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Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics 1787-1858By Kyla MaddenMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 240 pages
By Pat Donnelly, June 9, 2007
…Another McGill-Queen’s history book recently found its way into my hands, via my own Irish roots-searching path. Kyla Madden’s award-winning Forkhill Prostestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858, is an academic work, based on a thesis. Although the … Read More >
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By host Tom Ashbrook:
Long before he was Pope Benedict the 16th, then-Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger was already a fan of Rabbi Jacob Neusner. He called his book
"A Rabbi Talks with Jesus," "by far the most important book in
Jewish-Christian dialogue in the last decade." Now … Read More >
History’s Greatest LiarBy Lisa FabrizioThe American Spectator, June 13, 2007
We all think we know him, or at least we’re forever trying. Every Christmas and Easter, documentary makers seek to redefine him, or simply to find him. But who is the real Jesus Christ? In the Catholic Church’s tradition of sharpening doctrine by answering its critics, … Read More >
Ottawa author looks at how mothers of fallen soldiers are used to foster support for war
Janice KennedyThe Ottawa CitizenSunday, June 3, 2007
Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs:World War I and the Politics of GriefBy Suzanne EvansMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 224 pages
If they hadn’t already been killed or maimed that December of 1915,
husbands and brothers and … Read More >
The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Announces the Winners of The 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
St John’s, NL: Patrick Warner, Winner, The E J Pratt Poetry Award for There, there, Véhicule Press, 2005, and Gerhard P Bassler, Winner, Rogers Cable Non-fiction Award for Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland … Read More >
Gabrielle Roy Prize 2006Association for Canadian and Quebec LiteraturesPress ReleaseMay 31, 2007
For immediate release
The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to award the Gabrielle Roy prize (anglophone section), which each year honours the best work of literary criticism published in English, to Sherry Simon, for Translating Montreal: Episodes in the … Read More >
OpinionNortin M. HadlerABC NewsJune 1, 2007
We have all grown accustomed to the scare of the week.
Each week we learn about another hazard that is lurking in our
environment. We learn of something we are not doing that we must do —
or else.
We must eat fish, but not all fish. Last year if you fed your
child butter … Read More >
Reviewed by David A. BennahumThe Pharos, Winter 2007
The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care SystemBy Nortin M. HadlerMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 328 pages
In a remarkably well-written and stimulating book Nortin M. Hadler, professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology at the University of North Carolina, challenges a number of medicine’s most cherished certainties. … Read More >
Against the male streamReview by Jean Bethke ElshtainThe Times Literary SupplementMarch 30, 2007
Legalizing Misandry: From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination Against MenBy Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. YoungMcGill-Queen’s University Press680 pages
"There are some things you cannot make up unless you are gifted with an imagination far more fertile than my own. Take, for … Read More >
Review by Paul Robinson
Atlantic Books Today, Spring 2007
The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape BretonBy John ShawMcGill-Queen’s University Press, 224 pages
The Blue Mountains is a bilingual – English and Gaelic – anthology of 30 stories collected by respected Celtic scholar John Shaw from seventeen Cape Breton storytellers. That’s one way of … Read More >