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The following is excerpted from the article New universities in Ontario – are they necessary?
In its most recent Throne Speech, the Ontario government, echoing an election promise, pledged to create 60,000 additional postsecondary spaces and three new undergraduate campuses. But … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Bloomsbury’s Rabbi by Matthew Ackerman:
A translator stands between two languages and between the two worlds that the languages represent. If he does his job well, he may belong in neither place. Such was the fate of Samuel Koteliansky, an emigré Russian … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Books selected for the AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
Canada Prize short list highlights
D.H. Lawrence and Samuel Koteliansky
In honour of Charles Dickens’ 200th
These Mysterious People
What else?
Blue Metropolis refines and extends its web presence
Finer … Read More >
Judging for the 2012 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show took place January 26-27 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 226 books, 300 jacket and cover design entries, and 4 journals were entered. 49 books, 1 journal, and 30 jackets/covers were chosen by the … Read More >
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – McGill-Queen's is very pleased to announce that we have four books shortlisted in three Canada Prize categories. Prizes will be presented at a special ceremony on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Musée des beaux-arts in Montreal.
Read the press release from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences/la Fédération … Read More >
Galya Diment is today’s guest blogger. She is the author of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky. Samuel Koteliansky fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain’s literati and intellectuals. Among Koteliansky’s … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada by Day & Winer
R.T. Naylor's Crass Struggle reviewed in Canadian Dimension
Aping Mankind reviewed in WSJ
Globe & Mail FOCUS excerpts Beyond the Indian Act
MQUP releases Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada by Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer, in the Carleton Library Series.
Praise from experts in the field:
"Kathleen Day and Stan Winer are to be congratulated on having produced a book that will be the standard reference to the topic … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Updated by Devin Penner.
What, according to Naylor, has changed since 1899? Whereas early-20th-century tycoons like Andrew Carnegie earned their wealth in the world of material production, “today’s parasitocracy” amass their fortunes in … Read More >
The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis NicolasThe Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales Edited and with an introduction by François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet
Part art, part science, part anthropology, this ambitious project presents an early Canadian perspective on natural history … Read More >