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On the Edge of Greatness: Volume III, 1952-1957
John Humphrey, McGill University law professor and human rights advocate, became the first director of the United Nations Human Rights Division in 1946 and held the position until …
Søren Kierkegaard Bibliographies
These bibliographies, compiled in one volume, are a component of the computerized International Kierkegaard Bibliographic Database (IKBD) but stand alone because of their unique …
Ethnography and Development
An insightful exploration of the work and continued influence of a groundbreaking anthropologist.
Collected Curios
Edward Archibald
A biography of the father of thoracic surgery in North America and a detailed account of one of the most exciting periods in the history of medicine.
Arabic Lithographed Books
Adam Gacek describes the collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arabic lithographed books preserved in the Islamic Studies Library at McGill University, which …
On the Edge of Greatness, Volume I
The first of three projected volumes of Humphrey's diaries, Volume 1 (1948-49) covers the meetings in Geneva and Paris leading to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human …
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis has raised crucial questions for architectural representation since the seventh century when epistemological conditions for modern thought and architecture were first …
Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University
A descriptive catalogue of a sizeable and rich collection of Persian manuscripts
A Garment Worker's Legacy
In addition to standard works, the collection includes many rare books, most of which have been preserved in vintage condition by beautiful hand-made jackets fashioned by …
Sources in Iconography in the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art, McGill University
"Evident in recent decades is a significant rise in the use of iconography among scholars dealing with the art of the Modern period. With the shift away from the once dominant …
Quintessential Canadian Anaesthetist, Wesley Bourne
Bourne led the "Great Triumvirate" of Montreal anaesthetists - himself, Harold Griffith, and Digby Leigh, who dominated much of anaesthesia in the 1940s. Responding to wartime …