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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 3h

Some excellent evening listening: Matthieu Caron interviewed on the Witness to Yesterday podcast about Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City.

Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City

James Stewart (J.D.M.) speaks with Matthieu Caron about his book, Montreal After Dark: Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 5h

Sharing some additional CBC coverage of last week's 200th anniversary of the Great Miramichi Fire of 1825. Thanks to author Alan MacEachern for contributing to the history of this natural disaster. buff.ly/fkR5uDS

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 7h

Tomorrow night! @christinamyers.bsky.social and I are helping @danielaelza.bsky.social launch not one, but two books: Is This an Illness or an Accident? (@caitlinpress.bsky.social) and Scar/city (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social).

Wednesday, Oct 15, @bookwarehouse.bsky.social Main Street, 7 PM!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 6h

A recent CBC interview with author Alan MacEachern about The Miramichi Fire: A History. buff.ly/yU251bF

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7h

Setup is complete! We are officially in attendance at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025. Come visit us in the Canada Stand (Hall 6.0 | A 133). You can also browse the Rights Canada catalogue online: buff.ly/2BACFDM

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you to Anishinabek News for this excellent coverage of Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School by Jackson Pind.

Resilience baked in Curve Lake First Nation archives, says author of new book – Anishinabek News

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI: Authors John Sandlos and Arn Keeling on CBC's On the Go, discussing The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife. buff.ly/IcDlznJ

McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 10h

"The North will be under increasing pressure to develop more mines as the demand for rare earth minerals grows. If all interested parties are not on their toes, another environmental tragedy could be just around the corner." The Price of Gold launches this week in Yellowknife!

'The Price of Gold' book launch set for Oct. 16 in Yellowknife

Corporate greed and inadequate regulations led to death and environmental destruction

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 11h

"Foresight and planning and thinking about the future, and not just thinking about the short term when it comes to development projects, is very, very important.” The message at the heart of The Price of Gold by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling shared by CKLB in the NWT.

New book reflects on history of Giant Mine - CKLB Radio

The story of the Giant Mine is one that most Yellowknife residents know well, but two authors have come together to share their findings on the legacy the mine has left behind, from the societal to…

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 12h

Many thanks to the Ottawa Citizen for including Huda Mukbil's award-winning book, Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism, in this round-up of inspiring Canadian stories!

Four inspiring Canadian-written books about those who have broken barriers

Pumpkin spice? Meh. Here are some real treats to warm up to this October.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 13h

As a Muslim woman of African and Arab heritage, Huda Mukbil broke barriers as an intelligence officer in CSIS. In this Toronto Star excerpt from Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism, she begins to organize for lasting change.

The distrust revealed in one word — ‘aftercare’ — meant I had to leave CSIS. A book excerpt from an agency pathbreaker

Despite excelling at an exam required for a promotion, a former colleague's candidacy was rejected. His manager told him "go complain to Allah."

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 1d

Join Sirous Houshmand for the launch of his book, The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran's Evin Prison in Toronto on Sunday, October 26!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 4d

Backyard Theory Group included us in this fab summer line-up for their book club @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Book citations for recent books by Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte, Michael Serres and Bruno Latour, Slavoj Žižek, and Jodi Dean.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 4d

What a wonderful event!

On Wednesday evening, Martha Langford launched her new book, A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918, at the McCord Stewart Museum.

Learn more about the book: buff.ly/Q97xh2W

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 4d

Watch this new Heritage Minute featuring Canadian zoologist Anne Innis Dagg!

Learn more about her remarkable life in her memoir, Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist buff.ly/AFZLJpG

NEW Heritage Minute: Anne Innis Dagg

Enjoy these Heritage Minutes brought to you by Historica Canada! While free to view and share, these productions remain under copyright. Re-uploads or modified versions are strictly prohibited…

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 6d

Authors John Sandlos and Arn Keeling on CBC's On the Go discussing their new book, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Join the authors of Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees for the launch of their book in Winnipeg on October 18!

Hearts of Freedom: Stories of Southeast Asian Refugees

CommonWord Bookstore and Resource Centre

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Join Bohdan Kordan for the launch of No Place Like Home in Ottawa tomorrow evening!

Learn more:

Book Launch: Bohdan Kordan | Audreys Books

Edmonton's Oldest Independent Bookstore selling new books for adults and children

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 7d

Join Adrian Ciani for the launch of his book, Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine, at the Toronto School of Theology on Thursday, October 9!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

"From the start, the iPod’s surface was fetishized by Apple and Apple customers alike." Read more about iPods in Stephen Monteiro's new book, Needy Media, featured in the Toronto Star.

Our iPods, ourselves: a new book explores how we came to adore our devices

We took them everywhere and even engraved them. Then all of a sudden they had skins. As one theorist notes, the skins' arrival “explicitly connects the iPod to flesh, to

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Stephen Monteiro @stephenmonteiro.bsky.social · 9d

Interested in how iPod personalization practices - the engravings, the tattoos, the skins - helped set the stage for today’s device intimacy? Check out the Toronto Star’s excerpt from Needy Media, my new @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social book.

www.thestar.com/news/insight...

Our iPods, ourselves: a new book explores how we came to adore our devices

We took them everywhere and even engraved them. Then all of a sudden they had skins. As one theorist notes, the skins' arrival “explicitly connects the iPod to flesh, to

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

Many thanks to the New Brunswick Museum for sharing photos from A History of Photography in Canada by Martha Langford. The first volume has just published - take a sneak peek here:

A History of Photography in Canada - New Brunswick Museum

The deposit copy of Martha Langford’s long awaited book, A History of Photography in Canada [Volume I – Anticipation to Participation] (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) has just been received…

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 8d

Join Martha Langford for the launch of the first of her three-volume History of Photography in Canada, 1839-2010 at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal this Wednesday!

RSVP and/or request link to livestream at [email protected] by the end of the day today.

More details: buff.ly/eMVU5JB

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Matthew R Anderson @mrapomquet.bsky.social · 12d

Quentin Amundson wrote a lovely piece in The Catholic Register about Prophets of Love (MQUP), and the five-afternoon online class on Leonard and Paul I'm teaching for Atlantic School of Theology (still some spots open!) digital.catholicregister.org/Catholic-Reg...

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Toronto School of Theology @torschtheology.bsky.social · 12d

Coming up on October 9, 5:00 pm at the TST building, Dr. Adrian Ciani (St. Augustine's Seminary) launches his new book, "Contesting Zion: The Vatican, American Catholics, and the Partition of Palestine," published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Details below...

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