Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Hugh MacLennan
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died...
Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples
Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish and Scottish migrants...
Maps and Memes
Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Maps and cartography have long been used in the lands and resources offices of Canada's indigenous communities in support of land claims and traditional-use studies. Exploring alternative conceptualizations of maps and mapmaking, Maps and Memes theorizes the potentially creative and therapeutic uses...
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge
Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways,...
Sir Andrew Macphail
The Life and Legacy of a Canadian Man of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Macphail's writing - characterized by clarity of expression and support for unpopular positions - allowed him to develop and document many of the important political, social, and intellectual themes of his time. He argued for the reorganization of the British Empire to reflect the growing importance...
Leadership Under Fire, Second Edition
The Challenging Role of the Canadian University President
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While the role of the university president has evolved dramatically in recent years, the recruitment pool and selection process have changed little since the 1960s. In Leadership Under Fire, Ross Paul combines leadership theory, interviews with eleven of Canada's most successful presidents, and thirty-five...
Georges and Pauline Vanier
Portrait of a Couple
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and political...
Research and Reform
W.P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The first biologist to establish the study of genetics in a Canadian university, W.P. Thompson was a passionate advocate of science education whose impact extended far beyond his home province of Saskatchewan. In Research and Reform, Richard Rempel brings to light the life, times, and legacy of a brilliant...
The Harper Factor
Assessing a Prime Minister's Policy Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Political legacy is a concept that is often tossed around casually, hastily defined by commentators long before a prime minister leaves office. In the case of the polarizing Stephen Harper, clear-eyed analysis of his tenure is hard to come by. The Harper Factor offers a refreshingly balanced look at...
God's Province
Evangelical Christianity, Political Thought, and Conservatism in Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Compared to the United States, it is assumed that religion has not been a significant factor in Canada’s political development. In God’s Province, Clark Banack challenges this assumption, showing that, in Alberta, religious motivation has played a vital role in shaping its political trajectory....
Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
While primary elections are most often associated with presidential candidates in the United States, similar methods for selecting party leaders and candidates are becoming increasingly common in parliamentary democracies around the world. The Promise and Challenge of Party Primary Elections introduces...
Powering Up Canada
The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods. Powering Up Canada...
The Modern Dilemma
Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Where Eliot's poetry is dominated by cultural, religious, and philosophical anxiety, Stevens' is bright, witty, and playful - and commonly dismissed as superficial. Surette demonstrates the seriousness of Stevens' life-long engagement with the modern dilemma of disbelief, showing that he, like Eliot,...
by Renato Barilli
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, Renato Barilli examines the history of artistic style in relation to scientific discovery. Applying an innovative analysis, he illustrates the subtle, yet intrinsic, connection between paradigm shifts in the sciences and in the arts. Barilli...