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Télécharger le livre :  Haiti
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Haiti


Yasmine Shamsie , Andrew S. Thompson


“This book...avoids the political debates about Jean-Bertrand Aristide that dominate so many current writings about Haiti. Its focus is the society itself, the sources of difference, the origins of violence, and the possibility of change....The superb work done by the...

Parution : 2011-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Depicting Canada’s Children
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Depicting Canada’s Children


Loren Lerner


Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood...

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Télécharger le livre :  Developments in Buddhist Thought
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Developments in Buddhist Thought


Roy C. Amore


Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought. Part I, “On Being,” discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, Madhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mahayana Buddhism....

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition
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Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition


Martin Puhvel


The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Franz Kafka (1883-1983)
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Franz Kafka (1883-1983)


Roman Struc , John Yardley


The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Brothers Beyond the Sea
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Brothers Beyond the Sea


Jonathan F. Wagner


During the years 1933 to 1939, a pro-Nazi movement developed in Canada. With the support of the German National Socialist Party, Canadian pro-Nazi institutions were formed: clubs, rallies, schools, and newspapers. The movement ended in failure. The author analyzes the...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Averroës’ Doctrine of Immortality
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Averroës’ Doctrine of Immortality


Ovey N. Mohammed


The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Muslim Ethics and Modernity
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Muslim Ethics and Modernity


Sheila Mcdonough


A study of modern Muslim ethics, focussed upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this monograph  sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  War and International Justice
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War and International Justice


Brian Orend


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...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia
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The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia


Stanley Barrett


In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism
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Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism


Leslie Kawamura


Har Dayal's The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature published in 1931 was the first extensive study in English of the Bodhisattva doctrine. Dayal discussed the Bodhisattva doctrine as it was expounded in the Buddhist Sanskrit texts, and it remains a...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Readings in Russian Philosophical Thought
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Readings in Russian Philosophical Thought


Louis Shein


A collection of readings in Russian philosophical thought.

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish
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The Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish


Donovan E. Smucker


The editor provides an important new scholarly tool for locating and understanding the enormous expansion of scholarly research dealing with the sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish. Although the book includes research from American scholars, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Jews and French Quebecers
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Jews and French Quebecers


Jacques Langlais , David Rome


Jews and French Quebecers recounts a saga of intense interest for the whole of Canada, let alone societies elsewhere. This work, now translated into English, represents the viewpoints of two friends from differing cultural and religious traditions. One is a French...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World
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Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World


Waldemar Heckel , Richard Sullivan


Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of coinage gave men freedom to move beyond their communities, served as a propaganda tool for advancing armies and visually...

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Télécharger le livre :  Christ and Modernity
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Christ and Modernity


David J. Hawkin


In this re–examination of the roots of the relationship between religion and science, David Hawkin focuses on the concept of autonomy as he explores the question: Is there continuity and compatibility between the autonomy that underlies Christian faith and the role of...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ogoki River Guides
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The Ogoki River Guides


Edward J. Hedican


The Ogoki River Guides describes the prolonged struggle that members of a small native community in northern Ontario have undertaken in their attempt to establish a viable local economy. The leaders of Collins, the community in which the events of the book take place,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Religion
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Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Religion


John Williams


Following a critical review of previous theological scholarship on Heidegger and a survey of North American philosophy of religion, the book examines Heidegger’s philosophy of religion and its influence on the North American variety of the same.

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Télécharger le livre :  A Karenina Companion
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A Karenina Companion


C.J.G. Turner


Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of the Visible Past
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In Search of the Visible Past


Barry Gough


This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973–1974, given by the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. These were given by leading scholars in their individual fields and are...

Parution : 2010-10-30
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