution through the history of its planning association, the Council of Ontario Universities. Collective Autonomy: A History of the Council of Ontario Universities, 1962-2000 is the first full-length account of an organisation that has played a major role in the development of the university system in Ontario. Edward J Monahan served as the council's chief executive officer for over fifteen years. This is his insider's account, enhanced by archival material, of the key role the universities played in planning the high academic quality of the Ontario provincial university system. Collective Autonomy traces the evolution of Ontario universities over a period of forty years, from the halcyon days of the 1960s, during which massive injections of public funds transformed these institutions from ivory towers to public utilities, through the 1970s and '80s when universities were downgraded as a government spending priority and problems began to develop. It concludes by looking at the problems created by the 'Common Sense Revolution' and the resulting severe cutbacks in government grants to universities. It chronicles the efforts of the universities to preserve their autonomy while expanding their service to the common good, and their efforts to maintain the delicate balance between university autonomy and public accountability. { 240pp, 155x230mm, June 2004; HB, £49.99, 0889204438:9780889204430 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| COMMITTED TO THE SANE ASYLUM : Narratives on Mental Wellness & Healing [Susan Schellenberg & Rosemary Barnes] Artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. Interwoven patient/doctor narratives explain conventional care, highlight critical steps in healing, and explore varied perspectives through conversations with experts in psychiatry, feminist approaches, art, storytelling, and business. The book also includes reproductions of Susan's mental health records and dream paintings. This book will be important for consumers of mental health care wishing to understand the conventional system and develop the best quality of life. Rich personal detail, critical perspective, clinical records, and art reproductions make the book engaging for a general audience and stimulating as a teaching resource in nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and art therapy. { 280pp, 155x230mm, November 2008; PB, £17.99, 155458034X:9781554580347 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| COSTA RICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, SOCIAL JUSTICE, & THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS, 1979-1996 [Dana Sawchuk] Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State -- between priests, popes, politics, and the people. This book does just that. Dana Sawchuk chronicles the fortunes of the country's two competing forms of labour organisations during the 1980s and demonstrates how different factions within the Church came to support either the union movement or Costa Rica's home-grown Solidarity movement. Challenging the conventional understanding of Costa Rica as a wholly peaceful and prosperous nation, and traditional interpretations of Catholic Social Teaching, this book introduces readers to a Church largely unknown outside Costa Rica. Sawchuk has carefully analysed material from a multitude of sources -- interviews, newspapers, books, and articles, as well as official Church documents, editorials, and statements by Church representativesto provide a firmly rooted socio-economic history of the experiences of workers, and the Catholic Church's responses to workers in Costa Rica. { 276pp, 155x230mm, October 2004; HB, £49.99, 0889204454:9780889204454 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| COUNTERREALISM & INDO-ANGLIAN FICTION [Chelva Kanaganayakam] What do R K Narayan, G V Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counter-realist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms. { 213pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; HB, £49.99, 0889203989:9780889203983 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CRIME OF CRIMES : Demonology & Politics in France 1560-1620 [Jonathan L Pearl] { 181pp, 155x230mm, March 1999; HB, £49.99, 0889202966:9780889202962 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CRISP DAY CLOSING ON MY HAND : The Poetry of M Travis Lane [Jeanette Lynes (ed)] This collection of thirty-five of Lane’s best poems is selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of 'home' in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane’s poems exhibit impressive range and variety -- long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art -- and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild. In her introduction 'As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve', editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane’s poetry integrates an eco-poetic vision with explorations of the artist’s task of mapping her world. Lane’s afterword reinforces her sense of the poet’s project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the 'unified disunities' of all things. { 82pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £8.99, 1554580250:9781554580255 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CRITICAL MASS : The Emergence of Global Civil Society [James W St G Walker & Andrew S Thompson (eds)] Public concern about inequitable economic globalisation has revealed the demand for citizen participation in global decision making. Civil society organisations have taken up the challenge, holding governments and corporations accountable for their decisions and actions, and developing collaborative solutions to the dominant problems of our time. "Critical Mass" offers a unique mixture of experience and analysis by the leaders of some of the most influential global civil society organisations and respected academics who specialise in this field of study. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. { 299pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £21.99, 1554580226:9781554580224 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CROSS & THE RISING SUN, VOLUME 1 : The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931 [A Hamish Ion] REVIEW: "It is a look from outside, not from within -- sometimes cynical, sometimes appreciative -- but a valuable historical book for reference and study..." -- Theological Book Review. { 276pp, 155x230mm, March 1990; HB, £49.99, 0889209774:9780889209770 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CROSS IN THE DARK VALLEY : The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire 1931-1945 [A Hamish Ion] In this pioneer study, Ion investigates the experience of the Canadians who were part of the Protestant missionary movement in the Japanese Empire. He sheds new light on the dramatic challenges faced by foreign missionaries and Japanese Christians alike in what was the watershed period in the religious history of twentieth-century East Asia. The Cross in the Dark Valley delivers significant lessons for Christian and missionary movements in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe which even now have to contend with oppression from authoritarian regimes and with hostility. This new book by A Hamish Ion, written with objectivity and scholarly competence, will be of interest to all scholars of Japanese-Canadian relations and missionary studies as well as to general historians. { 428pp, 155x230mm, February 1999; HB, £49.99, 088920294X:9780889202948 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE ON HEALTH CARE ETHICS [Harold Coward (ed)] The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed. A CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE ON HEALTH CARE ETHICS provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions, It encourages the development of global awareness and sensitivity to and respect for the diversity of peoples and their values and will advance understanding as well as help to foster a greater balance and a fuller truth in consideration of the human condition and what makes for health and wholeness. { 274pp, 155x230mm, April 1999; PB, £22.99, 0889203253:9780889203259 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CROSS-CURRENTS : Hydroelectricity & the Engineering of Northern Ontario [Jean L Manore] Most activities in our lives involve electricity. Yet, how often do we recall that even the simple act of turning on a light is supported by a long history of debates over group vs individual rights, environmental impact, political agendas and technological innovations? Using the image of cross-currents as the organising metaphor, this book details the many and often turbulent interactions and interconnections that occurred among the various people and events during the building of the northeastern Ontario hydroelectric system. Special focus is on Native and non-Native interests; southern business and political elites; northern natural resources and the interactions between technology and the environment. Manore concentrates on the co-operation that existed among the various interest groups during periods of expansion and amalgamation. In today's environment of limited energy resources, respect for the rights of First Nations and ecological concerns, this book is a reminder that co-operation rather than conquest is a more realistic approach to development. { 209pp, 155x230mm, March 1999; HB, £49.99, 0889203172:9780889203174 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CRUEL BUT NOT UNUSUAL : Violence in Canadian Families [Ramona Alaggia & Cathy Vine (ed)] Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population -- from very young children to the elderly. Although no one is immune to violence, some groups are particularly vulnerable. This is the first book to offer a national survey of the latest research and practice, and it reflects on the patriarchal roots and societal conditions in Canada that have led to the long-standing abuse of women and children. While feminist theories provide an overarching framework, a broad range of approaches is offered to examine and respond to critical aspects of this serious social problem. Topics include: systemic oppression of Aboriginal families and communities; violence in a francophone minority context; child corporal punishment; abuse in the lives of people with disabilities; the objectification of older adults; mother blaming; intimate violence in same-sex relationships; and new approaches to solving the problem of violence in Canadian families. { 522pp, 155x230mm, April 2006; PB, £22.99, 0889204039:9780889204034 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| CURTAIN : Witness & Memory in Wartime Holland [Henry G Schogt] The seven stories in The Curtain reveal how two families -- one Jewish, and non-Jewish -- fared in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War 2. Each vignette highlights a specific aspect of life; all show how life changed for everyone, and forever. { 131pp, 155x230mm, May 2003; PB, £14.99, 0889203962:9780889203969 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DANCING FEAR & DESIRE : Race, Sexuality, & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance [Stavros Stavrou Karayanni] Reads belly dance through postcolonialism and queer theory. Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals. Evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion, this profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance -- an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through literary criticism, historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde's Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. { 244pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £20.99, 0889204543:9780889204546 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DANGEROUS FOOD : 1 Corinthians 8-10 in Its Context [Peter D Gooch] Recognising the social meaning of food and meals in Greco-Roman culture and, in particular, the social meaning of idol-food, is an integral part of understanding the impact of Paul's instructions to the Christian community at Corinth regarding the consumption of idol-food. Gooch uses a social-historical approach to determine what idol-food was, and what it meant to eat or avoid it. He argues that the Corinthians rejected Paul's instructions to avoid facing significant social liabilities. In opposition to a well-entrenched scholarly consensus, Gooch claims that although Paul had abandoned purity rules concerning food, he would not abandon Judaism's cultural and religious understanding concerning idol-food. { 178pp, 155x230mm, November 1993; PB, £22.99, 0889202192:9780889202191 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DANTE & THE UNORTHODOX : The Aesthetics of Transgression [James Miller (ed)] During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned -- this time as a heretic and false prophet -- by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani's inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia 'seduced' his readers by offering them a 'vessel of demonic poison' mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the 'healthful truth' of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante's poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante's allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed 'way of salvation'. Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book's sixteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet's conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of 'secret things', by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani. { 566pp, 155x235mm, May 2005; HB, £49.99, 0889204578:9780889204577 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DEAR EDITOR & FRIENDS : Letters From Rural Women of the North-West, 1900-1920 [Norah L Lewis (ed)] { 166pp, 155x230mm, April 1998; PB, £19.50, 0889202877:9780889202870 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DEPICTING CANADA'S CHILDREN [Loren Lerner (ed)] This is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognising the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children. { 475pp, 190x255mm, February 2009; HB, £55.99, 1554580501:9781554580507 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DESIRE FOR DEVELOPMENT : Whiteness, Gender, & the Helping Imperative [Barbara Heron] Heron draws on post-structuralist 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 of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants. She posits that the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the North-South binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the 'good guys' of the world. { 191pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; PB, £19.50, 1554580013:9781554580019 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DESIRE NEVER LEAVES : The Poetry of Tim Lilburn [Tim Lilburn; Edited by Alison Calder] The selected poems in "Desire Never Leaves" span Tim Lilburn's career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation's premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his works, providing insight into a poetic world that is both spectacular and humbling. The introduction by Alison Calder situates Lilburn's writing in an alternate tradition of prairie poetry that relies less on the vernacular and more on philosophy and meditation. Examining Lilburn's antecedents in Christian mysticism and the ascetic tradition, Calder stresses the paradoxical nature of Lilburn's writing -- the expression of loss through plenitude. The divine in the natural world is glimpsed in brief flashes; nevertheless, the poet, driven by love, continues his quest for what glitters in things. Tim Lilburn's afterword is an evocative meditation grounded in personal history. He speaks of how poetry, a craning quiet, allows one to hear what is alive in the world. He also describes how poetry is resolutely attached to both a historical moment and an individual subjectivity that is inevitably anchored in time. Lilburn's poetry is both a religious undertaking and a political gesture that speaks to the urgency of situating ourselves where we live. { 49pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £8.99, 0889205140:9780889205147 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DILEMAS OF RECONCILIATION : Cases & Concepts [Carol A L Prager & Trudy Govier (eds)] 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, or expelled from their homes, this book explores the possibility of forgiveness. The contributors to this book draw upon the insights of history, political science, philosophy, and psychology to examine the trauma left in the wake of such actions, using, as examples, numerous case studies from the Holocaust, Russia, Cambodia, Guatemala, South Africa, and even Canada. They consider the fundamental psychological and philosophical issues that have to be confronted, offer insights about measures that can be taken to facilitate healing, and summarize what has been learned from previous struggles. { 360pp, 155x230mm, April 2003; PB, £25.50, 0889204152:9780889204157 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DISSONANT WORLDS : Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree [Earle H Waugh] When Roger Vandersteene arrived in the wilderness of northern Canada in 1946 he found an aboriginal spirituality that inspired his own poetic and artistic nature which encouraged him to pursue a religious vision that united Cree tradition and Catholicism. Until his death in 1976, Vandersteen attempted, through his paintings, poetry and liturgical modifications, to ground Christian ideas in Cree imagery and spirituality. Dissonant Worlds: traces the remarkable career of Vandersteene and his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and folkways, his status as a Cree medicine man, and the evolution of his views on the relationship between aboriginal traditions and Roman Catholicism. Above all, Dissonant Worlds traces Vandersteene's quest to build a new religious reality: a strong, spiritually powerful Cree church, a magnificent Cree formation of Christian life. { 344pp, 155x230mm, April 1997; PB, £22.99, 0889202788:9780889202788 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DIVERSE WORLDS OF UNEMPLOYED ADULTS : Consequences of Leisure, Lifestyles, & Well-being [Mark E Havitz, Peter A Morden & Diane M Samdahl] Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure, how might it mitigate the negative effects of unemployment? And what form, then, would that leisure take? The relationship between leisure and unemployment has not received the attention it merits, especially in North America. Because research on leisure and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoretical perspectives, it can often seem conflicting and inconclusive. Yet the need for an understanding of that relationship remains. This groundbreaking book addresses that need. The authors describe the sometimes surprising results of their multi-method study of the effects of unemployment on leisure, lifestyle, and well-being within Canada, and integrate those results with literature collected worldwide into a comprehensive picture. Using in-depth interviews, quantitative experience sampling, and standardised questionnaire data, this fascinating book provides ample evidence that the lived experiences of the unemployed are incredibly diverse, and the need for leisure is as intense for them as for the employed. The authors also pinpoint changes in public policy and social service agency management at local, provincial, and federal levels that will better serve unemployed people and their dependants, and enable them to use leisure activities to improve their lives. { 259pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £25.50, 0889204640:9780889204645 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DOING ETHICS IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD : Essays in Honour of Roger C Hutchinson [Phyllis Airhart, Marily J Legge & Gary L Redcliffe (eds)] { 259pp, 155x230mm, May 2002; HB, £49.99, 0889204101:9780889204102 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| DOMINION OF YOUTH : Adolescence & the Making of a Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 [Cynthia Comacchio] This book captures what it meant for young Canadians to inhabit this liminal stage of life within the context of a young nation caught up in the self-formation and historic transformation that would make modern Canada. Because the young at this time were seen paradoxically as both the hope of the nation and the source of its possible degeneration, new policies and institutions were developed to deal with the 'problem of youth'. This history considers how young Canadians made the transition to adulthood during a period that was 'developmental' -- both for youth and for a nation also working toward individuation. During the years considered here, those who occupied this 'dominion' of youth would see their experiences more clearly demarcated by generation and culture than ever before. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio offers the first detailed study of adolescence in early-twentieth-century Canada and demonstrates how young Canadians of the period became the nation's first modern teenagers. { 298pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; HB, £38.50, 0889204888:9780889204881 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EAGLE MINDS : Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt & George Rochberg (1961-2005) [Alan M Gillmor (ed)] EAGLE MINDS -- a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg -- is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gifted individuals. Beginning in 1961 and spanning forty-four years, their conversation embraces not only music but other forms of contemporary art, as well as politics, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. The letters chronicle the deepening of their friendship over the years, and the openness, honesty, and genuine warmth between them provide the reader with an intimate look at their personalities. A fascinating intellectual tension emerges between the two men as they record their individual responses to musical modernism, to changing political and social realities, and to their Jewish heritage and sense of place, one as a son of Ukrainian immigrants to the United States, the other as a refugee from war-torn Hungary. Allowing us a privileged glimpse into the private lives and thoughts of these fascinating men, "Eagle Minds" is a valuable tool for scholars interested in North American composers in the late twentieth century and essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural and social history of that era. { 426pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; HB, £49.99, 1554580188:9781554580187 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EARLY MODERN CONCEPTS FOR A LATE MODERN WORLD : Althusius on Community & Federalism [Thomas O Hueglin] Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a political theorist and a combative city politician who defended the rights of small communities against territorial absolutism. He designed a system of politics in which sovereignty would be shared and jointly exercised by a plurality of collectivities, spatial as well as social, on the basis of mutual consent and social solidarity. Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World places Althusius in the context of his times and explains the main features of his political thought. It also suggests, perhaps most significantly, why his theories continue to resonate today. Hueglin's use of sources is thorough and scrupulous and provides a new interpretation of Althusius' theory. REVIEW: "Hueglin has done a magnificent job in unearthing Althusius' original views... The result is a book of especial relevance for the postmodern world. Hueglin has combined meticulous scholarship with clarity of expression and originality of understanding..." -- Antony Black, University of Dundee. { 265pp, 155x230mm, January 1999; HB, £49.99, 0889203229:9780889203228 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EARTH, WATER, AIR & FIRE : Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory [David T McNab (ed)] { 342pp, 150x230mm, January 1998; PB, £23.50, 0889202974:9780889202979 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EARTHLY PAGES : The Poetry of Don Domanski [Don Domanski; Edited by Brian Bartlett] With "The Cape Breton Book of the Dead", Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski's poetry has deepened and expanded, with longer lines and more complex structures that journey into the far reaches of metaphor. Now, with "Earthly Pages", the long-awaited first selection from his books, readers have a chance to experience the full range of his work in one volume. Editor Brian Bartlett, in his introduction discusses Domanski's engagement with nature and the transformative power of his metaphors; his poetic bestiary and mythical underpinnings; and his kinship to poets like Stevens, Whitman, and Rumi. Like these poets, Domanski is drawn to borderlands between the physical and the spiritual, the unconscious and the conscious. His poetry finds a home for demons and angels, spiders and wolves -- and for kitchens and back alleys, forests and stars. In language both fluent and hypnotic, Domanski maintains an awareness of both the magnitudes and the minutiae that live beyond language. In "Flying Over Language", an essay written specifically for this volume, the poet explains that for him metaphor is one way to suggest the wealth of being that poetry can only point toward. { 60pp, 155x230mm, August 2007; PB, £8.99, 1554580080:9781554580088 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EDWARD SCHILLEBEECKX & HANS FREI : A Conversation on Method & Christology [Marguerite Abdul-Masih] This book addresses the relationship between theological method and experience. { 187pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £25.50, 0889203768:9780889203761 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EMERGING POWERS IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE : Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process [Andrew F Cooper & Agata Antkiewicz (eds)] The early twenty-first century has seen the beginning of a considerable shift in the global balance of power. Major international governance challenges can no longer be addressed without the ongoing co-operation of the large countries of the global South. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, ASEAN states, and Mexico wield great influence in the macro-economic foundations upon which rest the global political economy and institutional architecture. It remains to be seen how the size of the emerging powers translates into the ability to shape the international system to their own will. In this book, leading international relations experts examine the positions and roles of key emerging countries in the potential transformation of the G8 and the prospects for their deeper engagement in international governance. The essays consider a number of overlapping perspectives on the G8 Heiligendamm Process, a co-operation agreement that originated from the 2007 summit, and offer an in-depth look at the challenges and promises presented by the rise of the emerging powers. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. { 285pp, 155x230mm, October 2008; PB, £23.50, 1554580579:9781554580576 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CANADIAN SOCIAL WORK [Francis J Turner (ed)] All are touched throughout their lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in Canada, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of society. Even professionals in the field of social work or social services have not had a comprehensive volume addressing the myriad features of this critical societal structure. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work fills this need. Over five hundred topics important to Canadian social work are covered, written by a highly diverse group of social workers covering all aspects of the field and all areas of the country. Practitioners, policy makers, academics, social advocates, researchers, students, and administrators present a rich overview of the complexity and diversity of social work and social welfare as it exists in Canada. The principal finding from this project underscores the long-held perception that there is a Canadian model of social work that is unique and stands as a useful model to other countries. The Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work will be an important source of information, both to Canadians and to interested groups around the world. { 447pp, 180x235mm, September 2005; HB, £88.50, 0889204365:9780889204362 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ERNEST BUCKLER : Rediscovery & Reassessment [Marta Dvorak] A reassessment of the wide scope of Canadian novelist, Ernest Buckler { 279pp, 155x230mm, September 2001; HB, £49.99, 0889203547:9780889203549 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ESSENTIAL SONG : Three Decades of Northern Cree Music [Lynn Whidden] Book and CD. This unique book presents a culturally significant outline of Cree musical history and an important contribution to ethnomusicology, social history, and Aboriginal studies. CD contains over 80 Cree hunting songs. { 174pp, 155x230mm, March 2007; HB, £49.99, 0889204594:9780889204591 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| ETHICS OF THE NEW ECONOMY : Restructuring & Beyond [Leo Groarke (ed)] { 332pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £22.99, 0889203113:9780889203112 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EVAN MACDONALD : A Painter's Life [Flora MacDonald Spencer] A master draughtsman, artist Evan Macdonald had extraordinary facility as a painter, printmaker, and book illustrator. Born in Guelph, Ontario, in 1905, to one of the city's founding Scottish families, Macdonald was a young contemporary of the Group of Seven and pursued his practice in Canada during the Great Depression. He joined the Second World War as an artist-soldier. After the war, Macdonald became a professional portraitist, fulfilling commissions from heads of government, industry, and academia. His paintings chronicling the destruction of Guelph's historical buildings in the 1950s and 60s both celebrate industrial progress and lament the loss of nineteenth-century craftsmanship. This is a richly illustrated chronicle of Macdonald's life and work from the perspective of the artist's daughter, Flora Macdonald Spencer, whose insightful essay creates a lasting image of a great Canadian artist. The book offers a unique perspective on the history of Guelph as well as commentary on one of the city's founding families, their Scottish ancestry, and the establishment and evolution of twentieth-century social and cultural ideals. { 126pp, 205x230mm, May 2008; PB, £17.99, 155458048X:9781554580484 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EVANGELICAL BALANCE SHEET : Character, Family, & Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia [B Anne Wood] Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, "Evangelical Balance Sheet" explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf's diary, with its daily weather observations, its account of family matters, of social and business happenings, and of his own experiences, as well as occasional literary or naturalistic forays, attempts to follow a disciplined regime of writing, but also has elements of a Bildungsroman. The diary reveals an obvious and significant tension between his inner, spiritual search for meaning in his life (evangelical inwardness) and his outward stewardship duties. Rudolf's concept of character, then, involved a type of balance sheet of his evangelical service record, to his God, his family, his business, and his community. Needing God's help to transform his will and to interpret the world in a constructive, rational manner, the underlying intent of his daily journal writing was to keep his commitment to an ethic of benevolence and of the affirmation of the goodness of human beings. Wood elucidates the cultivation of civic-minded masculinity in the context of Victorian Maritime Canada, analysing the multiple facets of the character ideal and emphasising its important role in Victorians' understanding of their life experiences. In the process Wood reveals many underlying assumptions about social change and about civic discourse. The book also describes how the tremendous economic upheavals experienced by many entrepreneurs in the late 1860s to 1880s tempered their evangelical zeal and made it increasingly difficult for them to achieve a balanced and humane perspective on their own lives. The book will appeal to a broad audience interested in social history, imperial studies, gender studies (especially changing ideas of masculinity and manhood), Atlantic Canada studies, and local history of the Pictou region. { 197pp, 155x230mm, August 2006; HB, £38.50, 0889205000:9780889205000 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EVERY GRAIN OF SAND : Canadian Perspectives on Ecology & Environment [J A Wainwright (ed)] Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognisable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals' love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. Subjects include activism in Cape Breton, ecofeminism, Native perspectives on the history of humans' relationship with the natural world, the inconsistency of humankind's affinity with nature alongside its capacity to destroy, and scientific and traditional accounts of evolution and how they can come together for the welfare of Earth's ecology. These essays encourage us to break down the power-based divisions of centre versus marginal politics, to talk with our perceived enemies in environmental wars, to consider activism as a personal commitment, and to resist the construction of a 'post-natural' world. Using a combination of personal memoirs and formal essays, 'Every Grain of Sand' seeks to involve readers in the extraordinary places they inhabit -- and usually take for granted -- and will appeal to both the general reader and to students in humanities, social sciences, and environmental studies. It is unique for its presentation of entirely Canadian perspectives on ecology and environmental issues. { 181pp, 155x230mm, November 2004; PB, £14.99, 0889204535:9780889204539 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| EXPORTING GOOD GOVERNANCE : Temptations & Challenges in Canada's Aid Program [Jennifer Welsh & Ngaire Woods (eds)] Can good governance be exported? International development assistance is more frequently being applied to strengthening governance in developing countries, and in EXPORTING GOOD GOVERNANCE, the editors bring together diverse perspectives to investigate whether aid for good governance works. The first section of the book outlines the changing face of international development assistance and ideas of good governance. The second section analyses six nations: three are countries to which Canada has devoted a significant portion of its aid efforts over the past five to ten years: Ghana, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. Two are newer and more complex 'fragile states', where Canada has engaged: Haiti and Afghanistan. These five are then compared with Mauritius, which has enjoyed relatively good governance. The final section looks at challenges and new directions for Canada's development policy. { 343pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £23.50, 1554580293:9781554580293 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FAITH & FICTION : A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan & Morley Callaghan [Barbara Pell] { 141pp, 155x230mm, November 1998; PB, £19.50, 0889203075:9780889203075 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FAKU : Rulership & Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c1780-1867) [Timothy J Stapleton] { 198pp, 155x230mm, March 2001; HB, £49.99, 0889203458:9780889203457 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FEMALE CRUCIFIX : Images of St Wilgefortis Since the Middle Ages [Ilse E Friesen] This title examines the phenomenon of St. Wilgefortis froman art historical perspective. { 173pp, 155x230mm, May 2001; HB, £49.99, 0889203652:9780889203655 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FEMININE GAZE : A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors & Their Books, 1836-1945 [Anne Innis Dagg (ed)] A compendium of non-fiction Canadian women authors and their books, including brief biographies of the women, short descriptions of their books, and a comprehensive index of their books' subject matters. { 346pp, 155x230mm, September 2001; HB, £49.99, 0889203555:9780889203556 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FIELD MARKS : The Poetry of Don McKay [Meira Cook (ed)] This volume features thirty-five of Don McKays best poems, which are selected with a contextualising introduction by Mira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process -- its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis. { 88pp, 155x230mm, April 2006; PB, £8.99, 0889204942:9780889204942 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FILMS OF STAN BRAKHAGE IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION OF EZRA POUND, GERTRUDE STEIN, & CHARLES OLSON [R Bruce Elder] Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work -- some seventy hours -- is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably the most widely quoted experimental filmmaker in history, his films typify the independent cinema. Until now, despite well-deserved acclaim, there has been no comprehensive study of Brakhage's oeuvre. The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition fills this void. R Bruce Elder delineates the aesthetic parallels between Brakhage's films and a broad spectrum of American art from the 1920s through the 1960s. This book is certain to stir the passions of those interested in artistic critique and interpretation in its broadest terms. { 572pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; HB, £49.99, 0889202753:9780889202757 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE : An Introduction to Her Life & Family [Lynn McDonald (ed)] Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale's life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform concerns on which she worked from her 'call to service' at age sixteen to old age. This volume reports correspondence (selected from the thousands of surviving letters) with her mother, father and sister and a wide extended family. There is material on Nightingale's 'domestic arrangements', from recipes, cat care and relations with servants to her contributions to charities, church and social reform causes. Much new and original material comes to light, and a remarkably different portrait of Nightingale, one with a more nuanced view of her family relationships, emerges. { 920pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; HB, £73.99, 0889203873:9780889203877 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |
| FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE & HOSPITAL REFORM ((Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 16)) [Lynn McDonald (ed)] The 'Collected Works of Florence Nightingale' series demonstrates Nightingale's astute use of the political process and report on her extensive correspondence with royalty, viceroys, cabinet ministers and international leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W E Gladstone. It will also contain a great deal of new material on family relations. Sixteen printed volumes are scheduled and will record her enormous and largely unpublished correspondence, previously published books, articles and pamphlets, many of which have long been out of print. There will be full publication in electronic form, permitting readers to easily pursue their particular interests. Extensive databases, notably a chronology and a names index, will also be published in electronic form, again permitting convenient access to persons interested not only in Nightingale but in other figures of the time. The series will confirm Nightingale as an important and significant nineteenth-century scholar and illustrate how she integrated her scholarship with political activism. Indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader, it will show there is much more to know about Florence Nightingale than the 'lady with the lamp'. { 155x230mm, August 2011; HB, £88.50, 0889204713:9780889204713 , Wilfrid Laurier University Press } |