Mqup: 855 books
by Sarah Tolmie
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Walk away before you are threadbare / Preserve your strength, preserve your curly hair / For others' use. Least I can do. / Let your fabric relax, snap back to mold / Another body and reveal its gold. A collection of 120 sonnets in eight parts, Trio reveals, frame by frame, a married fortysomething female...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis. Dans le domaine de la politique, l'image généralement acceptée du Québec d'avant la Révolution tranquille est celle d'une société écrasée par une...
War Memories
Commemoration, Recollections, and Writings on War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences. Offering an international perspective on war commemoration, contributors consider the process...
Women in British Imperial Airspace
1922-1937
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Using a wealth of archival material, including government documents, Liz Millward investigates the very idea of airspace. She maps the contours of five forms of civilian airspace - the private, the commercial, the imperial, the national, and the body of the pilot herself - as concrete places through...
Carving a Niche
The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800-1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The beginning of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 triggered radical political, social, and economic changes, including the reorganization of the medical profession. During this tumultuous period of transition, physicians and surgeons merged in an effort to monopolize the field and ensure their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Much of the history of western ethical thought has revolved around debates about what constitutes a good life, and claims that a good life is achievable only by certain human beings. In Feminist Philosophies of Life, feminist, new materialist, posthumanist, and ecofeminist philosophers challenge this...
Flowers on the Rock
Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When Sasaki Sōkei-an founded his First Zen Institute of North America in 1930 he suggested that bringing Zen Buddhism to America was like "holding a lotus against a rock and waiting for it to set down roots." Today, Buddhism is part of the cultural and religious mainstream. Flowers on the Rock examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Since its beginning, Comparative Literature has been characterized as a discipline in crisis. But its shifting boundaries are its strength, allowing for collaboration and growth and illuminating a path forward. In Comparative Literature for the New Century a diverse group of scholars argue for a distinct...
Staging Modernist Lives
H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, Three Plays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and writing in...
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2
The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
David Thompson’s Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The second in a planned three volumes of Thompson’s...
Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London
Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Charles Booth’s seventeen-volume series, The Life and Labour of the People in London (1886–1903), is a staple of late Victorian social history and a monumental work of scholarship. Despite these facts, historians have paid little attention to its section on religious influences. Thomas Gibson-Brydon’s...
Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal
Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
What good is art? What is the point of a university education? Can philosophers contribute anything to social liberation? Such questions, both ancient and urgent, are the pulse of reformational philosophy. Inspired by the vision of the Dutch religious and political leader Abraham Kuyper, reformational...
Reproductive Acts
Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Forty years after Roe v. Wade, it is evident that the ideologies of "choices" and "rights," which have publicly framed reproductive politics in North America since the landmark legal decision, have been inadequate in making sense of the topic's complexities. In Reproductive Acts, Heather Latimer investigates...
Designing Fictions
Literature Confronts Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Advertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael Ross's Designing Fictions is the first study to investigate this symbiotic relationship on a broad scale. In view of the appreciable overlap between literary...