Mcgill Queen S University Press: 33 books

Glenn Gould (19321982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art. Countering this common misperception Partita for Glenn Gould is an eloquent tribute to the artist that illuminates his versatile genius his thinking and our reasons for loving his art.

In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being...

Selling Out demonstrates that the logics of value of the market and of universities are not only different but opposed to one another. By introducing the reader to a variety of cases some well known and others not Woodhouse explains how academic freedom and university autonomy are being subordinated...

Hidden among the simple lists of ingredients and directions for everyday foods are surprising stories. In Baking as Biography Diane Tye considers her mothers recipe collection reading between the lines of the aging index cards to provide a candid and nuanced portrait of one womans life as mother ministers wife and participant in local Maritime womens networks.

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 people that have been passed down from generation to generation as part of a rich oral tradition.

With the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. She traces an evocative history of literary passages across familiar sites - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent Mile End Mont Royal - as she follows...

At first an evangelical missionary of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fisherman Grenfell became part of philanthropic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Raising funds in Canada and the United States he founded a network of hospitals nursing stations schools and home industries that exists...

While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not "bite to the bone." In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized.

The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire.

Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing. Self-government requires a territory delineated by official...

In this informative critique of contemporary leadership renowned political scientist Donald Savoie poses and answers the crucial questions: where is power located and who is in charge? In recent years it has become extremely difficult to pinpoint the location of political and economic power making it...

Distinguishing between the Internet a communication system and cyberspace an environment for human exchange the author provides a framework for exploring the metaphors and images used in cyberspace to represent and model social reality. He clarifies how these symbolic interactions are linked to the technologies...

What do you do?" is often the first question posed when strangers meet as occupation reveals a great deal about both social identity and social standing or "occupational prestige.

Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings. The fact that he also shared traditional...