Time for a Bookie Break

Decorating gingerbread “bookies” has been a long-standing MQUP tradition. In December, MQUP staffers got together to celebrate our Spring/Summer catalogue by decorating bookies inspired by our upcoming titles. See below 21 tasty renditions from this latest catalogue, with some recent publications sprinkled in. You can download the Spring/Summer 2025 catalogue PDF, or view all forthcoming titles on our website here. Happy Browsing!

Many of these covers were created by designer extraordinaire David Drummond. Our thanks to him for the inspiration!

Adam Smith’s Islands
New Zealand’s Incomparable Restructuring, 1980–1995
By John C. Weaver

Through an in-depth case study of New Zealand, Adam Smith’s Islands advances scholarship on economic restructuring activities prominent from the late 1970s into the 1990s.

Between the New Country and the Old World
William Chapman and French-Canadian Literary Nationalism
By Erin E. Edgington

William Chapman (1850–1917) wrote patriotic verse recounting the history of New France, envisioning a glorious future for its descendants. Between the New Country and the Old World challenges the prevailing narrative that has labeled Chapman a second-rate, forgettable poet, showing how his life and work reveal important insights into literary fame, poetics in a transitional moment at the turn of the century, and the history of French literature in North America.

Building Mennonite Belonging
Toward an Intercultural Church
By Hyung Jin Kim Sun

Building Mennonite Belonging charts a course for Canadian Mennonites, particularly those in Mennonite Church Canada, to address changing racial and ethnocultural identities in a diversifying society.

Euphoria and Symposia
The Dialectic of Desire in Thinking, Drinking, and Well-Being
By Kieran Bonner

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia asserts that reconciling unlimited desire with the finite nature of the human condition is essential for the understanding and enjoyment of life itself.

It’s Nation Time
A Progressive Defence
By Jerry White

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

Kingdom of the Clock
A Novel in Verse
By Daniel Cowper

Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city, Kingdom of the Clock is a verse novel whose interwoven storylines begin with one dawn and end at the first light of the next. Within the cycles of that single day, the lives of the city\’s inhabitants unfold in Cowper’s clear, flowing lyricism.

Lived Moments
Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave
By Glen Norton

Lived Moments offers illustrative readings of canonical films by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer to deepen our understanding of the history of cinematic modernism, standing as a model of how film philosophy and film analysis can enrich one another.

Logic in the Wild
By Patrick Girard

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making – logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.

Mainstreaming Porn
Sexual Integrity and the Law Online
By Elaine Craig

Mainstreaming Porn reveals how sexual norms, practices, and desires are shaped by corporate platforms such as Pornhub in the same way that social media has affected society at large. It is a powerful argument for law and policy responses to the impact of monopolistic, corporate porn platforms on the contours of sexual integrity in our communities.

Montreal After Dark
Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City
By Matthieu Caron

Montreal After Dark elucidates how nighttime regulation became a central issue in Montreal during the second half of the twentieth century. Labour, dissent, sex, noise, and art, as well as sites of leisure and consumption, were reorganized to suit the desires of politicians who envisioned Montreal within a global network of cities.

Réinventer Montréal
Ambitions et revers de trois urbanistes des Trente Glorieuses
By Frédéric Mercure-Jolette

Réinventer Montréal retrace les idées et les actions de trois urbanistes ayant œuvré à repenser le développement de Montréal dans les années 1960, soit Hans Blumenfeld, Jean-Claude La Haye et Claude Robillard à partir d’un examen de leurs archives personnelles et des plans et des documents d’urbanisme qu’ils ont réalisés.

The Illegitimate Age
Aesthetics and Political Theology
By Federico Vercellone, Translated by Robert T. Valgenti

Through an analysis of the katechon myth – a withholding power that contains the very evil it restrains – The Illegitimate Age reveals an aesthetic lens through which to interpret the legitimacy of political power, the appeal of populism, and the role of the image in current society.

The Wild Word
Animals in the Gospels
By Jaeda Charlotte Calaway

The Wild Word presents new readings of the way animals are used in the Gospels to create, reinforce, and transgress social boundaries, as well as to enforce and collapse the categories of domesticity/wildness and natural/unnatural.

Tomboy
By Cristina Johnston

An exploration of Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy, a quiet, understated examination of childhood, gender, and queer selfhood amidst the shifting sands of late childhood and early adolescence.

The Translating Subject
By Melissa Tanti

The Translating Subject explores how queer women writers use multilingual strategies to create intimacy with the unknown and enable ethical engagement across social, cultural, and linguistic differences.

Unequal Access
Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes
By Natalie Welfens

Unequal Access explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.

Unintended Nations
France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Napoleonic World
By Alex R. Tipei

Unintended Nations tracks the history of a concept of civilization that emerged in nineteenth-century France and reveals the network of dynamic interactions that helped shape modernity and national identity in Southeast Europe and beyond.

Unravelling MAiD in Canada
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care
Edited by Ramona Coelho, K. Sonu Gaind and Trudo Lemmens

Since its legalization in 2016, health care professionals in Canada have provided more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide, or MAID, than in any other country. MAiD has quickly become one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Unravelling MAiD in Canada provides critical reflections on ethical, medical, legal, and disability justice concerns as more jurisdictions consider their own assisted dying laws and policies.

White Lily
By John Emil Vincent

John Emil Vincent’s White Lily offers a meditation on Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedevilled by white lilies.

Y Tu Mamá También
By Juan Llamas-Rodriguez

Y Tu Mamá También explores the film as a touchstone for queer and sex cinema that continues to teach us how to find queer resonances across national and international film styles and to imagine queer media as complex networks of influence and rediscovery, more than two decades after its original release.

Yogalands
In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World
By Paul Bramadat

Promoted as a way of healing people from wounds inflicted by the world, modern yoga offers an “anti-world” to which practitioners can escape. Yet yoga can never free itself entirely from the compromises and contradictions of the real world. Yogalands encourages practitioners and critics to be curious about the many meanings and impacts of yoga.