Mqup: 855 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time. Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals,...
Wallace Stevens among Others
Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Wallace Stevens among Others David Jarraway explores the extraordinary achievement of Wallace Stevens, but in contexts that are not usually thought about in connection with Stevens's work - gay literature, contemporary fiction, Hollywood film, and avant-garde architecture, among others. By viewing...
Negative Cosmopolitanism
Cultures and Politics of World Citizenship after Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance...
Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies
The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and politics. Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies collects and extends...
Ancestral Recall
The Celtic Revival and Japanese Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese...
by Gerald W.L. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
The Fighting Newfoundlander is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment - the "Blue Puttees" - and its heroic contributions to the war effort. Gerald Nicholson details the harrowing experiences of the Newfoundland Regiment (the only Canadian unit) at Gallipoli and later at Beaumont...
Unforced Flourishing
Understanding Jaan Kaplinski
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Are we ill-suited for this world? Among Europe's major contemporary poets, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski offers a rare vision of human advancement and fulfillment: the less we intervene the more we flourish. But how then can we remain involved in what evolves of its own accord? How can we move away from a...
Staging Strangers
Theatre and Global Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural difference...
Mourning Nature
Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance,...
American By Degrees
The Extraordinary Lives of French Ambassador Jules Jusserand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture. Ambassador Jules Jusserand's years in Washington (1903-24) were defined...
Jerusalem on the Amur
Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
The Canadian Jewish Communist movement, an influential ideological voice within the Canadian left, played a major role in the politics of Jewish communities in cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg, as well as many smaller centres, between the 1920s and the 1950s. Jerusalem on the Amur looks...
Divided Province
Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing...
Hungochani, Second Edition
The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In the tapestry of global queer cultures Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped. In Hungochani, Marc Epprecht seeks to change these limited views by tracing Southern Africa's history and traditions of homosexuality, modern gay and lesbian identities, and the vibrant gay rights movement that has...