Mqup imprint: 803 books
Memoirs and Madness
Leonid Andreev Through the Prism of the Literary Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Frederick White's primary focus is A Book About Leonid Andreev (1922), the most important collection of memoirs dedicated to the Russian author, presented here in the first English translation. The agendas of the memoirists resulted in portraits that have influenced how Andreev is read and spoken about...
by John Asfour
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
A sense of exile and belonging dominates the poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the rich and surprising possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, Blindfold relates...
by J. Russell Perkin
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
David Lodge is a much-loved novelist and influential literary critic. Examining his career from his earliest publications in the late 1950s to his more recent works, David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel identifies Lodge's central place within the canon of twentieth-century British literature....
Kiviuq
An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer's Odysseus - told by forty Inuit elders. The elders'...
When the French Tried to be British
Party, Opposition, and the Quest for Civil Disagreement, 1814-1848
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. The institutions of a loyal opposition and disciplined political parties seemed to be implicit in the...
Generating Traces in the History of the World
New Traces of the Christian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously...
by Suzanne Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Balancing the bells of the past with the personal life of the present, these poems offer an intimate look at a woman leaving her husband. Against the backdrop of history, honest glimpses of a relationship's ruin reveal surprising connections between the exalted and mundane. Cast from Bells tells a story...
Common Ground
A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Judaism and Christianity meet in scripture, which they share and about which they contend. In Common Ground Father Andrew Greeley and Rabbi Jacob Neusner present their characteristically candid - and often provocative - interpretations of the history, context, and meaning of scripture. Written in alternating...
by Richard Pound
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Richard Pound has spent half a lifetime identifying, collecting, and organizing thousands of quotations. Quotations for the Fast Lane is the result of that effort, selected by someone with an impressive range of local, national, and international experience, and arranged alphabetically by theme to be...
by Roderick Stewart, Jesús Majada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce medicare to Canada. An uncompromising humanitarian in search of a...
From Revolution to Ethics
May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
Challenging the prevalent view that the 1960s did not have any lasting effect, From Revolution to Ethics demonstrates that intellectuals and activists turned to ethics as the touchstone for understanding interpersonal, institutional, and political dilemmas. In absorbing and scrupulously researched detail...
A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury looks at the remarkable life and influence that an outsider had on the tightly knit circle of Britain's cultural elite. Among Koteliansky's friends were Katherine Mansfield, Leonard and Virginia Woolf - for whose Hogarth Press he translated many Russian classics - Mark Gertler,...
Irish Nationalism and the British State
From Repeal to Revolutionary Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Drawing on an immense body of literature and research, Brian Jenkins analyses the forces that shaped mid-nineteenth century Irish nationalism in Ireland and North America as well as the role of the Roman Catholic Church. He outlines the relationship between newly arrived Irish Catholic immigrants...
by Luigi Giussani, John E. Zucchi
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1997
Giussani challenges us to penetrate the deepest levels of experience to discover our essential selves, breaking through the layers of opinions and judgments that have obscured our true needs. Asserting that all the tools necessary for self-discovery are inherent within us, he focuses primarily on reason,...