Mqup imprint: 803 books
by David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Media, Memory, and the First World War is a comparative study that shows how the dominant mode of communication in a popular culture - from oral traditions to digital media - shapes the structure of memory within that culture.
by David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Three and a half centuries after Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d were written, do Milton’s epic poems still resonate with contemporary concerns? In Milton’s Leveller God, David Williams advances a progressive and democratic interpretation of Milton’s epics to show they are more relevant...
Getting a Life
The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. It seems it’s finally hip...
Precarious Visualities
New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Through the study of exemplary media works and practices - photography, film, video, performance, installations, web cams - scholars from various disciplines call attention to the unsettling of identification and the disablement of vision in contemporary aesthetics. To look at an image that prevents...
Cartographies of Place
Navigating the Urban
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Media are incorporated into our physical environments more dramatically than ever before - literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city. Public gatherings and movement, even the capabilities of democratic ideology, have been redefined....
by Eleonore Schönmaier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
At night we swim / following the fence: / diverted / we enter the net / shaped like a heart / and in the heart the hook / guides us to the back A stunning unfolding of memory, Wavelengths of Your Song juxtaposes a childhood in the northern Canadian wilderness with the adventures of an international creative...
by Eleonore Schönmaier
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, Eleonore Schönmaier’s poems show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings. A woman hides her love letters in beehives, a cherry tree in full blossom is transported horizontally on a bike, and three...
Unlucky to the End
The Story of Janise Marie Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
In Unlucky to the End Richard Pound provides a detailed and thought-provoking examination of the circumstances of the robbery, the subsequent flight of the suspects and murder of the policeman, as well as the hostage scene that led to the death of one of the robbers. He uses transcripts from the Calgary...
Shades of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel, The Original of Laura
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Shortly before Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions that the draft for his last novel, The Original of Laura, be destroyed. But in 2008 Dmitri Nabokov, the writer's only child and sole surviving heir, contravened his father's wishes. Formed from novelistic fragments that had been hidden...
Petrocultures
Oil, Politics, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Contemporary life is founded on oil – a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social and cultural...
Into Silence and Servitude
How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of the Church was a woman's face. After the Second World War, as increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude...
Just Watch Us
RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, in the midst of the Cold War and second-wave feminism, the RCMP security service – prompted by fears of left-wing and communist subversion – monitored and infiltrated the women’s liberation movement in Canada and Quebec. Just Watch Us investigates why and...
Global Shift: Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1945-2007
Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1945-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
An insightful account of the recent histories of nearly two dozen states, Global Shift is a dynamic, nuanced study of what is sometimes referred to as the "Third World." Seeking to illuminate the deep economic chasm between the global East and West, Mike Mason presents a new perspective...
Turbulent Empires
A History of Global Capitalism since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time that the United States extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for post-colonial...