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To the Spring, by Night Online Book Launch

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:58:15 -0700

April 12th 2 pm EDT on Shindig.com McGill-Queen’s is honoured to be introducing Seyhmus Dagtekin’s evocative work to an English audience for the first time. Dagtekin's To the Spring, by Night is the magical evocation of a childhood spent in...

Pope Francis: For Man

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:05:28 -0700

The following chapter is excerpted from A Generative Thought: An Introduction to the Works of Luigi Giussani edited by Elisa Buzzi. For Man by Pope Francis I When I gave the lecture on which this chapter is based during the...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:23:12 -0700

What you may have missed this week at MQUP To the Spring, by Night James McLean Inside the NDP War Room The Codex Canadensis wins Canada Prize A plea to return to public service fundamentals Book chronicles the Covenanters George...

Codex Wins Canada Prize

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:56:07 -0700

The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas has won the 2013 Canada Prize in the Humanities. Celebrating the best Canadian scholarly books across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, the Canada Prizes are awarded to...

McLean learned a lot inside the NDP’s war room

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:02:51 -0700

The following is excerpted from The Hill Times article McLean learned a lot inside the NDP’s war room: In the 2005-2006 federal election campaign, Jim McLean, a professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal and co-editor of Public Art...

To the Spring, by Night

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:15:52 -0700

The following is excerpted from the Quill & Quire review of To the Spring, by Night by Seyhmus Dagtekin. Seyhmus Dagtekin, a Kurdish poet and writer born in Turkey but living in Paris, gently unfolds a story that reads like...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:54:04 -0700

What you may have missed this week at MQUP “Knot”, as read by the author, Eleonore Schönmaier, from Wavelengths of Your Song The Merger Delusion a.k.a. If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Till It Is How to curb bureaucratic empire-building...

Sandra Djwa shortlisted for BC Book Prize

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:34:27 -0700

Sandra Djwa's Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page is a finalist for the BC Book Prize 2013 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award. Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and...

How to curb bureaucratic empire-building

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:26:12 -0700

The following is excerpted from How to curb bureaucratic empire-building: Organizational expert Donald Savoie explains why public payrolls grow while service levels drop. The Moncton author, now in his 66th year, is still making politicians and bureaucrats squirm. His latest...

“Knot” by Eleonore Schönmaier

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:16:20 -0700

“Knot”, as read by the author, Eleonore Schönmaier, from Wavelengths of Your Song Click here for another excerpt from Wavelengths of Your Song To learn more about Wavelengths of Your Song, or to order online, click here. For media inquiries,...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:05:19 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Stuff: an excerpt from Wavelengths of Your Song Eleonore Schönmaier's visual notebook for Wavelengths of Your Song Peter Trent and The Merger Delusion The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in...

Wavelengths of Your Song

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:18:58 -0800

The following is excerpted from Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier. STUFF When Paschal first saw Michaela’s apartment, he thought she’d been robbed: a single futon on the floor. He said to her, “Where’s all your stuff?” She said,...

Peter Trent and The Merger Delusion

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:50:31 -0800

The following is excerpted from a Huffington Post guest post by Peter Trent, author of The Merger Delusion: How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal. Just over ten years ago, two hundred municipalities all over Quebec...

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:09:48 -0800

Thirty years ago, Anglo-American politicians set out to make the public sector look like the private sector. These reforms continue today, ultimately seeking to empower elected officials to shape policies and pushing public servants to manage operations in the same...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:11:15 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP George Fetherling’s The Writing Life Quebec - Educational Systems and Ethnic Relations The Harbourfront Centre hosted a panel discussion with all five finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize Wavelengths of Your...

Quebec - Educational Systems and Ethnic Relations

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:24:21 -0800

The following is excerpted from Fragile Majorities and Education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland, and Quebec by Marie McAndrew. Since the creation of Canada in 1867, and even before, school structures and ethnicity have been closely associated in Quebec. The British...

George Fetherling’s The Writing Life

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:46:59 -0800

The following is excerpted from George Fetherling’s The Writing Life: Journals, 1975-2005 is a surprising read Which brings me to the biggest disadvantage of being Canadian. You practically have to destroy the planet to get anyone’s attention. There are simply...

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McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:06:14 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Finalists for the 2013 Canada Prizes announced The Mirror of the Worlde book launch at Burford Priory, Oxfordshire Elizabeth Tanfield Cary 1598 manuscript published George Fetherling’s The Writing Life: Journals, 1975-2000...

Finalists for Canada Prizes announced

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:31:29 -0800

Celebrating the best Canadian scholarly books across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, the Canada Prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual...

Biographer talks about Journey with No Maps with the 49th Shelf

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:46:59 -0800

The following is excerpted from an interview with Sandra Djwa author of Journey with No Maps: A Life P. K. Page: Julie Wilson: You were approached directly by P. K. Page write this biography. I'm curious to know, how does...

A riveting portrait of an artist

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:31:24 -0800

The following is excerpted from the Maclean's article The life of P.K. Page: Exclusive excerpt from a new biography: A riveting portrait of an artist as a young — and old — woman: When the respected scholar, author and critic...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:39:36 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Who is P.K. Page? P.K. Page with Margaret Atwood Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It Medicare news across Canada Aging Population: Are We Facing a Coming Avalanche...

Canadian Medicare

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:10:32 -0800

The following is excerpted from Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It by Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom. Medicare is more than laws and regulations. As the Romanow report (2002) pointed out, from the beginning medicare has...

Who is P.K. Page?

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:13:57 -0800

The following is excerpted from the BC Studies review of Journey with No Maps by Sandra Djwa. "Who am I," asks the narrator in an early poem, "Arras," by P.K. Page, “or, who am I become...?” (144). It’s a question...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:11:07 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Sandra Djwa in the Huffington Post Nuclear power in Alberta The 2013 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show To the Spring, by Night What else? Visit the Canadian Kobo Indie Store Amazon...

The 2013 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:25:36 -0800

The following books are selected entries for the AAUP 2013 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show. The 2013 show will premiere at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Boston, June 20-22, 2013. Click here to view all selected entries All covers designed...

Nuclear Power in Alberta

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:19:13 -0800

As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity, green energy, and alternatives to fossil fuels, the nuclear power sector is experiencing global growth. Nuclear reactors are being designed and constructed at record rates, and Canada is...

Sandra Djwa in the Huffington Post

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:15:21 -0800

The following is excerpted from a Huffington Post guest post by Sandra Djwa. I was struck by the predicament of P.K. Page, a diplomat's wife in Australia, circa 1953. She's then a fine poet in her mid-thirties, new to the...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:26:44 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP 200 years of Pride & Prejudice Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008 Living Factories excerpt In Twilight and in Dawn review Telling...

Time in Time

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:33 -0800

The following is excerpted from Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008 edited by J. Mark Smith. Better Living through 'Pataphysics: The Biosemiotics of Kenneth Goldsmith by Adam Dickinson In early March...

Living Factories

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:28:37 -0800

The following is excerpted from Living Factories: Biotechnology and the Unique Nature of Capitalism by Kenneth Fish. A second important difference is that monitoring and regulatory activities in the labour process devoted to transgenic animals are exceptionally concerned with the...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:43:45 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf CHOICE award winners The Nuclear Revival Duane Bratt on CTV talking about his new book, Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival History Repeats Itself Learning...

The Nuclear Revival

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:26:19 -0800

The following is excerpted from Canada, the Provinces, and the Global Nuclear Revival: Advocacy Coalitions in Action by Duane Bratt. The other external shock was the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident. Although it is still too early to determine its...

CHOICE award winners

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:28:39 -0800

The following books are winners of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada Echoes and Exchanges Edited by Anna Hoefnagels and Beverley Diamond First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting...

This week in publishing

McGill-Queen's University Press — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:24:29 -0800

What you may have missed this week at MQUP The Merger Delusion is a finalist for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies Lessons of the 1998 ice storm - author Raymond Murphy's op-ed Sandra Djwa...

The Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:47:53 -0800

Under Conrad's Eyes: The Novel as Criticism by Michael John DiSanto is the co-winner of the Adam Gillon Book Award in Conrad Studies. "Michael John DiSanto’s Under Conrad’s Eyes: The Novel as Criticism explores the roots of Conrad's writing, especially...

The Merger Delusion finalist for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize

McGill-Queen's University Press — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:03:46 -0800

Peter Trent's The Merger Delusion: How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal is a finalist for the Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. About the Award The finalists were selected by a jury of...

Treaty No. 9

McGill-Queen's University Press — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:41:06 -0800

Today’s guest blogger is John S. Long. Prof Long's award-winning book,Treaty No. 9, uncovers early twentieth-century approaches to negotiating land claims, focusing in particular on the 41 First Nation Nishnawbe Aski Nation/treaty affiliations in Northern Ontario, covering the land south...

Sandra Djwa is a Finalist for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize!

McGill-Queen's University Press — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:42:37 -0800

McGill-Queen's is delighted to announce that Journey with No Maps: A Biography of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa is a finalist for the the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction. The Charles Taylor Prize recognizes excellence in Canadian non-fiction writing...

Remembering the '98 Ice Storm

McGill-Queen's University Press — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:13:24 -0800

Guest blogger Raymond Murphy, author of Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change, reflects on the North American Ice Storm of 1998, fifteen years later. This January is the anniversary of the 1998 ice storm, which...