General Books

With visual treats and moveable surprises at the turn of every page, AMAZE will inspire interactive moments of wonder with McGill's extraordinary collections.

From Anatomy to Zoology, this experience will AMAZE, intrigue, and perhaps even move the reader. This beautiful book showcases a few curated selections in a way that brings them to life, and in some cases allows them to move off the page. In the pages that pop up, or have tabs and widgets, viewers will be able to discover some of the hidden treasures that remain hard to see in two-dimensional space.

Publication date: March, 2021

37 pages

CBC’s “60 works of Canadian nonfiction to watch for in fall 2022”

In the absence of motorized boats and gondolas, Venice’s waters have returned to a sparkling blue color. Deer have been spotted roaming cities in Italy, and mountain goats recently took over a small seaside town in Wales. Taking advantage of the decreased boat traffic, whales have returned to roaming Vancouver’s harbours. The absence of “regular” human activities has dramatically affected our environment. In this book, Bob McDonald turns his focus to global energy sources, and shows how the global shutdowns may have been exactly what we needed to show us that a greener future is achievable.

This is not another “wake-up call,” and not another plea to heed the climate science. This is an exploration of the incredible technologies that our species can use to get out of the mess we’ve made for ourselves. It is a work of immense optimism, to counteract the sense of doom that hangs over most discussions of the environment.

Many alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and geothermal have been available for decades—but they alone will not be enough. Additional power will come from small nuclear reactors the size of an office desk, and space-based solar power satellites with enormous mirrors that can capture sunlight, convert it to microwaves, and beam it to the ground to light up entire cities. Energy will be captured from waves, tides, and hydrogen. Vehicles will no longer have tailpipes that emit smog particles. Food will be sourced locally.

Green technology is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, and will only continue to skyrocket as current products improve their performance and new products emerge. A new green age is upon us--let this book be your guide to the future..

Publication date: September 27, 2022

304 pages

"This enlightening collection offers every reader something new to learn and marvel over." -- Booklist

Bestselling popular science author Dr. Joe Schwarcz debunks the baloney and serves up the raw facts in this appetizing collection about the things we eat Eating has become a confusing experience. Should we follow a keto diet? Is sugar the next tobacco? Does fermented cabbage juice cure disease? Are lectins toxic? Is drinking poppy seed tea risky? What's with probiotics? Can packaging contaminate food? Should our nuts be activated? What is cockroach milk? We all have questions, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz has the answers, some of which will astonish you. This collection is guaranteed to satisfy your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information as Dr. Joe separates fact from fiction with an assortment of new and updated articles about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to recognize the scientific basis of food chemistry.

Publication date: October 8th, 2019

312 pages

The corrector analyzes your text and flags any detections in one easy operation. This allows you not only to correct any errors but also to improve the style. Hover over a highlighted word to see a tooltip with corrections and their explanations or a suggested replacement. Click to confirm, and the text is automatically replaced.

As well as correcting spelling and grammar, you can also clean up your typography, eliminate repetitions and replace any non-inclusive terms thanks to the smart filters. No software has ever given you so much power to refine your writing.

Read the definition, then toggle between resources or words to pinpoint the perfect choice—all in just a few clicks. View synonyms, antonyms, expressions, semantic fields and word families. Find inspiration with the combinations, which tell you the strongest associations between words. Check the word’s conjugation, hear it pronounced,* take note of the difficulties highlighted by our linguists and view thousands of carefully selected examples. With its incomparable depth and powerful search engines, Antidote pushes the limits of what dictionaries can do.

When you click on a tooltip in the corrector, the grammar guide opens at the right page, providing a clear and concise description of the rules and their exceptions. Learn it all thanks to tips and relevant examples. Easily browse through related material or through all 520 articles, which cover all aspects of writing including spelling, lexicon, punctuation and syntax.

Say goodbye to typos and missing attachments. Anti⁠-⁠Oops! works with all major email applications on Windows and Mac. Acting as a safety net, it analyzes each message before you send it, allowing you to fix any oversights before it’s too late.

An endearing story about reading to your favourite animal. For animal lovers ages 6 years and up.

James struggles with reading and misses recess to practice. To cheer himself up, he visits the cat rescue shelter and befriends Ghost, the cat in the box. But Ghost isn’t quite ready to make friends! As his reading improves, James learns that kindness and perseverance can have unexpected rewards and that having a furry friend is the best gift of all.

Publication date: October 15th, 2021

32 pages

La nouvelle édition de L Art de conjuguer permet de trouver facilement toutes les informations sur la conjugaison d un verbe, grâce à : 95 tableaux modèles ; un repérage immédiat des verbes réguliers et irréguliers, ainsi que des temps et des modes ; une nouvelle mise en évidence des difficultés de conjugaison ; une liste alphabétique de tous les verbes de la langue française et leur renvoi aux tableaux modèles. Elle donne aussi accès à des explications claires pour accorder et employer correctement les verbes : toutes les règles d accord et d emploi sont expliquées simplement, en lien avec la grammaire nouvelle ; pour chaque verbe, des indications sur l accord du participe passé sont données dans la liste alphabétique.

Publication date: May 10th, 2012

264 pages

McGILL AUTHOR

Tommy Schnurmacher has written a book that could change your life. It changed his.

As a writer, Montreal media icon Schnurmacher is an intense force of nature, a seismic swell of visceral empathy, laser-sharp wit and courageous self-analysis.

Now meet Olga. Auschwitz prisoner A-25057, aka Mom, A fearless, dramatic and unpredictable maverick. An original.

Exposing the souls of a family for all to see, Make-up Tips from Auschwitz is an addictive page-turner. Schnurmacher's voice resonates with a lyrical cadence all his own and an unsettling candor reminiscent of humorist David Sedaris and essayist Augusten Burroughs.

Like the Oscar-winning film, Life is Beautiful, Schnurmacher revisits the Holocaust with rays of light in the darkness.

Sparkling with chutzpah and charm, this is a story of a family's cultural collision and delightful dysfunction. With the growing pains of Shtisel, the earthiness of The Simpsons and the fierce family loyalty of The Sopranos, these newcomers from Hungary defy authority. They figured out early on that conventional values were not enough. It was their moxie that allowed them to succeed.

Schmooze with the passing parade that includes John Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor and Crystal Nacht. You will laugh out loud as you meet a cast of supporting characters who redefine eccentric: the 50-minute therapist, the psychic rabbi and a superstitious hypochondriac named Paris.

Once you get to know these mutineers from the mainstream, you will want to organize an intervention. Or at least a Passover Seder.

Publication date: August 15th, 2019

278 pages

McGILL AUTHOR

Curators. Activists. Hockey Players. Students. Medical Illustrators. Secretaries. Portrait Artists. Sculptors.

Many Women, Many Voices celebrates the voices of women in all of those roles and many more. Shining a light on the untold stories of the women who have shaped McGill and Montreal, it offers illustrated vignettes from the ROAAr collections – Rare Books and Special Collections, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, the Visual Arts Collection, and the McGill University Archives.

Soothe little ones to sleep with this beautiful board book featuring a sweetly illustrated and tender lullaby first composed by Holocaust survivor, Dr. Lena Allen-Shore for her son, Jacques, and then adapted further by them for this children's book.

Sleep, my baby, my lovely baby

I wish you good night.

The stars are smiling

they say to you

be happy all your life.

Author, teacher, and poet, Dr. Lena Allen-Shore made her mark on the world in innumerable ways, but she made the most endearing and enduring mark on her sons by singing "Sleep, My Baby" to them as they drifted off to bed each night. This extended version of the original, written by both Dr. Shore and her son Jacques, celebrates mothers all over the world and shares the universal messaging of hope, peace, and love as children are gently lulled to sleep knowing they are safe, sound, and protected from harm.

Publication date: April 20, 2021

18 pages

In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising--which became known as Tacky's Revolt--featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. It was also part of a more extended borderless conflict that spread from Africa to the Americas and across the island. Even after it was put down, the insurgency rumbled throughout the British Empire at a time when slavery seemed the dependable bedrock of its dominion. That certitude would never be the same, nor would the views of black lives, which came to inspire both more fear and more sympathy than before.

Tracing the roots, routes, and reverberations of this event across disparate parts of the Atlantic world, Vincent Brown offers us a superb geopolitical thriller. Tacky's Revolt expands our understanding of the relationship between European, African, and American history, as it speaks to our understanding of wars of terror today.

Publication date: January 14th, 2020

336 pages

Now more relevant than ever, seven decades of McGill University’s Beatty Lectures, in print together for the first time.

The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Some of the series’ greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, have been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the McGill Archives.

To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, With the World to Choose From spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades. Readers can discover - or rediscover - these important and inspiring lectures, all in print for the first time. One of the twentieth century’s most influential visionaries, the economist Barbara Ward, opens this anthology with her future-looking 1955 lecture. Lectures from acclaimed biologist Robert Sinsheimer, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, philosopher Charles Taylor, and author and social commentator Roxane Gay carry readers through the decades that followed and up to the present, treating subjects from the tensions of Cold War politics and the implications of genetic engineering to the origins of life in the universe and the watershed #MeToo movement. Some of today’s leading academics add contextual and biographical information to each chapter, and an introduction sheds light on the history of the Beatty Lecture and the life of its notable namesake.

Illustrated with a selection of photographs and ephemera, With the World to Choose From provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series.

Publication date: Sept. 15 2021

336 pages