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Maddie and the Norseman

Maddie and the Norseman

by Tricia McGill
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Madeline (Maddie to her friends), an Australian history teacher, travels to York, England, to visit her friend Amber who is working there with a team of archaeologists unearthing Viking relics. They share a passion for the Viking Age, and both studied the Old Norse language. About to take part in a re-enactment at the Viking village and wearing typ …

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Medicine and Duty

Medicine and Duty

The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F.
edited by Marjorie Barron N, foreword by Patrick Brennan
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"The story of the individual always grips us - it is why biography remains so popular. But in Medicine and Duty we receive a double serving: the story of Medical Officer Captain Harold W. McGill coupled with the story of the many men who served in the 31st Battalion and what they together managed to achieve against such long odds." - Patrick Brenna …

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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

An Ecological History
by John L. Riley
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North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare …

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Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

by Ryan Walker & Ted Jojola
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Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect the rights and interests of Indigenous people, a …

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But for Now

But for Now

by Gordon Johnston
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From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is mor …

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The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records

The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records

by Colleen Sydor
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age: 10 to 14
Grade: 6 to 9
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This is an extraordinary story about a 13-year-old boy named Lee who loves setting personal and odd records. He's obsessed by them in fact - from tracing the annual public marathon with his dog Santiago to bouncing a basketball in the school playground for 12 hours straight with no one around - but he's not interested in going public with them.Alon …

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The Laird of Fort William

The Laird of Fort William

William McGillivray and the North West Company
by Irene Ternier Gordon
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High finance, wilderness adventures, violence, and questionable legal tactics all played important roles in the history of the North West Company. William McGillivray, head of the company from 1804 until 1821, was arguably the most powerful businessman in Canada in the early nineteenth century.

William McGillivray emigrated from the Scottish Highlan …

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Mind Technologies

Mind Technologies

Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community
contributions by David Strangway; Andrew Mactavish; Ray Siemens; Ian Lancashire; Michael Best; Renee Elio; Murray McGillivray; Alan Burk; James Chartrand; Robert Good; Charles Clarke; Paul Fortier; Karen McCloskey; Russon Wooldridge; John Bonnett; Geoffrey Rockwell; France Martineau; Sean Gouglas; Stefan Sinclair; Aimee Morrison; Natasha Flora; Terry Buttler; Scott Gerrity; Elaine Toms; Nicholas Griffin; Stephen Reimer; Lisa Charlong; Isobel Grundy; Susan Brown; Patricia Clements; Christian Vandendorpe & Peter Liddell, edited by Raymond Siemens
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In recent years, the application of computing technology to the arts and humanities has been a topic of increased focus in the post-secondary environment. With growing understanding of how these applications can serve the ongoing mission of humanities research, teaching, and training, technology is playing a larger role than ever before in these di …

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He Was Some Kind of a Man

He Was Some Kind of a Man

Masculinities in the B Western
by Roderick McGillis
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He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red R …

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Fear of a Black Nation

Fear of a Black Nation

Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
by David Austin
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In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean—people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Car …

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Tango on the Main

Tango on the Main

by Joe Fiorito
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In this award-winning collection from his Montreal Gazette city columns, Joe Fiorito reveals the true heart and soul of a large city. He walks the streets, meeting and talking to the people who make the city tick, but never make the front-page news. In Tango on the Main he introduces us to Jackie of the Ritz, Montreal's chambermaid to the stars...t …

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Canadian Policing in the 21st Century

Canadian Policing in the 21st Century

A Frontline Officer on Challenges and Changes
by Robert Chrismas
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How can police remain effective and vital in an era of unprecedented technological advances, access to information, and the global transformation of crime? Written by a long-serving officer, Canadian Policing in the 21st Century offers a rare look at street-level police work and the hidden culture behind the badge.

Robert Chrismas shares experiences …

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From Literature to Biterature

From Literature to Biterature

Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution
by Peter Swirski
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From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a milli …

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The Politics of the Pantry

The Politics of the Pantry

Stories, Food, and Social Change
by Michael Mikulak
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"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways.

These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, alternative food gurus su …

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The Edge of the Precipice

The Edge of the Precipice

Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
edited by Paul Socken
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Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid communication?

In The Edge of the Precipice, Paul Socke …

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O.D. Skelton

O.D. Skelton

The Work of the World, 1923-1941
edited by Norman Hillmer
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O.D. Skelton: The Work of the World, 1923-1941 is a lively and compelling trip through the letters, diary entries, and official memoranda of O.D. Skelton, one of the most important and influential civil servants in twentieth-century Canada.

Skelton was a towering foreign policy advisor to Canada's prime ministers and a lonely advocate for the count …

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Before Ontario

Before Ontario

The Archaeology of a Province
edited by Marit K. Munson & Susan M. Jamieson
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Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples.

With contributions …

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Dear Marian, Dear Hugh

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh

The Maclennan-Engel Correspondence
edited by Christl Verduyn
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A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursu …

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Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street

by Al Palmer
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One of the earliest Canadian noir novels, Sugar-Puss on Dorchester Street tells the story of Gisele Lepine, beautiful farmer’s daughter who leaves her sleepy faming community for the neon lights of Montreal. In the fast-paced city, dreams quickly turn to nightmares as the young ‘farmette’ finds herself surrounded by drug-dealers, newspapermen …

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The Ethical Imagination

The Ethical Imagination

Journeys of the Human Spirit
by Margaret Somerville
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Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world?

In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist an …

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Ravenscrag

Ravenscrag

A Novel
by Alain Farah, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
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The writer Alain Farah is living in two time periods, and he feels out of place in both. At the opening of his story, we find ourselves at McGill in 1962 and 2012. But the real problem lies elsewhere: on campus, a psychiatrist is conducting dangerous and unethical experiments on his patients. The writer’s uncle, Nab Safi, knows something about it …

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Nellcott Is My Darling

Nellcott Is My Darling

by Golda Fried
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Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award

Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the c …

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With a Closed Fist

With a Closed Fist

Growing Up in Canada's Toughest Neighbouhood
by Kathy Dobson
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A gutsy, no-holds-barred, coming-of-age story.

In the Point St. Charles of the author’s childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment is on fire, or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares her early years growing up in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal (now in the process of gentrificat …

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Give Your Other Vote to the Sister

Give Your Other Vote to the Sister

A Woman's Journey into the Great War
by Debbie Marshall
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"[Marshall's] work in responding to the challenge of exploring a little-known life should be an inspiration to other students of history … people across Canada will find it a pleasant way to become better acquainted with an attractive, interesting and unfamiliar contributor to our history." - Desmond Morton, McGill University

Give Your Other Vote …

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Portrait of a Scandal

Portrait of a Scandal

The Abortion Trial of Robert Notman
by Elaine Kalman Naves
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In the winter of 1868 a name Montreal society associated with art, good breeding, and culture became fodder for scandal mongers. The Notman name, synonymous with fine photography, was suddenly making headlines featuring the words "abortion" and "suicide." A dozen years earlier, two brothers fled their native Scotland . They were attracted to Montre …

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Peter Martyr Vermigli

Peter Martyr Vermigli

and Italian Reform
by Joseph C. McLelland
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Renaissance and Reformation—partners or enemies? The popular image of these two historical phenomena is one of opposition and contradiction: the Renaissance was a cultural revival influenced by classical philosophy; the Reformation was a radical religious movement which rejected traditional authority. But in the life and work of Peter Martyr Verm …

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