New Releases: April 2025

MQUP is excited to announce thirteen new books this month, with many diverse genres and topics ranging from poetry and history to a cultural and religious study of Yoga. We have new additions to the Studies in Christianity and Judaism Series, the Advancing Studies in Religion Series, and to the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series.

Adam Smith’s Islands

New Zealand’s Incomparable Restructuring, 1980–1995

By John C. Weaver

Through the lens of New Zealand, Adam Smith’s Islands examines larger questions about policy dilemmas, the global flow of capital, and the sustainability of social adjustments in economic restructuring. In so doing, it casts new light on the formation and history of what is casually labelled today as the neoliberal state.

Architecture as Communication

A Medium Like No Other

By Ross A. Eaman

Using examples across many historical periods and cultures, Architecture as Communication argues that we judge our built environments by the values they communicate.

The Authentic Paul

Critical Scholarship and the Making of a Christian Book

By Gregory Fewster

The Authentic Paul illustrates in vibrant detail what it means – in a world full of texts – to make the letters of Paul authentic, and why practices of authentication are always culturally determined.

Cold War Workers

Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State

By Isabel Campbell

Cold War Workers raises questions about the influence of settler-colonial masculine institutional values on those who laboured for the Cold War state and society. By comparing the experiences of different types of workers, families, and communities, this volume reveals how race, gender, and privilege affected people in varied and sometimes unexpected ways.

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.

No Place Like Home

Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War

By Bohdan S. Kordan

No Place Like Home articulates how internment, truly known only to those who endured it, can still have deeper meaning as shared history and enlists compelling reasons to comprehend and honour it.

Other Voices in Soviet History

Collected for a Devil’s Advocate

Edited by Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey and Tracy McDonald

Other Voices in Soviet History decentres Soviet history by examining how colonial mindsets, war, agency, identity, the proximity of various borders, and transnational interactions shaped political, social, and cultural dynamics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Randia’s Quiet Theatre

Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder

By Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston

Randia’s Quiet Theatre reveals how ethnographers and their interlocutors can stand on more equal ground, a profound reflection on how the elderly can live with dignity and how we can care for each other.

Resisting Orders

Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church

By Christine Gervais, Amanda Danielle Watson and Shanisse Kleuskens

Resisting Orders untangles the power and resistance of religious women , asking what it means to agitate for change from within at a time of reckoning for the Roman Catholic Church.

A Time for the Province

Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature

By George Gasyna

Through engagement with the theoretical apparatuses of postmemory studies and border studies, A Time for the Province redefines Polish cultural identity in the current moment of postsocialist transition and globalized citizenship.

Unravelling MAiD in Canada

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care

Edited by Ramona Coelho, K. Sonu Gaind and Trudo Lemmens

Canada now provides more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide than any other country. Unravelling MAiD in Canada puts forth critical reflections and valuable insights as more jurisdictions consider their own assisted dying laws and policies.

White Lily

By John Emil Vincent

White Lily is John Emil Vincent’s love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedevilled by white lilies.

Yogalands

In Search of Practice on the Mat and in the World

By Paul Bramadat

Yogalands encourages practitioners and critics to be more curious about yoga. For insiders, this can deepen their practice, and for observers, this approach is an inspiring and unsettling model for engaging with other passionate commitments.