Mqup: 855 books
Not Needing all the Words
Michael Ondaatje's Literature of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Not Needing all the Words looks at Ondaatje's work in relation to the post-Cartesian idea of the modern subject as split and alienated. Highlighting the distinction between aesthesis and logic, Hillger traces the ways in which Ondaatje responds to the continuing process of silencing art in the modern age of reason.
Masters and Students
Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The word "mission" can suggest a distant and dangerous attempt to obtain information for the benefit of the home left behind. However, the term also applies to the movement of information in the opposite direction, as the primary motivation of those on religious missions is not to learn about another...
Beyond Vision
Going Blind, Inner Seeing, and the Nature of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory...
Doctor to the North
Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.
Florida's Snowbirds
Spectacle, Mobility, and Community since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Developing numerous themes, including leisure, state-promoted tourism, citizenship, and business investment, Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon considers advertisements, movies, policymakers, and the behaviour of snowbirds in Florida to provide the most thorough study of the vacation state to date. He also...
by L. Ian MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
If journalism is the first draft of history, it’s equally important to see how the work stands the test of time. If the writing isn’t prescient and perspicacious, it doesn’t meet that test. This collection of columns and articles by L. Ian MacDonald – a sequel to Politics, People & Potpourri...
Harper's Team
Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Harper's team fought four campaigns in five years: two leadership races and two national elections. Through trial and error - and determination - they learned to combine the Reform Party's strength in grassroots politics with the Progressive Conservative expertise in advertising and media relations,...
Northern Lights
Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon. Although the largest concentration of think tanks is in the United States, they can be found in virtually every country. Often overlooked, Canada’s think tanks represent a highly diverse and eclectic group of public policy organizations...
Passage to Promise Land
Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Spanning more than six decades, Passage to Promise Land is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, Vivienne Poy captures the social, political,...
Waiting for the Wave
The Reform Party and the Conservative Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In Waiting for the Wave, Tom Flanagan studies the rapid rise of the Reform Party and presents some fascinating insights into the party and its leaders. He corrects two popular misconceptions about Preston Manning: that his political philosophy is directly derived from his religious convictions, and...
Teeth of Time
Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Trudeau, the most intellectual of Canadian prime ministers, turned to Cook, an illustrious historian and a speech-writer during the 1968 election campaign, for his trusted views. Cook's revealing memoir also traces how public affairs and the central political themes of Trudeau's reign – nationalism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens. Image-building in Canadian Municipalities explores the decision making processes that determine how cities and towns choose to represent themselves. It also assesses the effectiveness of those processes and of the...
October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View
An Insider’s View
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
"Tetley addresses important questions, corrects widely believed factual errors, and successfully deconstructs events from a side of the conflict seldom written about by popular historians." The Beaver.
Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow
Official Languages in Education and Canadian Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Hayday shows how the language programs and policies initiated by the Trudeau government supported French-Canadian and Acadian minority communities, enabling them to develop minority language education systems and laying the groundwork for the minority language education rights contained in section 23...