New Releases: September 2025

MQUP is excited to announce 8 new books out this month, and 4 titles out in paperback! Discover our new additions to the Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series, McGill-Queen’s Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series, McGill-Queen’s Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies Series, and the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series.

At Beckett’s Grave

By Robin Durnford

In poems of loss and hope, Robin Durnford dares to pause for a moment, finding meaning in the metaphor of the life and work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.

Civic Parties in Divided Societies

Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina

By Cera Murtagh

Civic Parties in Divided Societies explores how societies transition from armed conflict to issue-based democracies.

Healing through Art

Ritualized Space and Cree Identity

By Nadia Ferrara

New in Paperback!

In “Healing through Art” Nadia Ferrara shows how art therapy has been used as a successful form of healing among Crees. The result of her work as an art therapist in communities in northern Quebec, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of her patients’ experiences. Ferrara examines how individual experience of trauma is perceived, defined, and narrated by Cree individuals and discusses the role that Cree culture and Cree definitions of self play in therapy.

Hearts of Freedom

Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees

By Peter Duschinsky, Colleen Lundy, Michael J. Molloy, Allan Moscovitch and Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe

Between 1975 and 1997 some three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians fled atrocities in their home countries, with over 210,000 resettling in Canada. Hearts of Freedom is an oral history based on interviews with 175 former refugees, documenting their moving accounts of oppression, perilous escapes, and evolving impressions of their new country.

Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard

Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe

By Martyn Bond

New in Paperback!

In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. Timely and captivating, Martyn Bond’s biography offers an opportunity to explore a remarkable life and revisit the impetus and origins of a unified Europe.

Needle Work

A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada

By Jamie Jelinski

New in Paperback!

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.

Needy Media

How Tech Gets Personal

By Stephen Monteiro

Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

Raymond Klibansky

A Life in Philosophy

By Raymond Klibansky and Georges Leroux, Translated by Peter Feldstein

Georges Leroux presents a series of dialogues with his mentor. A rich autobiographical portrait of a heroic figure in twentieth-century philosophy, the book explores themes, including philosophical traditions, melancholy, tolerance, peace, and the role of philosophy in international relations, that were central to Klibansky’s scholarship and life.

Settler Colonial Sovereignty

Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure

By Liam Midzain-Gobin

Settler Colonial Sovereignty examines what processes and understandings make Crown sovereignty seem natural and inevitable, particularly with respect to Indigenous Peoples who hold their own notions of political authority.

The Making of Cossack Ukraine

Political Thought, Culture, and Identity Formation, 1569-1714

By Zenon E. Kohut

Cossack Ukraine traces the evolution of Ukrainian political thought and culture from the sixteenth century to 1714. The book shows how interplay between various political cultures contributed to the development of territorial, religious, ethnic and national visions that reflected early modern concepts of nationhood and state identity.

The Price of Gold

Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife

By John Sandlos and Arn Keeling

The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada’s most contaminated mine sites and the Indigenous community, labour unions, and environmentalists who fought back against the federal government and the mining companies.

Triquet’s Cross

A Study of Military Heroism

By John MacFarlane

New in Paperback!

In Triquet’s Cross John MacFarlane tells the story of Paul Triquet, a French-Canadian soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the battle for Casa Berardi during the Second World War.