Mqup imprint: 803 books
Struggling for Social Citizenship
Disabled Canadians, Income Security, and Prime Ministerial Eras
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Canada Pension Plan disability benefit is a monthly payment available to disabled citizens who have contributed to the CPP and are unable to work regularly at any job. Covering the program’s origins, early implementation, liberalization of benefits, and more recent restraint and reorientation...
Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation
An Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Canada was one of the first Western countries to sign an agreement to provide development aid to China in 1983, and the Canadian International Development Agency invited universities to cooperate in ways that would facilitate "the multiplication of contacts at the thinking level." In Canadian Universities...
Solitudes of the Workplace
Women in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Solitudes of the Workplace focuses on experiences of marginalization, uncertainty and segregation created by the hierarchical structures of categories in universities and by gendered identities. Studying a wider range of women’s roles in universities than prior research, the experiences of support...
SARS Unmasked
Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Will SARS or another pandemic influenza reoccur and, if it does, have we learned how to manage pandemics more effectively? In SARS Unmasked risk communication expert Michael Tyshenko offers answers to this and other questions. Cathy Paterson, who worked as a nurse clinician during the Toronto SARS...
Health Care Federalism in Canada
Critical Junctures and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Now that Ottawa has left health care to the provinces, what is the future for Canadian health care in a decentralized federal context? Is the Canada Health Act dead? Health Care Federalism in Canada provides a multi-perspective, interdisciplinary analysis of a critical juncture in Canadian public policy...
by Barbara Killinger
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Clinical psychologist Dr Barbara Killinger offers insights and a variety of techniques that she developed in working with her clients over the years. Through their stories, she illustrates the dynamics of workaholism, showing how it produces profound personality changes, negatively affects family...
Healing the World's Children
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Essays range from historical overviews and historiographic surveys of children's health in various regions of the world, to disability and affliction narratives - from polio in North American to AIDS orphans in post-Apartheid South Africa - to interpretations of artistic renderings of sick children that tell us much about medicine, family, and society at specific times in history.
Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds
Cognitive Science and the Literature of the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Adapted Brains and Imaginary Worlds, Donald Beecher explores the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of the brain as they affect the study of fiction. He builds upon insights from the cognitive sciences to explain how we actualize imaginary persons, read the clues to their intentional states, assess...
Shut Off
The Canadian Digital Television Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory...
Distributing Status
The Evolution of State Honours in Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Honorific rewards are all about status and illustrate status processes in a way that few other social phenomena do. Why do we have so many honorific awards and prizes? Although they are a major feature of modern societies, they have received little scholarly attention. Samuel Clark argues that answering...
Putting Trials on Trial
Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. Less...
Lessons on the English Verb
No Expression Without Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
Guillaume's theory of psychomechanics views language as systematic and semiotic, with the use of verb forms governed by the meaning we want to express, which is embedded in the unconscious resources of one's native tongue rather than in rules. Through his application of Guillaume's framework Walter...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In recent decades, the Canadian post-secondary education system has evolved to become more inclusive, now welcoming groups historically excluded from its many opportunities. Inviting the reader to explore the consequences of a rapidly changing student population, Serving Diverse Students in Canadian...
The Chicago School Diaspora
Epistemology and Substance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
When the University of Chicago was founded in 1892 it established the first sociology department in the United States. The department grew rapidly in reputation and influence and by the 1920s graduates of its program were heading newly formed sociology programs across the country and determining the...