Mqup imprint: 803 books
Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems
Economic Development and Policy Implementation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The past two decades have witnessed dramatic shifts in public policy, with increasing complexity not only in the relationships between the state, society, and the private sector, but also in the interactions among various orders of government in places such as Canada, the United States, and the European...
Defining Work
Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Based on interviews with forty rural Protestant clergy, Mellow argues that male and female clergy challenge gendered definitions of work by focusing on obligation, context, visibility, and time. She also considers how clergy's work is shaped by the rural setting, arguing that we must consider how work is "placed" as well as gendered.
Easy Prey Investors
Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Over the past twenty-five years, a series of actions, omissions, and failures by Canada’s lawmakers and the purported gatekeepers of investors' rights have left Canadians' investments, pensions, and retirement savings at greater risk. Bodies such as provincial securities commissions have abandoned...
An Undisciplined Economist
Robert G. Evans on Health Economics, Health Care Policy, and Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
For four decades Robert Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally. An Undisciplined Economist collects sixteen of Evans’s most important contributions,...
The Equal Parent Presumption
Social Justice in the Legal Determination of Parenting after Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In custody battles over the children of separated parents, the prevailing standard of evaluating what is in the "best interests of the child" has been scrutinized because of the discretionary nature of what is "best" and because of the bias in favour of the child residing in one "primary residence."...
by Naomi Guttman
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis,"...
by Sarah Tolmie
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Hate to tell you, but you’re going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it’s warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom. Sarah Tolmie’s second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the practices of dying. Confronting the fear of death head-on,...
Radical Gestures
Feminism and Performance Art in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have not been studied in detail before. She reassesses assumptions...
by Patricia Marino
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Moral diversity is a fundamental reality of today’s world, but moral theorists have difficulty responding to it. Some take it as evidence for skepticism – the view that there are no moral truths. Others, associating moral reasoning with the search for overarching principles and unifying values, see...
Implied Consent and Sexual Assault
Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the Court rejected the idea that sexual consent could be "implied." Ewanchuk was a landmark ruling, reflecting a powerful commitment to women's equality and sexual...
Double Lives
Writing and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
Writing is intellectual, solitary work, and mothering too often seen as its antithesis. Marni Jackson's The Mother Zone, published in 1992, gave many readers their first insights into the life of a mother/writer. Yet despite having writers such as Adrienne Rich, Alice Munro, Tillie Olsen and Margaret...
by Michael Penny
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
Michael Penny addresses his poems directly to the reader, challenging you to satisfy your need to investigate and understand the sensory and intellectual assumptions we use to make sense of our world. Balanced between abstract metaphysical challenges and the concrete and commonplace, Penny's poetry...
by Hugh MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Precipice is the sweeping story of Lucy Cameron, a young woman who seems destined to live and die in small-town Ontario. Into this place of monotony and petty incidents, of spiteful gossip and rigid moralism, appears Stephen Lassiter. Stephen is a Princeton-educated engineer from a wealthy New York...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years. Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature presents a rich panorama of Aboriginal culture, history, and life through the writings of some...