Mqup imprint: 803 books
Humboldt's Mexico
In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world’s most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt’s breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America from 1799 to 1804...
Smitten by Giraffe
My Life as a Citizen Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey...
In the Eye of the China Storm
A Life Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Born in Vancouver in 1920 to immigrant parents, Lin became a passionate advocate for China while attending university in the United States. With the establishment of the People's Republic, and growing Cold War sentiment, Lin abandoned his doctoral studies, moving to China with his wife and two young...
Shifting Voices
Feminist Thought and Women's Writing in Fin-de-Siècle Austria and Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The organized women's movement in Austria-Hungary became increasingly important with the rise of modernism and feminist concerns ranging from women's legal and political rights, access to education, professional opportunities, economic independence, and sexual freedom found expression in print. Agatha...
Against Judicial Activism
The Decline of Freedom and Democracy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Against Judicial Activism cites numerous cases to support this argument. For instance, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and Supreme Court read a ban on discrimination on the ground of transsexualism as being part of the province's human rights code. On the basis of this revision of the law,...
Speaking Out on Human Rights
Debating Canada's Human Rights System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely...
by Luigi Giussani
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This volume is a selection of the most significant writings by Monsignor Luigi Giussani, founder of the Italian Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, which is practised in eighty countries around the world. Presented by Julián Carrón, Giussani's successor as head of Communion and Liberation,...
by Luigi Giussani
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
The Journey to Truth Is an Experience is the first English translation of Il Cammino al vero è un'esperienza, Giussani's early works on the Christian experience, written from 1959-64. It begins with a guide on how to live the Christian life within the Student Youth community, followed by a call to base...
The Structures of Law and Literature
Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Do law and literature really have anything to say to each other? Until now, that threshold question has vexed law and literature studies. This revolutionary work provides a bold new answer, showing how law and literature spring from the same cultural impulses. Drawing on the archetypal criticism of Northrop...
Greater Glory
Thirty-Seven Years with the Jesuits
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
The Greater Glory is a candid memoir about a way of life that, after fifteen hundred years, is disappearing. Casey offers a vivid and incisive portrayal of the seminary, especially the training for novices - the physical and spiritual discipline, the asceticism, the anxieties that surrounded the socialization of young seminarians, the struggles that their chosen careers held for them.
City-Regions in Prospect?
Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing...
Regulating Screens
Issues in Broadcasting and Internet Governance for Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The digital age has carried with it a tsunami of change. Children who have grown up with the delivery platforms that are a part of that change are now able to absorb more and more unregulated media on their own, often without any supervision. Bedroom computers, tablets, and smart phones provide private,...
Sir William C. Macdonald
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufacturer of chewing tobacco in Canada, and by 1885 he may have been the richest person in the country.
Frontiers and Sanctuaries
A Woman's Life in Holland and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Drawing from her mother's diaries, letters, newspaper columns, fiction, and historical works in English and Dutch, Marianne reconstructs Madzy's upper-middle-class childhood and youth in Holland before World War II, her struggle to keep herself and her small children alive during the war, and her emigration...