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What you may have missed this week at MQUP
The birds of The Codex Canadensis
Unravelling the Sir John Franklin Arctic mystery
Why Canada cares about human rights
Reaching Outward and Upward: The University of Victoria, 1963-2013
Poetry and its insight on the universe
What else?
The history … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Why Canada Cares: Human Rights and Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice by Andrew Lui.
The theory of human rights has been contested repeatedly and on numerous grounds since the international
recognition of the concept occurred with the advent of the United Nations (UN) in 1945 and the … Read More >
Stephen Harper has announced Parks Canada will embark on a new mission to find the remains of the two ships from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition.
The following is excerpted from Unravelling the Franklin Mystery by David C. Woodman.
On
28 July … Read More >
The autumn issue of QuébecOiseaux features bird sketches from The Codex Canadensis alongside pictures of the actual birds the drawings represent.
The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas edited by François-Marc Gagnon shows how the wildlife and native inhabitants of the new world were understood and documented by a seventeenth-century European. Part art, … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Strategy and Command excerpt and photoset
Mike Babcock's Leave No Doubt eBook
What else?
Students find e-textbooks ‘clumsy’
Books as sacred objects
How should academic libraries communicate their own value?
The New Yorker on … Read More >
The following is an excerpt from Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 by Roy A. Prete, now available in paperback.
While
less tangible than physical arrangements, the relationships established between
key military personalities, who would later play major roles in the … Read More >
Leave No Doubt by Mike Babcock is now available as an eBook on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo!
Leave No DoubtA Credo for Chasing Your DreamsBy Mike Babcock with Rick Larsen
Mike Babcock is the only hockey coach in the history … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury
David Thompson Bicentennial
Beyond the Global City
What else?
20 irrefutable theories of book cover design
Putting the Reader To Work
On the death of books, again
On the idea of Read More >
In honour of David Thompsons's bicentennial, The North American David Thompson Bicentennials initiative was created to commemorate the character and accomplishments of prominent trader, naturalist, surveyor and map-maker David Thompson.
Click for a list of their events or read their latest newsletter.
Further Reading
The following is excerpted from a review of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury by Galya Diment.
We owe it to writer Galya Diment, author of the 2011 book A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky (published by McGill-Queen’s University Press), for shining a welcome spotlight … Read More >