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The Enigma of Perception
McGill Queens Univ |
May 1, 2013 |
232 pages
An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.
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$59.95
Women's Work, Women's Art
McGill Queens Univ |
April 1, 2013 |
376 pages
A richly illustrated study of the dress and adornment traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic.
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$16.95
Wavelengths of Your Song
McGill Queens Univ |
April 1, 2013 |
144 pages
Intuitive environmentalism from the Canadian North is carried forth into creative global adventuring.
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$19.95
To the Spring, by Night
McGill Queens Univ |
March 1, 2013 |
176 pages
An evocation of childhood, a lost world, and a lost time.
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$34.95
Challenge for Change
McGill Queens Univ |
February 1, 2010 |
574 pages
An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
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Telling It to the Judge
McGill Queens Univ |
November 1, 2011 |
224 pages
In 1973, the Supreme Court's historic Calder decision on the Nisga'a community's title suit in British Columbia launched the Native rights litigation era in Canada. Legal claims have raised questions with significant historical implications, such as, "What treaty rights have survived in various... More Info
$49.95
Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada
McGill Queens Univ |
March 28, 2012 |
512 pages
Comprised of essays, interviews, and personal reflections by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal musicians and scholars alike, the collection highlights themes of innovation, teaching and transmission, and cultural interaction. Individual chapters discuss musical genres ranging from popular styles... More Info
$24.95
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
McGill Queens Univ |
May 28, 2012 |
400 pages
In Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, over thirty contributors analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case. This multi-genre book includes essays, articles, poems, a play, extended excerpts from the documentary film You Don't... More Info
Mediating Moms
McGill Queens Univ |
May 28, 2012 |
416 pages
Mediating Moms looks at mothers as imaged by and in the media; how mothers mediate or negotiate these images according to their historical, corporeal, and lived personhoods; and how scholars mediate the popular and academic discourses of motherhood as a way of registering, strengthening, and... More Info
$32.95
How Ottawa Spends, 2011-2012
McGill Queens Univ |
August 1, 2011 |
329 pages
Continuing its tradition of timely and exemplary scholarship, the 2011–2012 edition of How Ottawa Spendsexamines national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the austerity measures and budget-cutting strategy of the Harper Conservative government; it also includes an analysis... More Info
The Woman Who Mapped Labrador
McGill Queens Univ |
May 28, 2012 |
544 pages
The definitive Hubbard, combining her previously unpublished diary, a full biography, and new maps that break down her daring canoe trip day by day.
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$24.95
No Easy Fix
McGill Queens Univ |
May 28, 2012 |
400 pages
While UN-sponsored international criminal courts have been successful in obliging leaders to accept responsibility for their actions during bitter internal wars, Marchak argues that they may not be the best means of bringing truth and reconciliation to survivors. Based on the principle of... More Info
Warriors of the Plains
McGill Queens Univ |
February 28, 2012 |
160 pages
Warriors of the Plains skilfully interweaves a survey of North American Plains Indian history with a generously detailed examination of Plains Indian warrior art - weapons, amulets, clothing, and ceremonial objects - with particular emphasis on their ritual use and symbolic meanings. Replete with... More Info
Canada Among Nations, 2011-2012
McGill Queens Univ |
January 28, 2012 |
224 pages
In the decade following the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, economic and political relations between Canada and Mexico have expanded significantly. Today, Canada and Mexico are each other's third largest trading partners and, outside of the United States, Mexico is the second... More Info
Chee Chee
McGill Queens University Press |
June 1, 2010 |
208 pages
Benjamin Chee Chee lived with anger and frustration for more than thirty years before he took his own life. An Ojibway artist who killed himself just as he was beginning to gain international recognition, Chee Chee is one of the thousands of aboriginal peoples in Canada who have commited suicide.... More Info
Moralism
McGill Queens Univ |
March 28, 2012 |
192 pages
Covering a wide variety of topics, Moralism takes on such salient issues as the nearly impossible demands of stringent morality, the conflict between morals and other values, and the contrast between the practice of moral philosophy and other modes of moral thought and reflection. In connecting his... More Info
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Collections and Objections
McGill Queens Univ |
June 19, 2013 |
308 pages
North America's museums are treasured for their collections of Aboriginal ethnographic and archaeological objects. Yet stories of how these artifacts were acquired often reveal unethical acts and troubling chains of possession, as well as unexpected instances of collaboration. For instance,... More Info
Power without law
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
October 1, 2009 |
244 pages
The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Marshall case of 1999 asserted sweeping Native treaty rights to natural resources in the Maritime provinces and led to intense national and provincial controversy.
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Reading the 21st Century
McGill Queens Univ |
July 25, 2012 |
278 pages
Looks at the themes, major works and decline in reading during a decade of instant communication, economic collapse, religious revival and war and terror.
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Sites of Governance
McGill Queens Univ |
June 28, 2012 |
424 pages
Focusing on diverse policy fields including emergency planning, image-building, immigrant settlement, infrastructure, federal property, and urban Aboriginal policy, Sites of Governance presents detailed studies of the largest city in each of Canada's provinces. Drawing on extensive documentary... More Info
Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe
McGill Queens Univ |
October 16, 2012 |
280 pages
How President Robert Mugabe manipulated Zimbabwe's security policy to exploit past problems for present gain.
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Refereeing Identity
McGill Queens Univ |
April 28, 2012 |
328 pages
In Refereeing Identity, Michael Buma examines the ways in which the hockey novel genre attempts to reassure readers that "threatened" traditional Canadian and masculine identities still thrive on the ice. In a period of perceived crisis and flux, hockey novels offer readers the comforting... More Info
The rediscovered self
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
June 1, 2009 |
236 pages
In a series of thematically linked essays, Ronald Niezen discusses the ways new rights standards and networks of activist collaboration facilitate indigenous claims about culture, adding coherence to their histories, institutions, and group qualities. Drawing on historical, legal, and ethnographic... More Info
In Praise of Nonsense
McGill Queens Univ |
June 28, 2012 |
236 pages
A speculative exploration of theory, subjectivity and art in an age of uncertainty.
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Beyond the Global City
McGill Queens Univ |
June 28, 2012 |
504 pages
Looking beyond the smoke screen of Toronto's rapid and costly growth to re-envision sustainable planning in Ontario's neglected regions.
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Canada and the Idea of North
McGill Queens University Press |
May 1, 2007 |
344 pages
A comprehensive overview of the role of the idea of North in Canadian thought, art, and popular culture.
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An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
McGill Queens Univ |
August 18, 2011 |
456 pages
Canada’s Native people have inhabited this land since the Ice Age and were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and marine hunters when Europeans first reached their shores. Contact between Natives and European explorers and settlers initially presented an unprecedented period of... More Info
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The Spirit Lives in the Mind
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
February 9, 2007 |
224 pages
Louis Bird has spent the last three decades documenting Cree oral traditions and sharing his stories with audiences in Canada, the United States, and Europe. In The Spirit Lives in the Mind the renowned storyteller and historian of the Omushkego shares teachings and stories of the Swampy Cree... More Info
Global Shift
McGill Queens Univ |
December 1, 2012 |
368 pages
A striking portrait of states in the non-Western world from the dismantling of European empires to their inclusion into a universe of global capitalism.
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Nightclub
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
May 1, 2008 |
273 pages
In the last thirty years bouncers have emerged as iconic gatekeepers of contemporary cool, exclusivity, and social capital in urban centres around the world. In this groundbreaking empirical study, Rigakos critiques the supposed liberating and expressive potential of nightclubs by theorizing them... More Info
The Sweet Sixteen
McGill Queens Univ |
April 1, 2012 |
224 pages
How a train ride to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 revolutionized the journalism field for women.
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Refugee sandwich
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
March 31, 2006 |
235 pages
Although more than thirty thousand refugee claims are decided in Canada every year, the personal stories behind them are never heard by the Canadian public. Presenting thirteen stories that tell about Canada's refugee system, this book exposes the dilemmas and choices faced by participants in the... More Info
In Search of R. B. Bennett
McGill Queens Univ |
May 17, 2012 |
364 pages
No Canadian prime minister has a legacy as uncertain as that of R.B. Bennett (1870–1947). Leader of the country during the worst years of the Great Depression, Bennett's fortune and ascension to the British House of Lords distanced him from the Canadian people during his lifetime, while his... More Info
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Inside the Ndp War Room
McGill Queens Univ |
November 1, 2012 |
200 pages
A first-hand account of how decisions to represent political parties are made.
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Phoenix
McGill Queens Univ |
August 14, 2012 |
479 pages
The life and loves of Norman Bethune - Canadian doctor and activist and battlefield surgeon in China during the Japanese invasion of the 1930s.
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Lament for a nation
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
May 1, 2005 |
99 pages
Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 George Grant passionately defended Canadian identity by asking fundamental questions about the meaning and future of Canada's political existence.... More Info
Return of the Sphinx
McGill Queens University Press |
September 30, 2009 |
304 pages
First ed. by: New York: Scribner's, c1967.
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Recounting Migration
McGill Queens Univ |
July 25, 2011 |
248 pages
Christina Clark-Kazak, a former international aid worker, uses extensive interviews done in Kampala and Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda, to present the narratives of ten young people living as refugees. Their accounts reveal both political awareness and individual agency in everyday and... More Info
Annihilation
McGill Queens Univ Pr |
January 1, 2009 |
258 pages
A suggestive and broad examination of the philosophical issues surrounding death.
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Satanic Purses
McGill Queens University Press |
August 1, 2008 |
432 pages
In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global War on Islamic Terror - as based on myth and misinformation.
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Materialist Ethics and Life-Value
McGill Queens Univ |
April 28, 2012 |
256 pages
Current patterns of global economic activity are not only unsustainable, but unethical - this claim is central to Materialist Ethics and Life-Value. Grounding the definition of ethical value in the natural and social requirements of life-support and life-development shared by all human beings, Jeff... More Info
Badiou's Deleuze
McGill Queens Univ |
March 28, 2012 |
240 pages
Badiou's reading of Deleuze is largely laid out in his provocative book, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Badiou's Deleuze presents a detailed examination of Badiou's reading and argues that, while it fails to do justice to the Deleuzean project, it invites us to reconsider and reassess Deleuze's... More Info
Harold Innis in the New Century
McGill Queens Univ |
June 19, 1999 |
435 pages
A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.
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The Empire Within
McGill Queens Univ |
March 25, 2010 |
303 pages
"This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada." "McGill-Queen's University Press... More Info
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