Mqup imprint: 803 books
Left and Right
The Small World of Political Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The words "left" and "right" often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the environment. Despite claims that political polarization is in decline, its persistence suggests...
Conflicted Commitments
Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Conflicted Commitments analyzes a form of non-violent, direct transnational solidarity in which activists from the global North travel to support and protect people in the global South. Gada Mahrouse contends that this brand of activism is a compelling site of racialized power relations and is highly...
Different Gods
Integrating Non-Christian Minorities into a Primarily Christian Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
In recent decades the ebb and flow of immigration to Canada has changed significantly, with the majority of immigrants coming from non-European countries. A striking feature of this shift is that a significant proportion of immigrants are non-Christians newly immersed in a society entrenched in Christian...
Protecting Multiculturalism
Muslims, Security, and Integration in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In a post-9/11 sea of social and political discord, one state stands apart. As an increasingly powerful anti-Islamic social movement rises in the West, Canada alone remains a viable multicultural state. Employing survey and statistical data as well as a series of interviews conducted with religious...
Listening for the Heartbeat of Being
The Arts of Robert Bringhurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Poet, philosopher, translator, typographer, and cultural historian Robert Bringhurst is a modern-day Renaissance man. He has forged a career from diverse but interwoven vocations, finding ways to make accessible to contemporary readers the wisdom of poets and thinkers from ancient Greece, the Middle...
by Edward Carson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question...
The Invention of Journalism Ethics, Second Edition
The Path to Objectivity and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Does objectivity exist in the news media? In The Invention of Journalism Ethics, Stephen Ward argues that given the current emphasis on interpretation, analysis, and perspective, journalists and the public need a new theory of objectivity. He explores the varied ethical assertions of journalists over...
Contesting the Moral High Ground
Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In mid-twentieth century Britain, four intellectuals - Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Barbara Ward - held sway over popular conceptions of morality. While Huxley and Russell championed ideas informed by agnosticism and atheism, Muggeridge and Ward were adherents to Christianity....
Boundless Dominion
Providence, Politics, and the Early Canadian Presbyterian Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In the twenty-first century, the word Presbyterian is virtually synonymous with “austere” and “parochial.” These associations are by no means historically unfounded, as early Canadian Presbyterians insisted on Sabbath observance and had a penchant for inter- and intra-denominational disagreement....
The Blue Banner
The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and Presbyterian Witness in Halifax
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
The Blue Banner is a case study of the survival of historic denominationalism grounded in resistance to church union. It traces the origins and near demise of Presbyterianism in Nova Scotia and the development of Saint David's from its beginnings as a new congregation and the only site of Presbyterian...
Transatlantic Methodists
British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire. Transatlantic Methodists uncovers how the Methodist ministry and laity in these colonies, whether they were British, American, or native-born, came to define themselves as...
The Vitality of Contradiction
Hegel, Politics, and the Dialectic of Liberal-Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In The Vitality of Contradiction, Bruce Gilbert provides an exposition of Hegel's political philosophy to establish not only that societies fail because of their contradictions, but also how the unsurpassable oppositions of social life cultivate freedom. He moves beyond Hegel's works to consider the...
Dismantling Canada
Stephen Harper's New Conservative Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Stephen Harper is the first prime minister to represent the new Conservative Party, and the first to declare that his goals include nothing less than changing Canada by entrenching conservative values and replacing the Liberals as the country’s natural governing party. After nine years of a closed-door...
Asleep at the Switch
The Political Economy of Federal Research and Development Policy since 1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development. Asleep at the Switch explains the reasons for this underperformance, despite a series of federal measures to spur technological innovation in Canada. Bruce Smardon...