Mqup imprint: 803 books
Inventing the PC
The MCM/70 Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Inventing the PC details the invention and design of the MCM/70 computer and the prolonged struggle to bring it to market. Zbigniew Stachniak offers an insider's view of events on the front lines of pioneering work on personal computers. He shows what information and options PC pioneers had, how well...
Frontier Boosters
Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nineteenth-century American West. Focusing on Port Townsend, Washington and the surrounding Puget Sound region, Elaine Naylor examines economic development, "boosterism," and the dynamics of...
Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09
Canadian Policies and Performance, 2008-2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues force analysts to constantly reevaluate how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors? This third volume in a series of annual...
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's...
Native Peoples and Water Rights
Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Through a combination of field work and archival research, Kenichi Matsui offers an original and pioneering overview of the evolution of water law and agricultural policies in the Canadian west. By incorporating the history of water law philosophies, water development technologies, agricultural policies,...
Evolutionary Intuitionism
A Theory of the Origin and Nature of Moral Facts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Evolutionary Intuitionism presents a new evolutionary theory of human morality. Zamulinski explains the evolution of foundational attitudes, whose relationships to acts constitute moral facts. With foundational attitudes and the resulting moral facts in place, he shows how they ground a plausible...
by Kenneth C. Dewar
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Frank Underhill (1889-1971) practically invented the role of public intellectual in English Canada through his journalism, essays, teaching, and political activity. He became one of the country's most controversial figures in the middle of the twentieth century by confronting the central political issues...
Stikeman Elliott
New Millennium, New Paradigms Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In its sixty-year existence, the Stikeman Elliott firm has played a role in many of the most significant transactions in Canadian business history, appearing before the major courts of the country in precendent-setting litigation. Its members are at the top of the legal profession and its reach is global....
How Ottawa Spends 2008-2009
A More Orderly Federalism?
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
The twenty-ninth edition of How Ottawa Spends focuses on the policies of the Harper government and the course of federal-provincial relations. Leading scholars of Canadian public policy explore several key policy areas, including fiscal balance in the federation, tax policy, regulatory capacity, the...
Struggling for Effectiveness
CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars...
Whose Canada?
Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Contributors include Sharryn Aiken (Queen's), Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Dorval Brunelle (UQAM), Duncan Cameron (SFU), Bruce Campbell (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, CCPA), Tony Clarke (Polaris Institute), Stephen Clarkson (Toronto), Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Simon Fraser), Kathy...
The Practice of Fiscal Federalism
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Contributors provide a fascinating account of how federal countries are confronting the traditional challenges of conflicts over division of fiscal powers while also coping with emerging challenges of globalization and citizen empowerment arising from the information revolution. They analyze how relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Illuminating the ways in which neoliberal policies – such as the deregulation of economies and the transfer of governmental responsibilities to the private sector – have been implemented on a global scale, the contributors show how neoliberalism has seeped into our social and political fabric...
Rediscovered Self
Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic material on aboriginal communities in northern Canada, Niezen illustrates the ways indigenous peoples worldwide are identifying and acting upon new opportunities to further their rights and identities. He shows how - within the constraints of state and...