Mqup imprint: 803 books
Democracy in Decline
Steps in the Wrong Direction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Part lament, part provocative call-to-action, Democracy in Decline charts how democracy is being diluted and restricted in five of the world's oldest democracies - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. James Allan targets four main, interconnected causes of decline...
Urban Encounters
Art and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Public art is on the urban agenda. Given recent claims about the importance of creativity to urban prosperity, opportunities for installing or performing art in the city have multiplied. As cities strive to appear culturally dynamic, the stakes of artistic production rise higher than ever. Exploring...
Fatal Glamour
The Life of Rupert Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, and three weeks after his poem "The Soldier" was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday. Thus began the myth of a man whose poetry crystallizes the sentiments that...
God's Plenty
Religious Diversity in Kingston
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
God's Plenty examines the religious landscape of Kingston, Ontario, in the twenty-first century. The rich religious life of Kingston - a mid-sized city with a strong sense of its history and its status as a university town - is revealed in a narrative that integrates material from sociological and historical...
by George Cartwright, Marianne P. Stopp
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), an English merchant who spent time in Labrador between 1770 and 1786, is best known for the fascinating account of his experiences provided in his Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador (1792). In...
In Twilight and in Dawn
A Biography of Diamond Jenness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
When New Zealand-born and Oxford-educated anthropologist Diamond Jenness set aside hopes of building a career in the South Pacific to join Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, he had little idea of what lay ahead. But Jenness thrived under the duress of that transformational experience:...
Do Think Tanks Matter? Third Edition
Assessing the Impact of Public Policy Institutes
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
It is often assumed that think tanks carry enormous weight with lawmakers and other key stakeholders. In Do Think Tanks Matter? Donald Abelson argues that the question of how think tanks have evolved and under what conditions they can and do have an impact continues to be ignored. Think tank directors...
Ecosystems, Society, and Health
Pathways through Diversity, Convergence, and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The modern world has created complex systems that have interrelated concerns. Ecosystems, Society, and Health presents new perspectives on how the challenges relating to these concerns must be examined, not as disparate political narratives, but as dynamic transformational stories that demand integrative...
At the Wilderness Edge
The Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada's West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting...
Consumers in the Bush
Shopping in Rural Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
General stores are essential to the image of a colonial village. Many historians, however, still base their stories of settlement on the notion of rural self-sufficiency, begging the question: if general stores were so common, who were their customers? To answer this, Consumers in the Bush draws on...
by Phyllis Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2007
The arrival, one sunny morning, of pale green wall-to-wall carpeting for the living room is the crowning jewel in Karen Whitney's long-anticipated transformation of her house into a beautiful home, renovated to the exacting standards of her own impeccable taste. The banal finality of this event triggers...
Undiplomatic History
The New Study of Canada and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized. Undiplomatic History charts these changes, bringing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language policies are political. They have political consequences as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. This shift,...
We Find Ourselves Put to the Test
A Reading of the Book of Job
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures. In We Find Ourselves Put to the Test James Crooks returns to the Bible’s book of Job to explore the enduring relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions....