Mqup imprint: 803 books
by Augusto Del Noce
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy’s foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an original and profound cultural critic, and in particular as a great scholar of the process of secularization that took place...
Discovering Confederation
A Canadian's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Janet Ajzenstat is one of Canada's most respected thinkers on the moral and philosophical foundations of responsible government and Confederation. Discovering Confederation is a study of political science over the last forty years through the intellectual lens of her career. Ajzenstat details her...
Reading the 21st Century
Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers...
Why Dissent Matters
Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Frances Kelsey was a quiet Canadian doctor and scientist who stood up to a huge pharmaceutical company wanting to market a new drug - thalidomide - and prevented an American tragedy. The nature writer Rachel Carson identified an emerging environmental disaster and pulled the fire alarm. Public protests,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. A badly wounded Omar Khadr was transferred to the US Bagram Air Force base and then Guantánamo Bay detention camp. He would remain there without trial until October 2010, when a military...
by Edward Carson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The mind is made / of pleasures and / uncertainty, inviting / as it yearns to be both / puzzle and adversity Full of philosophical digressions, questions, and answers, Knots forms a series of cyclical narrations, a kind of verbal asymmetry or mathematician’s knot, continuously mirroring its ideas...
Northern Spirits
John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2008
The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant's relationship...
Legalizing Misandry
From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism.
Unbuttoned
A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King died in 1950, the public knew little about his eccentric private life. In his final will King ordered the destruction of his private diaries, seemingly securing his privacy for good. Yet twenty-five years after King’s death, the public was bombarded...
The Catholicisms of Coutances
Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France, 1350-1789
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Catholicisms of Coutances is a richly detailed account of France from the Hundred Years' War to the French revolution. Coining the word "catholicisms" to denote the complex varieties of religious beliefs and practices within the Church, J. Michael Hayden presents a detailed analysis of the diocese...
Discovering the End of Time
Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at last,...
Canada's Victorian Oil Town
The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Departing from traditional historiography focused on the economic role of resource development, Canada's Victorian Oil Town incorporates an understanding of the connections between science and technology, nation and imperialism, and cultural nuances of community-building. Burr looks at the cultural importance...
by Luigi Giussani
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Giussani begins by focusing on the Church as a community composed of people who are aware of themselves as defined by the gift of the Spirit, from which they derive a new conception of existence, the fruit of conversion. He then describes the Church's developing self-awareness of its dual elements...
Growing to One World
The Life of J. King Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
J. King Gordon's story is one of youthful vision and high ideals sustained throughout a life of concrete action at home and abroad. Grounded in his father's social gospel and given intellectual heft and hue by exposure to radical politics at Oxford and in New York, he returned to Canada as a self-described...