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In honour of National Indigenous History Month, we’ve compiled a list of recently published and forthcoming books that highlight the history, art, and literature of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.
Use the code MQIS to receive a 20% discount on Indigenous Studies books for the month of June.
Books make wonderful gifts. With the holidays fast approaching, we have put together a list of popular 2016 releases which we think would make great gifts (for yourself or a friend!). Here are our suggestions:
For Folk’s Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia
By Erin Morton
For the art lover, or Maritimer on your list!
A radical re-examination … Read More >
MQUP is hosting a social media contest for a chance to win a copy of Howard Shubert’s new book, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena! The book provides an in-depth review of the development of skating rinks from their humble beginnings to the multipurpose arenas we know today, and is … Read More >
Fresh off the press, new release “Smitten by Giraffe, My Life as a Citizen Scientist” by Anne Innis Dagg, has received its first major review! The following in an excerpt taken from the review that recently appeared in Publishers Weekly.
“In this plainspoken memoir, Canadian zoologist Dagg (Giraffe: Biology, Behavior and Conservation) chronicles … Read More >
April is poetry month, to celebrate we are sharing some of our favourite poems from a few of the titles in our Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series.
From Trio
Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, 2016.
By Sarah Tolmie
See you and raise you. Raise you like an island
Hove in sight. Raise you like the window … Read More >
We are delighted to have Patricia Marino, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo and author of the Fall 2015 book, Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World, participate in a Q&A with MQUP Editor Mark Abley.
Together they discuss the questions explored in her recent work.
Q&A
Mark Abley: Moral Reasoning in a Pluralistic World tackles a few major topics in … Read More >
To celebrate the forthcoming MQUP publication Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation: Essays in Reformational Philosophy by Lambert Zuidervaart, the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) will be hosting a blog symposium on their blog Ground Motive.
Over the next few months Ground Motive will be inviting a wide variety of authors to respond to the book … Read More >
Our Fall 2011 Catalogue is out!
You can now flip through our virtual catalogue here (click here if your browser doesn't support flash).
A few highlights:
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2 by David A. Wilson
After a tumultuous career as a revolutionary in Ireland … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Maclean's reviews The Strange Demise of British Canada and highlights the long history of courting the ethnic vote
John Glassco as style icon
Poetry month at the MQUP continues
What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…
Booktryst reviews A Gentleman of Pleasure
Author Arthur Milnes on Jimmy Carter and Fukushima on CNN.com and The Economist
Author of Highway of the Atom, Peter van Wyck, on … Read More >