Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Book of Gomorrah
An Eleventh-Century Treatise against Clerical Homosexual Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Some of the roots of the characteristic negative attitude to homosexuality can be found in Peter Damian’s appeal to Pope Leo IX. Though written 900 years ago by an Italian monk in a remote corner of Italy, The Book of Gomorrah is relevant to contemporary discussion of homosexuality.
The Book...
War and International Justice
A Kantian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Can war ever be just? By what right do we charge people with war crimes? Can war itself be a crime? What is a good peace treaty?
Since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many wars have erupted, inflaming such areas as the Persian Gulf, Central Africa and Central Europe. Brutalities committed...
Discipline, Devotion, and Dissent
Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic Schooling in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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The Changed Context for Jewish Day School Education
Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor
Alex Pomson and Randal Schnoor discuss tensions about values, commitments and expectations at the Downtown Jewish Day School, a pluralistic, community day school in Toronto. The tensions made...
by John Horman
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This book uncovers an early collection of sayings, called N, that are ascribed to Jesus and are similar to those found in the Gospel of Thomas and in Q, a document believed to be a common source, with Mark, for Matthew and Luke. In the process, the book sheds light on the literary methods of Mark...
Voices and Echoes
Canadian Women’s Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword
Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape of their spiritual lives. Experienced writers such as Lorna Crozier, Di Brandt and Ann Copeland,...
by Lydia Dotto
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be clearer, if not necessarily easier...
Beyond the Altar
Women Religious, Patriarchal Power, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Roman Catholic Church still lacks progress on the subject of gender inclusivity despite new Pope's progressive ideas
Presents Canadian stories, which have been relatively unreported due to the quietness of the Canadian nuns publicly -- this book gives them a chance to speak
Ideas and critiques in this...
by Roger Herz-Fischler
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined?
Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great Pyramid. Even though some...
Terrier Town
Summer of ’49
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Debate still rages on about who invented baseball. But one thing is certain...it was alive and fractious in southwestern Ontario in the summer of 1949.
It was a remarkable summer. For Charlie Hodge, just finishing his last year of high school, the summer of 1949 begins with great fanfare and...
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before
Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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Sewing the Seeds of Health as a Right: The Origins of Health Care in Cuba
Robert Huish
This is a historical overview of the Cuban health care system, its evolution through various political regimes and how medical internationalism evolved from a strong domestic commitment to health care.
Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World
Canada and Research Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Long-Term Solutions for a Short-Term World demonstrates the complexity of the challenges that poor countries face and introduces the readers to the concept and impact of participatory research for development. Participatory research requires researchers to work with communities, governments, and other...
Spirituality in Social Work and Education
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
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Prisoners of the Story: A Role for Spirituality in Thinking and Living our Way to Sustainability
John Coates
Coates, reflecting on the role of spirituality in addressing environmental challenges in an effective and substantial way, reinforces that notion that spirituality...
The Ethics of the New Economy
Restructuring and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Is restructuring an underhanded way to make the rich richer and the poor poorer? Or is it necessary, although bitter, medicine for an ailing economy?
In The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring and Beyond, professionals from the fields of philosophy, ethics, management, as well as those...
The Parent Track
Timing, Balance, and Choice in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives—gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation—and at different phases of a parent’s academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of...