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Christmas is fast approaching, and we at the MQUP are getting into the spirit. On that note, we present an excerpt of Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario by Françoise Noël.
"The Laroque family lived in the city of North Bay and were … Read More >
The Torontonians received a nod from Quill & Quire's George Fetherling in his review of Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris.
"Harris covers everyone you would expect: Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Michaels, Matt Cohen – the list is … Read More >
Challenge for Change, edited by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, and Ezra Winton looks at the activist documentary program Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle, which ran from 1967 to 1980. The films produced by this program were among the first to add portable video to the tested arsenal … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Our new Spring 2011 catalogue is here!
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Baking as Biography made it to Kerry Clare's favourite books of 2010 on PickleMeThis.com
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Baking as Biography by Diane Tye
A daughter's exploration of her mother's life as revealed through her baking.
"This fascinating book is about more than baking. It's about women's work and women's worth, friendship and duty, and memory … Read More >
Our new Spring 2011 catalogue is here!
Click to view our virtual catalogue, minus the paper cuts, including its cover designed by the great David Drummond.
Some new title highlights:
A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Portrait of a scamp – review of A Knight in Politics
@kissesforusall won our Love Queen of Malabar Twitter giveaway.
A framework for thinking about cyberspace – review … Read More >
Sir Frederick Borden (1847-1917), physician and entrepreneur, was Canada's longest-serving minister of defence. His untidy private life, however, often captured more attention than his public service.
When Frederick died in 1917, the Montreal Gazette described him as “tall, debonair, fruity of voice, a … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
The UK's Independent publishes their picks for best books of 2010; the list includes a mention of our very own Anthony J. Hall's Earth into Property.
Mobilizing the Will to Intervene radio tour
The Love Queen of Malabar twitter contest on until Read More >
Kamloops This Week has published Darcy Hossack's review of Baking as Biography by Diane Tye. The Christmas season has made Hossack wistful about how the season's feasts are tied to tradition, nostalgia and family.
"Baking as Biography, A life Story in Recipes (McGill-Queen’s University Press) is Diane Tye’s new academic memoir, … Read More >