Mqup imprint: 803 books
Liberating Temporariness?
Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental...
The Book of Absolutes
A Critique of Relativism and a Defence of Universals
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Gairdner refutes the popular belief in cultural relativism by showing that there are hundreds of well-established cross-cultural "human universals." He then discusses the many universals found in physics - as well as Einstein's personal regret at how his work was misinterpreted by the public's...
Canadian Medicare
We Need It and We Can Keep It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals....
From Peasants to Labourers
Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
Written from the migration systems perspective, From Peasants to Labourers places the migration of Ukrainian and Belarusan peasant-workers within the context of Old- and New-World economic structures and state policies. Through painstaking analysis of thousands of personal migrant files in the archives...
Rethinking Social Evolution
The Perspective from Middle-Range Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2006
The focus of Rousseau's enquiry is "middle-range" societies - a vast category between hunter-gatherers and states. Breaking away from traditional analyses of social evolution as a response to ecological constraints, he shows that social systems are maintained and transformed through self-interest...
Canada's Residential Schools: Reconciliation
The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and missionaries agreed that in order to “civilize and Christianize” Aboriginal children, it was necessary to separate them from their parents and...
Missing the Tide
Global Governments in Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The 1990s were a decade characterized by optimism about a great future that lay ahead for generations to follow. Major challenges were approached with a realization that the world leadership had the capacity not only to meet them, but to turn them into unprecedented opportunities for global social...
Green-lite
Complexity in Fifty Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Governance, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Anchored in the core literature on natural resources, energy production, and environmental analysis, Green-lite is a critical examination of Canadian environmental policy, governance, and politics drawing out key policy and governance patterns to show that the Canadian story is one of complexity and...
by Edgar J. Dosman
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Raúl Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and international economic policy, an institution builder, and an international diplomat. The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch provides the first book-length account of his life and work, a story cast against the backdrop of Latin America, the...
Shared Responsibility
The United Nations in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Global power structures are changing. The United States and Europe are losing ground, as countries such as China and India increase their global reach. At the same time that new global players emerge, multinational corporations, global civil society organizations, and international media carve out their...
Building Nations from Diversity
Canadian and American Experience Compared
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian "mosaic" has differed from the American "melting pot" and provides an informative comparison of both countries' historical and present-day similarities and differences. Garth Stevenson examines the origins...
How Ottawa Spends, 2013-2014
The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper's Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority. Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term...
Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises
Shifting Budgetary Domains and Temporal Budgeting
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crunch, a pending era of budgetary austerity looms over Canada. Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises provides a roadmap through the difficult fiscal decisions that have characterized contemporary federal politics across four decades. The authors provide...
by Jeff Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering....