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The following is excerpted from A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.
The
reality of Pat’s life in Victoria, especially her first Christmas, was strange
and bleak; there was no snow, and “grey rain” fell. Yet from this experience
emerged the splendid “Stories of Snow,” one of a … Read More >
In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror. She argues that the fears, anxieties, and even the hopes encoded in American popular culture account for the public's passive acceptance of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Creating Complicated Lives: Women and Science at English-Canadian Universities, 1880-1980 by Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley, edited by Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham.
Eastcott (1888–1963) was
born and educated in Ontario, obtained a “Senior Teacher’s Certificate” in
1907, and taught in public schools … Read More >
If you're still searching for some last minute gifts, MQUP has something for everyone on your list.
Literary Criticism
Hit the Road, JackEssays on the Culture of the American RoadEdited by Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford
All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape, … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
CIDA: Struggling for Effectiveness
9/11 and the Freudian Uncanny
Review of A la source, la nuit (MQUP translation To the Spring, by Night available March 2013)
What else?
Publishing your thesis online
The Read More >
Stephen Brown's Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid is a critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade.
The following is excerpted from the Globe & Mail article Fantino defends … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Global Shift: Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1945-2007 by Mike Mason.
Dictatorship
in Brazil lasted for two decades from 1964 and has been considered the most
dismal period in the history of the nation. Tens of thousands were arrested,
many of … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Hijacking History: American Culture and the War on Terror by Liane Tanguay.
CNN and CBS
issued two commemorative DVDs that seemed to be aimed at satisfying a Freudian “compulsion
to repeat” occasioned by the “trauma” that the networks themselves had helped
to generate in the first place (for Freud, … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Journey with No Maps makes Charles Taylor Prize longlist
First-rate biography of indigenous culture advocate
What else?
Canada's History Book and Gift Guide
Watchwords: There’s open space in meaning of ‘flat’
Truck … Read More >
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa has made the Charles Taylor Prize longlist.
The shortlist will be announced on January 9, and the winner will be announced on March 4, 2013.
Journey with No Maps is … Read More >