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| ABORIGINAL CULTURES IN ALBERTA : Five Hundred Generations [Susan Berry & Jack Brink] This heavily illustrated, full colour book uses the framework of historical narrative to elucidate the past 11,000 years of Aboriginal history in present-day Alberta. In so doing, it conveys the challenges that Aboriginal people have confronted and celebrates the enduring legacy that they have created. From medicine wheels, buffalo jumps, and rock art images, the story moves forward through the fur trade era, the disappearance of the bison, and the long years of cultural suppression that followed the signing of treaties. Importantly, the story carries through to the present day, exploring grassroots political and cultural movements of the 1960s, contemporary self-government initiatives, and the ongoing reclamation of Aboriginal voice. Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta, Five Hundred Generations also showcases the diversity of Aboriginal groups in Alberta. The book was developed in consultation with and features the experiences and perspectives of Elders and representatives from First Nations and Metis communities throughout the province. With its recognition that Aboriginal people are a vital part of contemporary society, Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta, Five Hundred Generations makes an important contribution toward fostering an understanding of Aboriginal history and culture in Alberta. { 82pp, 215x280mm, June 2007; PB, £11.99, 0778528529:9780778528524 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ADAPTED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY [Robert Steadward, Garry Wheeler & Elizabeth Watkinson (eds)] This comprehensive textbook examines adapted physical activity across the disciplinary spectrum. From the history of adapted physical education to current practices in rehabilitative medicine, working with children with emotional disabilities to developing care plans for adults with movement limitations, this collection surveys issues and helps students plan sensible, well-grounded programmes. This is an essential volume for students, teachers, and practitioners in physical education, physical and occupational therapy, rehabilitative or sports medicine, nursing, and health science, as well as anyone who works with people who have disabilities. REVIEW: "Thirty-two chapters by researchers and service providers brings socio-cultural, psychological, and functional perspectives to the discussion of sports, physical education, and recreation. Emphasising issues of inclusion, the textbook addresses the developmental and current state of physical activity opportunities across the continuum of schools, community, and elite sport." -- Reference & Research Book News, November issue. { 650pp, 210x260mm, February 2003; HB, £52.99, 0888643756:9780888643759 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ALBERTA ELDERS' CREE DICTIONARY : Alperta Ohci Kehtehayak Nehiyaw Otwestamakewasinahikan [Nancy LeClaire & George Cardinal; Edited by Earle Waugh] Cree is the most widespread native language in Canada. This is a highly usable and effective dictionary that will serve students, business, governments and media. Designed for speakers, students and teachers of Cree; includes Cree-English and English-Cree sections. { 577pp, 200x255mm, December 1998; PB, £29.50, 0888642849:9780888642844 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ALBERTA SUPREME COURT AT 100 : History & Authority [Jonathan Swainger (ed)] This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan response to the varied legal questions of the past century. Canvassing the Court's jurisprudential history, the volume includes thematic essays examining First Nations' hunting rights, oil and gas law, water law, gender, the Hutterites and religious freedom, and family law. Additional essays detail the court's history through its early personnel, the World War I crisis over the court's independence, and the question of whether the court voiced an Albertan take on the constitution. What emerges is not the image of a maverick judiciary, but rather a court that pursued legal principles that would stand anywhere in the nation. Co-published with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) { 366pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; HB, £26.50, 0888644930:9780888644930 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ALBERTA'S LOCAL GOVERNMENTS : Politics & Democracy [Jack Masson & Edward LeSage Jr] Covering the period from the first settlements to 1994, this book focuses on the practice of democracy in Alberta's urban and rural municipalities, relations between these municipalities and the provincial gov-ernment, and the provincial government's policy of the territorial decentralisation of municipal economic activity. This book completely updates and revises Professor Masson's earlier study published in the mid- 1980s. In recent years Alberta has modified the structure of local government to provide further for greater representation and accountability and to foster self-government and democratic institutions in many of the province's sparsely settled areas. This appears to have been done primarily in order to transfer a greater share of the costs of local government to the municipalities, rather than to grant them a measure of fiscal autonomy, yet surprisingly few municipal politicians have resisted the govern-ment's financial policies. During the last decade Alberta municipalities have endured hardships that they have not faced since the Great Depression. This book documents the policies and events that have tested and strengthened their commitment to democratic government. { 602pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; PB, £17.99, 0888642512:9780888642516 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ALGAL BOWL : Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters & Estuaries [David W Schindler & John R Vallentyne] The greatest threat to water quality worldwide is nutrient pollution. Cultural eutrophication by nutrients in sewage, fertilizers, and detergents is feeding massive algal blooms, choking out aquatic life and outpacing heavy metals, oil spills, and other toxins in the devastation wrought upon the world's fresh waters. Renowned water scientists, David W Schindler and John R Vallentyne, share their combined 80 years of experience with the eutrophication problem to explain its history and science, and offer real-world solutions for mitigating this catastrophe in the making. For those who have lost sight of Vallentyne's 1974 first edition, Schindler's fully revised and expanded edition is an unambiguous road map for change. { 344pp, 155x230mm, October 2008; PB, £20.99, 0888644841:9780888644848 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ALL TRUE THINGS : A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008 [Rod Macleod. Foreword by Jim Edwards] This is a critical history of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta and a splendid way to mark the University's centennial. Professor Emeritus of History and alumnus, Rod Macleod, relates the University's coming of age against the parallel history of the Province of Alberta's remarkable growth. All True Things -- a variation on the University of Alberta's motto, Quæcumque Vera, or, "Whatsoever Things Are True" -- uncovers times of triumph and trouble by examining key people, circumstances, and decisions of that first century. What emerges is an enduring narrative of an institutional will to thrive and become a vibrant centre of learning. As the University embarks on its second century, this definitive source of information and reflection on institutional history and governance will inspire future leaders and policy makers and delight the University of Alberta's many friends far and wide. { 276pp, 180x255mm, October 2008; HB, £29.50, 0888644442:9780888644442 , University of Alberta Press } |
| APOSTLE OF THE NORTH : Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas [H Cody; Introduction by William Morrison & Kenneth Coates] H A Cody's 'An Apostle of the North', originally published in 1908, captures perfectly the zeal of the 19th century missionary and tells the story of a man called to do God's work in the Diocese of Athabasca in the most northern regions of Canada. Bishop William Carpenter Bompas was a difficult man, cantankerous, stubborn, and more than a little eccentric. He carried on his shoulders the deep spirituality of his own faith, the assumptions of his background, and the cultural aggressiveness of the Victorian age. He was a church leader who often disagreed with his church and ignored its advice. Bompas's life in the North offers insights into the compelling force of religion and faith, one of the most pervasive forces in human experience, capable of transforming people, creating conflict, spreading hope, motivating entire nations, and, as history has shown, making horrible and damaging mistakes. In a new Introduction, historians William Morrison and Ken Coates examine Bompas's career, exploring themes central to the history of the church in Canada and to aboriginal-newcomer relations and giving a new critical evaluation of the missionary enterprise. REVIEW: "...Morrison and Coates decided to write an extensive introduction and republish H.A. Cody's 1908 biography of Bompas. The introduction is excellent; they provide context for understanding the significance of Bompas's life and offer their own appreciation for Cody's work....Through a work that has largely been forgotten, Morrison and Coates have helped recover an important figure and have raised significant questions about how we have come to understand the role of Western religion in the Pacific Northwest." -- Dale E. Soden, Whitworth College, Pacific Northwest Quarterly Volume 95 number 1. "H.A. Cody wrote An Apostle of the North in 1908, when a missionary could still be a hero, and Cody had no doubt that Bishop Bompas was heroic. The editors of this edition, two history professors of scrupulous academic detachment, come close to wondering if he might have been right....[The editors] recognized the existing biography as an important historical document in its own right, and decided to reprint it, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction from their modern perspectives. Their choice to conceptualise, and not to rewrite, results in a multi-level work which re-introduces not only Bompas, but his Boswell as well." -- Phyllis Reeve, BC Historical News Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3. "Historians will welcome this reissue of H.A. Cody's 1908 An Apostle of the North. Kenneth S. Coates and William S. Morrison had intended to write a biography of Bompas (1834-1906) but the dearth of personal papers led them to edit a contemporary's memoirs." -- Jacqueline Gresko, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 55, No. 3. "Those interested in the history of Native-newcomer relations, northern Canada, and religious or mission history will find the reissue of this biography useful and the introduction compelling." -- Myra Rutherdale (U of Sask.), The Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 85, No. 1. { 476pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; PB, £17.99, 0888644000:9780888644008 , University of Alberta Press } |
| APOSTROPHES 2 : Through You I [E D Blodgett] Here, in the second volume of a series, E D Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, this is a lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. { 74pp, 165x165mm, January 1998; PB, £8.99, 0888643047:9780888643049 , University of Alberta Press } |
| APOSTROPHES 4 : Speaking You Is Holiness [E D Blodgett] Governor-General's award-winning poet E D Blodgett continues his series of meditations on love, living, and loss. This intelligent collection offers more of Blodgett's lush imagery and deep questioning within the apostrophe form. A lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. { 66pp, 165x165mm, September 2000; PB, £9.99, 0888643527:9780888643520 , University of Alberta Press } |
| APOSTROPHES VI : Open the Grass [E D Blodgett] E D Blodgett, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, returns to Apostrophes with a music passing through his eyes. This collection, open the grass, brings glimpses into eternity, visions of a translucent muse trickling through fingers, and places of silence, and darkness, and epiphany. Blodgett’s poetry has the ability to penetrate the mundane with a profound aesthetic sense. His spare, strong words kick up pleasure in the eye and unforeseen recognition. These sixty-six poems open the natural world to embrace human passage. REVIEW: The poem "Spring" is featured in Legacy's spring 2005 issue. { 80pp, 130x230mm, June 2004; PB, £11.99, 0888644205:9780888644206 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ARCHBISHOP A-A TACHÉ OF ST BONIFACE : The 'Good Fight' & the Illusive Vision [Raymond Huel & Armand Joseph] Alexandre-Antonin Taché's career as a pioneer Oblate missionary and bishop coincided with some of the most momentous events in western Canadian history from the Red River Insurrection to the Manitoba schools question. Taché's zealous defence of French Catholic rights in the North West is indicative of the deep divisions in society concerning the extent of bilingualism and biculturalism in western Canada. REVIEW: "A new biography about Bishop and later Archbishop Alexandre Taché offers a critical view that may have you feeling sorry for this man, who played such a major role in the history of Western Canada. ... Taché's dream was to create a sister province for francophone and Roman Catholic Quebec. It never happened, and even in his own lifetime, Taché must have realized his dream would not be realized." Susan Jones, St. Albert Gazette. "It's interesting, if discouraging, to see that the forces that ultimately put an end to Taché's dream of a bilingual, bicultural Manitoba relied on the language of liberalism to advance their English-first, business-focussed agenda. Where Taché was committed to justice for the Métis and French-Canadian Catholics as peoples, his opponents relied on the concept of equal treatment of all individuals to turn Manitoba and the West generally into a carbon copy of Ontario." -- Alex Rettie, Alberta Views. "For years, specialists of nineteenth-century Canadian Church history have deplored the lack of a reliable, critical, and unbiased biography of one of the major figures of Western Canadian history: Alexandre-Antonin Taché, first bishop, then archbishop of St. Boniface (1853-1894), in what is now the province of Manitoba. Raymond J.A. Huel's recently published study on Taché and his "good fight" should in more ways than one satisfy these same specialists and put an end to their long wait....It is to be recommended to all those interested both in the Canadian Church history and the history of the Canadian North West." -- Pierre Hurtubise, The Catholic Historical Review. “Raymond Huel has undertaken the difficult task of writing a critical biography of the long-serving and complicated archbishop of St. Boniface, Alexandre-Antonin Taché. He has created for the reader a fascinating story of a church person who was spiritually and politically involved in the formation of the Catholic community at the nexus of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, now called Winnipeg, the capital of the province of Manitoba....Avoiding hagiography, Raymond Huel has composed a critical and definitive biography of a tragic player in the founding of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canadian north-west and a colourful person in Canadian religious and political life.” Terence J. Fay (University of Toronto), Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 36, No. 2, April 2005 { 430pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £23.50, 088864406X:9780888644060 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ARCHITECTURE, TOWN PLANNING & COMMUNITY : Selected Writings & Public Talks by Cecil Burgess, 1909-1946 [Donald G Wetherell] This collection of Burgess' public talks and writings offers a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection. A contemporary of Cecil Burgess said that no one in Canada was superior in architectural scholarship. Cecil Burgess was professor of architecture and resident architect at the University of Alberta between 1913 and 1940. { 440pp, 150x230mm, August 2005; PB, £23.50, 0888644558:9780888644558 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ARCTIC HELL-SHIP : The Voyage of HMS Enterprise, 1850-1855 [William Barr] In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Under Collinson's com-mand, the Enterprise was instructed to find and hopefully rescue, the Franklin expedition by approaching the Northwest Passage from the west. Barr tells the story of that most unusual journey, during which the crew passed three winters frozen into the arctic ice. Relations between Collinson and many of his officers were so poor that three of them spent most of the voyage under arrest [for treason?], only to be exonerated of the wrongful charges upon ar-rival back in the UK. This gripping tale is accompanied by a selection of vivid paintings by the ship’s assistant surgeon, Edward Adams. "Arctic Hell-Ship" is a story reminiscent of many Arctic explorers of the nineteenth century, whose lives on the sea became as bitter and unpredictable as the sea itself. { 332pp, 170x255mm, June 2007; PB, £20.99, 0888644728:9780888644725 / HB, £29.50, 0888644825:9780888644824 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ARCTIC HELL-SHIP : The Voyage of HMS Enterprise, 1850-1855 [William Barr] In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Under Collinson's com-mand, the Enterprise was instructed to find and hopefully rescue, the Franklin expedition by approaching the Northwest Passage from the west. Barr tells the story of that most unusual journey, during which the crew passed three winters frozen into the arctic ice. Relations between Collinson and many of his officers were so poor that three of them spent most of the voyage under arrest [for treason?], only to be exonerated of the wrongful charges upon ar-rival back in the UK. This gripping tale is accompanied by a selection of vivid paintings by the ship’s assistant surgeon, Edward Adams. "Arctic Hell-Ship" is a story reminiscent of many Arctic explorers of the nineteenth century, whose lives on the sea became as bitter and unpredictable as the sea itself. { 332pp, 170x255mm, June 2007; HB, £29.50, 0888644825:9780888644824 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ARK OF KOANS [E Blodgett; Illustrated by Jacques Brault] "An Ark of Koans" is a meditation on the mystery of what happens at the moment it happens. Although it takes animals as its threshold, animals only serve as innocent guides toward fathoming, if not understanding, events as small, inconceivable miracles. REVIEW: "These tiny quatrains are compressed meditations that expand in the mind to reveal glimpse after glimpse of a cosmic vision in which what happens in the world of animals resonates in the human world and in the realm of the divine. They have a kinship with cultural paradigms that reach back to a time before written language. Like the poems of Emily Dickinson and the songs of William Blake, their surprising energy is not the result of simple aggregation, but resides in and releases from the fact that the whole of Blodgett's poetic universe is present in each of its parts." -- George Amabile. “Governor-General's-Award winner E.D. Blodgett presents an excellent new volume, An Ark of Koans. Montreal illustrator Jacques Brault (a poet himself) accompanies the poems with a series of whimsical watercolours that recede as watermarks on the page (a curling fish, a slumping frog, and two insects are particularly notable). The book comprises a series of quatrains on animals, all admitted to the ark of a riddling mind, where they are preserved, one would like to think, from a flood of human indifference. This is by no means a book of environmental protest, but a poetry of identification, of imaginative engagement with the creaturely domain, the meditative word that incarnates and preserves....Blodgett's moving poems build a second ark of sorts, minute riddlings in a fallen rational world that bring love and wonderment to the cause.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vo. 74, No. 1, Winter 2004/5 { 68pp, 165x165mm, February 2003; PB, £11.99, 0888644043:9780888644046 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ART OF INSECT ILLUSTRATION & THREADS OF ENTOMOLOGICAL HISTORY [George Ball] This catalogue explores the interrelationship between the science of entomology and the art of illustration by highlighting some of the key holdings of early and classic works on insects in the University of Alberta Library. George E Ball demonstrates how advances in printing technologies from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries contributed to the developing body of entomological knowledge. { 80pp, January 2005; PB, £8.99, 1551951177:9781551951171 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BENTLEYS [Dennis Cooley] In Dennis Cooley's words: the bentleys also relates to Bloody Jack inasmuch as both titles are long poems, and both are responses to life as it has been imagined on the prairies. In 'The Bentleys' I 'revisit' an earlier time, the Dirty Thirties, yet the text I have constructed is in most respects recent to our time in its style and strategies. The manuscript is not constrained all that much by Ross's text, even as it is happily and provocatively enabled by it. The connections, then, are loose, so much so that many parts of the Bentleys would probably be unrecognisable to readers of Ross's classic novel. I might mention that in assembling 'The Bentleys' I was in part guided by a sense of the theatre. I've tried to run a performance metaphor through the manuscript and have, since I submitted it to Alberta, written 3 or 4 more poems along that line. I mention this not with the material. I started working on the manuscript in 1989, drawn to the situation: the Puritanism that constrains the characters, and that set against their fierce passions. I've always been struck about that in Canadian life and here was a gift: a frustrated musician, an aspiring painter -- and the two of them thwarted by the economic devastation of the Dirty Thirties and the claims of Puritanism. In a way it's everybody's story -- the force of desire and wish, the containment of their world. { 150pp, 155x230mm, November 2006; PB, £14.99, 0888644701:9780888644701 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BEST MOUNTED POLICE STORIES [Dick Harrison (ed)] The Mountie always gets his man. He asserts the law not by using violence but by denying it. He is a uniquely Canadian figure in the great stories of the West. Dick Harrison has collected 22 classic adventure stories by Wallace Stegner, Rudy Wiebe, Ken Mitchell, Ralph Connor, and 18 others. { 258pp, 155x230mm, January 1978; PB, £8.99, 0888640544:9780888640543 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BEYOND THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH : A Memoir of the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics [John B Dossetor] A pioneer in kidney transplantation in Canada in the late 1950s, Dr John Dossetor was faced with making many ethical decisions in his ground-breaking research and practice in nephrology so it was with much personal experience that he embraced the study of medical ethics in his later years. His medical career spans decades of change as modern technology made possible more complex treatment situations. His observations on his own distinguished career in medicine from his perspective as a bioethicist are instructive and informative. { 320pp, 150x230mm, October 2005; PB, £23.50, 0888644531:9780888644534 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BLOODY JACK [Dennis Coole; Introduction by Douglas Barbour] You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition and Douglas Barbour has written an introduction. By turns earthy and earnest, soulful and sly, Bloody Jack is a rollicking, fun-filled riot of a volume by one of Canada's favourite poets. REVIEW: "Based loosely on the infamous Manitoban outlaw John ‘Jack’ Krafchenko, Bloody Jack employs a Rabelaisian verve to explore and explode the notions of history, poetry, story, language, author and reader. As it vaguely but insistently charts western Canadian culture, it becomes a catalogue of literary parodies, of (cunning) linguistic possibilities, brimming over with poetic extravaganza....In relation to the original 1984 publication, this revised, expanded edition pushes the sense of playfulness even further: film scripts, synoptical prose pieces, and reflections on the status as a new edition (in its ‘late teens’) add more dimensions to the text-as-process....Bloody Jack (2002) - bigger, bolder, more self-reflexive - has yet increased its value, through its many expansions (more than twenty new pieces) and through Canadian poet and critic Douglas Barbour's ingenious introduction, a poetic analysis and contextualisation of Cooley's major achievement. This beautiful reissue will (again) earn the book the status of a prairie literature classic. It will cement, once and for all, the standing of Cooley - that body vernacular incarnate who has published a dozen books of poetry...as one of Canada's leading poets." -- Markus M. Muller, Germany, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.17, No. 1, 2004. { 280pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; PB, £11.99, 0888643918:9780888643919 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BOUNDARIES, & OTHER FICTIONS [Robert Wilson] In this adventurous new collection of short fiction, you will encounter Blackie and Tyler, charting their perilous journey through domestic life; Tommy Joe, the manic Texan robber baron, and Lorne, his bewildered Canadian accomplice; the puzzling inhabitants of the Swiftean QueAng-QueAng; and the strangely wise Shultz and his seafaring mates. But the book is more than just a set of unusual tales. Robert Rawdon Wilson sets out to undermine our understanding of boundaries, from the more solid ones of nationality and the body, to the more fictitious limits of selfhood and identity. Through their transgressive behaviour, Wilson's characters experience the pain and joy of cutting across the limits of our expectations and presumptions. With its Borgesian flavour and sardonic wit, "Boundaries, and Other Fictions" eludes, surprises and plays games at every turn, but never fails to entertain. { 218pp, 135x230mm, October 1999; PB, £9.99, 0888643225:9780888643223 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BREAD NOT BOMBS : A Political Agenda for Social Justice [Douglas Roche] Housing, health, and education services are desperately needed for the world's poorest people but instead, governments spend billions on war. The international community must be mobilized to provide human security, and Senator Roche asserts that this is where Canada can play a crucial role. { 162pp, 140x215mm, December 1999; PB, £11.99, 0888643578:9780888643575 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BRILLIANT STROKES : Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection [Ka Bo Tsang] Baimiao, shuanggou, gongbi, xieyi, and mogu. These words define unique Chinese painting techniques or methods, each of which is seized by the artists whose work is shown in the exhibition, "Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection", at the University of Alberta Museums in 2008. These paintings span a period of five hundred years, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Brilliant Strokes, the book, is a stunning accompaniment to the exhibition: art enthusiasts and readers intrigued by Asian art are invited to tour its luminous pages. Co-published with University of Alberta Museums. { 124pp, 255x255mm, October 2008; £17.99, 1551952165:9781551952161 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BUFFALO [John Foster, Dick Harrison & I MacLaren (eds)] Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, writers reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric times to its present and uncerta { 245pp, 150x230mm, January 1992; PB, £9.99, 0888642377:9780888642370 , University of Alberta Press } |
| BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PEACE [Tom Keating & W Andy Knight (eds)] As the world turns its attention to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq following recent conflicts in these countries, the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding takes centre stage. This collection presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies and offers fresh analytical tools which promote a critical reconceptualization of peace and conflict, while also making specific reference to peacebuilding strategies employed in recent international conflicts. Copublished with United Nations University Press. REVIEW: "...the well-versed duo (Tom Keating and W Andy Knight) assembled an impressive roster of international experts to outline a wide array of practical and theoretical bon mots about comprehensive and long-term peace building ranging from the on-the-ground experiences of David Beer (an RCMP officer who created the Canadian five year bilateral policing development assistance plan for Haiti) to an essay by former Edmonton Journal writer Satya Das, to papers penned by leading academics in the field..." Gilbert A Bouchard, Folio. "Keating and Knight's impressive array of scholars, UN and NGO employees, and soldiers share their ideas on what it actually takes to make cliches like 'building civil society' and 'healing the wounds of war' realities... This is not an easy book -- it's obviously aimed at an academic audience -- but its essays provide a glimpse into the morally ambiguous decisions that must be made by those who seek to be peacebuilders..." Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews. "...presents a timely and original overview of the field of peace studies..." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004 “[Peace building] involves disarming the warring parties, restoring order, repatriating refugees, providing training for security personnel and technical assistance, de-mining and other forms of demilitarization, monitoring elections, and reforming and strengthening government institutions. Building presents a timely and original overview of peace building theories and strategies....” Bill Twatio, esprit de corps (Canadian Military magazine), Vol. 12, No. 7, July 2005 { April 2004; PB, £23.50, 0888644140:9780888644145 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CANADIAN GUIDE TO HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMENT [Tee Guidotti & Pierre Gosselin (eds)] Canadians enjoy their beautiful surroundings, but they do have concerns about environmental hazards that may affect their health. This book offers help in understanding the issues and risks. Open The Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment and you'll quickly find clear, balanced information to help answer your questions about the following topics and more: global warming, drinking water, irradiated food, deforestation, asthma, sick-building syndrome, noise, sun tanning, cancer, PCBs. The handy 'What You Can Do' sections suggest how to tackle issues in ways that suit your particular situation. Educator and public-health physician Tee L Guidotti -- with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and a host of expert contributors -- walks you through the many issues linking the environment and your health. Use the Guide as a reference to specific topics, a readable overview of environmental health concerns, or a learning tool for students, parents, and families. The Guide includes: a quick-access glossary; a bibliography of helpful publications, plus dozens of references to books, agencies, and internet sites you can explore for further information; a series of quizzes and games to check your environmental knowledge; and an index for easy reference. The Canadian Guide to Health and the Environment will help you make decisions that are right for you and your family -- and good for our environment. { 322pp, 140x205mm, September 1999; PB, £11.99, 0888642938:9780888642936 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CANADIAN DICTIONARY OF ASL [Carole Sue Bailey & Kathy Dolby (eds)] Developed in conjunction with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, this comprehensive new dictionary of American Sign Language (ASL) has over 8700 signs, many unique to Canada. Material for this extensive work has been drawn from many sources and includes input gathered from members of Canada's Deaf community over the past twenty years. The Canadian Dictionary of ASL offers clear illustrations and sign descriptions alongside English definitions, making it a valuable reference for Deaf and hearing users alike. Authoritative and up-to-date, 'The Canadian Dictionary of ASL' will prove to be the standard reference for years to come. { 838pp, 220x285mm, June 2002; HB, £44.50, 0888643004:9780888643001 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CANADIAN NEWSPAPER OWNERSHIP IN AN ERA OF CONVERGENCE : Rediscovering Social Responsibility [Walter C Soderlund & Kai Hildebrandt (eds)] Canadian Newspaper Ownership in an Era of Convergence investigates the current state of Canada's newspaper industry in light of recent developments -- increasing concentration of ownership, multi-media convergence, and controversy over the actions of proprietors. Case studies examine how Conrad Black's acquisition of newspapers in the mid-1990s, bringing his total ownership to over half of the country's dailies, followed by the subsequent purchase of the most important of these by CanWest Global, has actually influenced the content of newspapers. Canadian Newspaper Ownership revisits 'social responsibility' in the context of the changed media landscape as a means of prescribing how newspapers owners and employees might conduct themselves in the public interest. REVIEW: "...a scholarly title with some crossover potential. The collection of essays details the increasing concentration of ownership in the Canadian media, including Conrad Black's acquisition orgy of the 1990s." -- Quill & Quire, January 2005 “Editors Walter C. Soderlund and Kai Hildebrandt, veteran media academics at Ontario's University of Windsor, walk us through frightening media convergence theory and painstakingly deconstruct Conrad Black's reign at the height of his Canadian media dynasty, when he amassed the largest news company in Canadian history. We tag along as they analyse the Asper family empire and hold up CanWest's latest national editorial policy as the best evidence of what can happen when newspaper owners decide to use their clout to shape public debate....the authors make an articulate and viable case for an ideal media ownership.” Karen Kleiss, The Edmonton Journal, July 17, 2005 { 194pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £20.99, 0888644396:9780888644398 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CHALLENGING TERRITORY : The Writing of Margaret Laurence [Christian Riege (ed)] How can we approach Margaret Laurence's writing in a post-colonial and post-modern age? This is a collection of essays that examine positionality across the range of Laurence's writing, from her early journalism through the fiction to the late non-fiction. { 260pp, 155x230mm, May 1997; PB, £14.99, 088864289X:9780888642899 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CHILD POVERTY & THE CANADIAN WELFARE STATE : From Entitlement to Charity [Shereen Ismael] Child hunger and homelessness -- once considered either sorrowful reflections of an economically impoverished society or shameful reflections of a morally impoverished state -- have become commonplace. The increasing scope of child poverty in Canada has been high on the national agenda since at least 1989 when Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party, proposed a resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate child poverty by 2000. The resolution passed unanimously and sparked the formation of Campaign 2000, a broad national co-alition of non-governmental agencies committed to monitoring the government’s progress toward that goal. More than a decade later, the September 2001 issue of Maclean’s remarked: "Here we are in 2001... and child poverty in Canada is worse, not better." This book represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalise the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada. { 128pp, 155x230mm, July 2006; PB, £20.99, 0888644612:9780888644619 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CKUA : Radio Worth Fighting For [Marylu Walters] This comprehensive history of Canada's oldest public radio station records the human stories and the struggle to survive through turbulent times. Founded as a groundbreaking experiment by the University of Alberta's Department of Extension, CKUA is now a self-sufficient, listener-supported station that reaches a global audience via the Internet. From heady first years, it survived years of benign neglect under the Alberta government, culminating in a shut-down in 1997. The station has since undergone a dramatic revival and is now flourishing through the efforts of thousands of dedicated listeners. Marylu Walters has drawn together archival sources and original interviews to create a detailed portrait of the station. REVIEW: "Combining rigorous research and smooth prose." -- Alberta Views, Nov/Dec 2003. { 389pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £17.99, 0888643950:9780888643957 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CLEAR ANSWERS : The Economics & Politics of For-Profit Medicine [Kevin Taft & Gillian Steward] The Government of Alberta under Ralph Klein has asked a reasonable question: can health care be better provided partly as a private, for-profit product rather than as a not-for-profit public service? But -- despite the claims of advocates for market-driven medicine -- private hospitals are neither cheaper nor more efficient than public ones. Clear Answers summarises the huge body of evidence showing that they are more expensive and less efficient. { 124pp, 115x190mm, March 2000; PB, £8.99, 1552200833:9781552200834 , University of Alberta Press } |
| COLLECTED WRITINGS OF LOUIS RIEL (LES ECRITS COMPLET DE LOUIS RIEL) [George Stanley, Raymond Huel, Gilles Martel, Thomas Flanagan & Glenn Campbell (eds)] This critical, definitive edition is composed of five annotated volumes: three of letters, diaries, declarations, and other prose writings, ordered chronologically; one of poetry; and a reference volume. Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Riel and his influence on the history of Western Canada. { January 1985; HB, £147.50, 0888640919:9780888640918 , University of Alberta Press } |
| COMPLETED FIELD NOTES : The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch [Robert Kroetsch] This book brings together twenty of Kroetsch's long poems, spanning some of 15 years of creative activity. Remarkably versatile in both form and content, these extended meditations bear witness to Kroetsch's modernist inheritance and his well-known commitment to post-modern jouissance. Whether it be in an evocation of an Australian beach or in an account of the stone hammer used by the poet's father, we find again and again the delight, elusiveness and mastery of everyday language that have become trademarks of the author's oeuvre. { 250pp, 155x230mm, November 2000; PB, £11.99, 0888643500:9780888643506 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CONTESTED CLASSROOMS : Education, Globalization, & Democracy in Alberta [Trevor Harrison & Jerrold Kachur (eds)] Education has become a battlefield, the classroom the arena where the contest is fought. The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike, the federal government's Millennium Scholarship, and a wave of protests across the country are among the signals that the war is heating up. Alberta stands as a Canadian model of radical education reform, propelled by economic necessity. But is all reform necessarily right or good? -- and who decides? A range of commentators -- teachers, scholars, parents, and others -- discuss the conflict in Alberta's schools. { 191pp, 150x215mm, March 1999; PB, £11.99, 0888643152:9780888643155 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CONTINUATIONS [Douglas Barbour & Sheila E Murphy] Across great distances and a panorama shaped by words, poets Douglas Barbour and Sheila Murphy began writing in collaboration. Tapped to technology's dance across paper, with thoughts like bright colours coursing across screens, Continuations emerged as the product of a new creator, a 'third individual', who writes differently from either poet. Words shapeshifted and poets transformed, 'Continuations' is an intriguing addition to the growing field of collaborative poetry in North American literature. { 106pp, 135x230mm, March 2006; PB, £11.99, 0888644639:9780888644633 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CROATIA : Travels in Undiscovered Country [Tony Fabijancic] In his travels through Croatia, Tony Fabijancic saw a world of peasants, shepherds and fishermen irrevocably giving way to the new reality of a modern European state. With a deft and sure touch, he records moments that capture the lingering spirit of the old world even as the former fabric of this place is unravelling forever. The author's profound familiarity with the 'extraordinary regionality' of Croatia leads to memorable images of the country, and to sketches and unhurried ruminations on its people, its landscapes, kitchens, cities, and coastlines. REVIEW: "Join Tony Fabijancic as he returns to his homeland exploring the quiet hidden corners and the complex history of this beautiful place..." -- Wanderlust, August 2003. { February 2003; PB, £17.99, 0888643977:9780888643971 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CTV : The Network That Means Business [Michael Nolan] From its creation as an "Advertiser's network" by Spencer Caldwell in 1961, CTV has been first and foremost a business appealing to the widest audience with popular programming. Michael Nolan's history of how Canada's first private television network survived is a fascinating story of boardroom battles; undercapitalisation; constant criticism from the broadcast regulators, the BBG and CRTC; corporate consolidation; and media convergence. The personalities of early station owners -- John Bassett, Ray Peters, the Moffat family, Ernest Bushnell, and G R A Rice -- emerge in first-hand accounts of the turbulent years of the co-operative. CTV presidents Gordon Keeble, Murray Chercover, John Cassaday, Ivan Fecan and Trina McQueen give their insights into the events and personalities that shaped the network. Nolan follows Johnny Esaw's major successes in sports broadcasting and chronicles CTV's news division triumphs and tribulations, focussing on popular national news anchors Harvey Kirck and Lloyd Robertson and the long-lived W5. CTV's popular appeal to viewers contrasts sharply with the CBC's cultural mandate. The successes and failures of CTV over its 40-year history tell the story of an uniquely Canadian business. { 405pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £20.99, 0888643845:9780888643841 , University of Alberta Press } |
| CULTURING WILDERNESS IN JASPER NATIONAL PARK : Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed [I S MacLaren (ed); Foreword by the Rt Hon Jean Chretien] Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Native tribes once lived, fur traders toiled, and Métis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries worth of human history, tracing the evolution of trading routes into the Rockies' largest park. Serious history enthusiasts and those with an interest in Canada's national parks will find a sense of connection in this long-overdue study of Jasper. { 356pp, 190x255mm, December 2007; PB, £26.50, 0888644833:9780888644831 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DAMSELFLIES OF ALBERTA : Flying Neon Toothpicks in the Grass [John Acorn] With iridescent blues and greens, damselflies are some of the most beautiful flying insects as well as the most primitive. As members of the insect order Odonata they are related to Dragonflies but are classified in a separate suborder. These aquatic insects are a delight to the eye and a fascinating creature of study. In this book, naturalist John Acorn describes the 22 species native to the province. Exhaustively researched, yet written in an accessible style, the author's enthusiasm for these flying neon toothpicks is compelling. More than a field guide, this is a passionate investigation into one of nature's winged marvels of the wetlands. REVIEW: "This is an intensely personal book, written by someone who observes and appreciates all aspects of nature and loves to educate anyone who will pay attention. The book treats the 22 species of zygopterans in Alberta in great detail and is without question a scholarly treatise. But it's worth having a copy just because it's a good read -- How many books have you seen in which some of the species are introduced by limericks? Enough said..." -- Dennis Paulson, University of Puget Sound, Faculty of Biology/Slater Museum of Natural History. Damselflies of Alberta catalogue copy with accompanying full-colour cover image featured in Odonatological Abstract Service newsletter published by International Dragonfly Fund organization. (Distributed to their members and to World Dragonfly Association members). August 2005 { 168pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £17.99, 0888644191:9780888644190 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DANCE OF THE SEXES : Art & Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro [Beverly J Rasporich] This book reveals that Alice Munro's gender very much colours and influences her fiction in dramatic ways, expressing itself in what feminist theorists have identified as 'writing the body'. Beverly Rasporich examines Munro as folk artist, ironist, and regionalist in relation to her femaleness and feminism. { 223pp, 155x230mm, January 1990; PB, £4.99, 0888642083:9780888642080 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DEEP ALBERTA : Fossil Facts & Dinosaur Digs [John Acorn] Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There's more to the story of "deep Alberta" than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all of their favourite beasts here as well-from Edmontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus Rex, and everything in-between. Then there are the surprises, such as the world's oldest pike, the discovery of a venomous mammal, and the fossils found in such unlikely places as Edmonton and Calgary. Prepared with the collaboration of palaeontologists around Alberta, and the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, this is a book that is long overdue, and that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf. { 186pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £15.99, 0888644817:9780888644817 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DRESSED TO RULE : 18th Century Court Attire in the Mactaggart Art Collection [John E Vollmer] Art takes on many forms. In this selection of Asian court attire, dating from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the phrase "you are what you wear" resonates. Vollmer journeys back to the thirteenth-century Chinese Empire, where ancestors of the ruling Manchu conquerors dressed fittingly. These exquisite costumes remind us that although royalty once set fashion standards the way that celebrities do today, these garments also promoted distinct national and political messages to help keep a ruling minority in power for nearly three centuries. Dressed to Rule is a guide to the exhibit, of the same name, appearing at the University of Alberta in 2007. { 60pp, 280x250mm, October 2007; PB, £17.99, 1551952149:9781551952147 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DRIVEN TO KILL : Vehicles as Weapons [J Peter Rothe] The charge: first-degree murder. The murder weapon: a 1987 Ford Escort. A car as a murder weapon? In DRIVEN TO KILL, Rothe unflinchingly examines the use of vehicles in cases of assault, abduction, rape, gang warfare, terrorism, suicide, and murder. What separates an everyday driver from a motorised menace? Read and find out. Yes, Rothe offers a trove of unprecedented research for sociologists, criminologists, policy makers, police, as well as public health, injury prevention, and traffic safety professionals, but his accessible style speaks to our fascination with car culture and true crime stories. { 336pp, 155x230mm, November 2008; PB, £20.99, 0888644876:9780888644879 , University of Alberta Press } |
| DRIVING LESSONS : Exploring Systems That Make Traffic Safer [J Rothe (ed)] Despite our best efforts, traffic injuries and fatalities continue to increase. Traditional solutions do not seem to fix the problem; perhaps we need to approach these problems in a new way. This collection attempts to expand thinking about traffic safety across a range of disciplines and seeks to open up the discussion. { 343pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £20.99, 0888643705:9780888643704 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ECHOES IN THE HALLS : An Unofficial History of the University of Alberta [Scott Rollans] From the research labs at the University to remote lakes in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Echoes in the Halls tells us the stories about the antics, the hijinks and the adventures of professors at the University of Alberta. A must-read for history buffs and University Alumni. { 332pp, 155x230mm, November 1999; PB, £17.99, 1552200744:9781552200742 , University of Alberta Press } |
| EDMONTON : Stories from the River City [Tony Cashman] From the edge of the frontier to the centre of the oil boom, Edmonton has been a vibrant city for nearly a century. Former broadcaster Tony Cashman presents 40 vignettes of life in a simpler era: the people and places that made Edmonton what it is today. { 174pp, 155x230mm, July 2002; PB, £14.99, 0888643926:9780888643926 , University of Alberta Press } |
| EDMONTON IN OUR OWN WORDS [Linda Goyette & Carolina Jakeway Roemmich] Imagine a conversation between Edmonton’s past inhabitants and its living citizens. What would we tell the rest of the world about our place on the map? What stories would we tell with tears in our eyes, or laughter, or pride? The official publication of the City of Edmonton’s Centennial, 'Edmonton In Our Own Words' includes many unfamiliar photographs from private collections, historic maps and a timeline of Edmonton’s history. As the city celebrates its past and future, readers will enjoy the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing and interrupting one another in a city’s evolving conversation with itself. Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped Edmonton’s collective memoir, through the written record, the spoken stories and the vast silences. All of the people who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. They have plenty to tell us. REVIEW: "...an unblinking look at our shared past, and the portrait presented by Goyette and Roemmich is a warts-and-all affair, giving voice to many people whose histories have too often been overlooke... Goyette is an engaging writer and a grand storyteller..." -- Marc Horton, The Edmonton Journal. "... richly detailed, frankly informative, sweeping in scope and ambitious... a thoroughly absorbing work, the kind one opens for a quick look, emerging hours later with a sense of having time-travelled..." -- Canadian Geographic, January/February 2005. "...Edmonton's history is told in the words of the people who have called this city home." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004. "...history blockbuster. More than two years in the making... It chronicles a century of native, cultural, industrial, and social history, with generous space devoted to letters and anecdotes from Edmontonians present and deceased..." -- Lisa Gregoire, Quill & Quire Magazine, November 2005. { 463pp, 180x260mm, April 2005; PB, £23.50, 0888644493:9780888644497 / HB, £29.50, 0888644280:9780888644282 , University of Alberta Press } |
| EDMONTON IN OUR OWN WORDS [Linda Goyette & Carolina Jakeway Roemmich] Imagine a conversation between Edmonton’s past inhabitants and its living citizens. What would we tell the rest of the world about our place on the map? What stories would we tell with tears in our eyes, or laughter, or pride? The official publication of the City of Edmonton’s Centennial, 'Edmonton In Our Own Words' includes many unfamiliar photographs from private collections, historic maps and a timeline of Edmonton’s history. As the city celebrates its past and future, readers will enjoy the personal stories of eyewitnesses and descendants explaining, arguing, crying, scolding, laughing and interrupting one another in a city’s evolving conversation with itself. Linda Goyette and Carolina Roemmich have tapped Edmonton’s collective memoir, through the written record, the spoken stories and the vast silences. All of the people who ever lived at this bend in the North Saskatchewan took part in creating the city we know as Edmonton. They have plenty to tell us. REVIEW: "...an unblinking look at our shared past, and the portrait presented by Goyette and Roemmich is a warts-and-all affair, giving voice to many people whose histories have too often been overlooke...Goyette is an engaging writer and a grand storyteller." -- Marc Horton, The Edmonton Journal. "Edmonton In Our Own Words is everything a centennial history of the city should be: richly detailed, frankly informative, sweeping in scope and ambitious. But it is much more. It is a thoroughly absorbing work, the kind one opens for a quick look, emerging hours later with a sense of having time-travelled." -- Canadian Geographic, January/February 2005. "Through traditional aboriginal stories about the earliest travellers along the North Saskatchewan River; oral history, diaries, letters, and archival records of nineteenth century inhabitants; and the recollections of living citizens, Edmonton's history is told in the words of the people who have called this city home." -- Prairie Books NOW, fall/winter 2004 { 463pp, 180x260mm, October 2004; HB, £29.50, 0888644280:9780888644282 , University of Alberta Press } |
| EDMONTON'S URBAN VILLAGES : The Community League Movement [Ron Kuban] How did a collection of neighbourhood volunteer organisations come to influence the development of a major Canadian city? Few other North American cities have embraced the community league movement with the vigour of Edmonton. For 87 years, tens of thousands of volunteers from the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) have often acted as a counterweight to large private and institutional interests, shaping municipal development by providing a voice and a training ground for grassroots civic participation. In its wake, the EFCL has left a host of sports, cultural and civic initiatives for the improvement of Edmonton, and an important lesson on how to create community. REVIEW: “Ron Kuban, a longtime community activist has documented the history of our community leagues….If you have ever worked a bingo for your community, cheered your kids on the soccer field or went to city council with your neighbours to fight a developer, you might want to take a look at this book....Kuban describes the growth of the movement, which was borrowed from the city club concept started in Rochester, N.Y., to provide a forum for citizens and be a watchdog over local issues....Kuban's book brings to life some of the volunteer characters who have kept the community ideals alive.” Mike Sadava, The Edmonton Journal, July 23, 2005 Edmonton's Urban Villages is #6 on Edmonton Top 10 Best-Seller List for Non-Fiction { 248pp, 155x230mm, June 2005; PB, £14.99, 0888644388:9780888644381 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ELEGY [E D Blodgett; Photographs by Yukiko Onley] A lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of grief. Once I saw your breath suspended in the air then I understood how fire could be white when I exhaled my breath followed yours into the sky that holds us both. REVIEW: "Rich, profound, engaging, and written with an emotional depth rarely seen in much of contemporary poetry. There is a meditative virtuosity throughout this work, original and perceptive, alive with intelligence and compassion." -- Don Domanski. { 84pp, 180x175mm, August 2005; PB, £14.99, 0888644507:9780888644503 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ETHICS FOR THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN CANADA [Derek Truscott & Kenneth Crook] In order to be an ethical psychologist, one needs first an awareness of situations and circumstances in which ethical reasoning is required, secondly ethical, professional and legal knowledge, and finally the skills to arrive at an ethically justifiable decision. This book is intended for students in professional psychology programmes in Canada, for professional psychologists seeking to extenf their knowledge about responsible practice, psychologists preparing to practice in Canada, and for those in training either in practicum or internship settings. The authors examine ethical issues in accordance with the guidelines in the 'Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists'. REVIEW: "A serious, informed, in-depth book that is an absolute 'must-read' for psychologists in Canada; the depths of its plain-terms information make it a valuable contribution to reference shelves for psychology students and professionals of any nation." -- Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch, November issue. "It brings a strong sense of the values expressed by the Canadian psychological community. it is a substantial resource." -- Wendy Austin, PhD, RN (University of Alberta), Health Ethics Forum, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2004) { 202pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £29.50, 0888644221:9780888644220 , University of Alberta Press } |
| F P GROVE IN EUROPE & CANADA : Translated Lives [Klaus Martens] Originally published as 'Felix Paul Greves Karriere: Frederick Philip Grove in Deutschland', this volume reveals the previously unknown life of Canadian author F P Grove. Prior to his arrival in Canada, Grove was a widely known -- and somewhat outrageous -- editor, writer, translator, and literary personality in Europe. In his new land, however, he completely remade himself, extinguishing all traces of his prior life. An illuminating biography of a significant Canadian author. { 351pp, 155x230mm, July 2002; PB, £20.99, 0888643640:9780888643643 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FEASTING ON MISFORTUNE : Journeys of the Human Spirit in Alberta's Past [David Jones] The fledgling province of Alberta was neck-deep in trouble. The settlement of the Peace River country reached dangerously too far, the southeastern dry belt disintegrated in drought, colliers agonised over life and limb, and men of the cloth were stretched to the breaking point. The themes of adversity and victories of the spirit draw together the stories of ordinary people in early Alberta. { 305pp, 155x230mm, February 1998; PB, £17.99, 0888643012:9780888643018 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FISHES OF ALBERTA [Joseph Nelson & Martin Paetz] This completely revised edition includes up-to-date information on distribution, new species and biology of the 59 species of fish found in Alberta. Information on identification, distribution, biology, taxonomic history, and, where appropriate, angling is included. Fishes of Alberta will be useful to anyone interested in Alberta's fishes, from anglers to scientists, as well as students of biology. { 438pp, 155x230mm, January 1992; PB, £14.99, 0888642369:9780888642363 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FLORA OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC : Volume 2: Cyperaceae-Orchidaceae -- A Critical Review of the Vascular Plants Occurring in the Arctic Region of the Former Soviet Union [A I Tolmachev & J G Packer (eds)] Written by the botanists of the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, the "Flora of the Russian Arctic" series is an essential part of every botanical library. { 234pp, 205x255mm, December 1996; HB, £73.99, 0888642709:9780888642707 / HB, £38.50, 0888642695:9780888642691 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FLORA OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC : Volume 1: Polypodiaceae-Gramineae -- A Critical Review of the Vascular Plants Occurring in the Arctic Region of the Former Soviet Union [A I Tolurachen] Written by the botanists of the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, the "Flora of the Russian Arctic" series is an essential part of every botanical library. REVIEW: "The Flora contains a wealth of information of interest to western botanists but this has remained largely untapped on account of language difficulties. It was, therefore, a bold and imaginative initiative on the part of The University of Alberta Press to publish in an English edition in six volumes under the editorship of Professor J. G. Packer." G. Halliday, Book Reviews { 330pp, 205x255mm, January 1995; HB, £38.50, 0888642695:9780888642691 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FOLK FURNITURE OF CANADA'S DOUKHOBORS, HUTTERITES, MENNONITES & UKRAINIANS [John Fleming & Michael Rowan] With over 100 colour photographs, Folk Furniture of Canada’s Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians offers a stunning visual record of the culture and values of these four ethno-cultural groups. Authors John Fleming and Michael Rowan take an interpretative approach to the importance of folk furniture and its intimate ties to people's values and beliefs. Photographer James Chambers beautifully captures both representative and exceptional artefacts, from large furniture items such as storage chests, benches, cradles, and tables, to small kitchen items including spoons, breadboxes, and cookie cutters. REVIEW: "[Folk Furniture] contains more than 100 beautiful photos of the four immigrant groups' furniture, showing the skill and variety in the pieces they made. The book highlights the four groups' histories as people subject to religious persecution or severe economic hardship who made a new life in Canada's West, and shows how their experience was reflected in their craftmanship." -- Canadian Home Workshop Magazine, Winter issue. "The authors do a credible job assessing and describing the handiwork of untold Canadian craftsmen. Equally impressive are James Chambers' photographs, which impart a fine-art feel to this book in the way they make, say, a simple late-19th century tripod table itself look like a work of art." -- The Globe and Mail. "Just as architecture catalogues culture, furniture tells us much about a society. Purely functional in its most basic form, tables, beds and even coat hangers are given ornamental treatment to add depth and meaning to the world we live in...The book tackles each group separately and thoroughly." -- University of Alberta folio. "A fan of the unique esthetics of western folk furniture - simple lines, quirky decorative touches, bright colours, often in daring combinations - Rowan is also a proponent of the objects as repositories of cultural and historic meaning worthy of more expansive museum collections and academic study...Aside from the historic value of these pieces, Rowan says western folk furniture is valued by many fine artists for its intrinsic esthetic qualities." -- Gilbert Bouchard, The Edmonton Journal. "Many of the pieces represented were saved or salvaged from workshops or barns by the efforts of pickers and museum personnel traveling Canada's western provinces in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as by dealers and collectors who recognized the cultural value of various pieces...[E]specially commended to the attention of folk art collectors, as well as students of Canadian history, art, and culture." -- Reviewer's & Internet Bookwatch(es), The Midwest Book Review, December 2004. "In the end, there is nothing effete or contrived about any of this furniture. It is as honest, straightforward and workmanlike as the women and men who built it. It is also really quite stunning." -- Marc Horton, The Edmonton Journal. "Folk Furniture has several strengths. It introduces the reader to early Canadian artifacts and explains their cultural significance. More importantly it gives a clear face to each distinct immigrant group...for history buffs, antique hunters and anyone interested in furniture, this book delivers the goods." -- Anna Borowiecki, St. Albert Gazette. "Through...the sensitive, artistic attention given to the photographs, we are able to see the cultural differences as expressed through their outward expression of an inward belief....Descendants and folk art enthusiasts will find this book a treasure." -- Barbara Sutton-Smith, Antique & Collectibles Showcase Magazine, March/April 2005. “[T]he text and the pictures here are of a piece, and the artlessness and simplicity of the tools of daily living are presented with a harsh wonder that is astonishing. Simple decoration includes colors that are understated and a modesty that bespeaks a world of piety....As we leaf through this, is it possible that there can be a luxury in such simplicity? If so, it is reflected in this delicious volume.” Louis Armour, RALPH Magazine (http://ralphmag.org/DL/folk-arts.html), July 7, 2005 { 155pp, 230x310mm, September 2004; HB, £35.50, 0888644183:9780888644183 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FORGING ALBERTA'S CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK [Richard Connors & John Law (eds)] This Book analyses the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments. { 538pp, 150x230mm, November 2005; HB, £38.50, 0888644574:9780888644572 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FORGING ALBERTA'S CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK [Richard Connors & John Law (eds)] Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework explores the nature and development of Alberta's constitution by examining a number of celebrated cases and themes that have shaped and altered legal, social, economic, political, and cultural rights and responsibilities within Alberta and Canada. Contributors from across Canada include historians, lawyers, political scientists, and politicians writing on themes that illustrate how Alberta's constitution is the product of decades, even centuries, of contest, debate, division, and negotiation. { 450pp, 150x230mm, December 2005; PB, £29.50, 0888644582:9780888644589 / HB, £38.50, 0888644574:9780888644572 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FRESHWATER FISHES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA [J D McPhail] The threat of deteriorating habitats and a loss of biodiversity makes this reference work on the freshwater fishes of British Columbia more necessary than ever before. Eighty-one comprehensive species accounts aid accurate identification and consist of an illustration, the scientific and common names of the fish, its distinguishing characteristics, taxonomic comments, geographic distribution, a life-history summary, a habitat-use summary, and conservation comments. The book is a critical resource for biologists, naturalists, management and conservation officers, anglers, and members of the public who are concerned about our natural heritage. { 620pp, 180x255mm, October 2007; HB, £52.99, 0888644671:9780888644671 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FROM RUPERT'S LAND TO CANADA [Theodore Binnema et al (eds)] The editors spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and playing with ideas that re-imagined the Canadian West. In this book, a tribute to John's work, his friends and colleagues further explore themes related to 'Native History and the Fur Trade', 'Metis History' and the 'Imagined West'. { 288pp, 155x230mm, May 2001; PB, £20.99, 0888643632:9780888643636 , University of Alberta Press } |
| FUR TRADE LETTERS OF WILLIE TRAILL : 1864-1894 [K Douglas Munro (ed)] This is a selection of letters written by William Traill to his mother, sisters, nieces, and nephew while he was in the service of the HBC. The letters are fascinating to read and extremely important in describing a way of life that we know relatively little about, as very few records to date describe career, courtship, marriage, household work, births, children, deaths, and generational change. This collection of letters is both interesting and poignant: read on any level they are truly engrossing. He found employment with the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become the Canadian West. His letters home are a rich and detailed portrait of domestic life in the fur trade of the Northwest between 1864 and 1893. At turns gritty then deeply touching but always fascinating and informative, the Willie Traill letters throw open a window on the joys and heart-breaking challenges of family life in the service of the fur trade. { 339pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; PB, £20.99, 0888644604:9780888644602 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GABRIEL DUMONT IN PARIS [Jordan Zinovich] The troubles of 1885 are a topic of enduring fascination. This is a fictional retelling of the events leading up to the Northwest Rebellion, focussing on the thoughts and actions of Metis leader Gabriel Dumont. Jordan Zinovich reconstructs the man from a multiplicity of voices, leaving us to draw our own understanding of Riel's charismatic lieutenant. { 180pp, 130x230mm, August 1999; PB, £9.99, 0888643217:9780888643216 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GERMANY : Phoenix in Trouble? [Matthias Zimmer (ed)] As Germany enters the 21st century, it faces a variety of political, economic and social problems that put the recently united country to the test. Experiencing a dual crisis, Germany's challenge is to manage both the transformation to a post industrial society and the effects of unification. International scholars address the different aspects of the predicaments Germany finds itself in, and reflect concerns and questions that have been raised about the future of the German model in the broadest sense. { 280pp, 155x230mm, May 1997; PB, £17.99, 0888643055:9780888643056 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GIANT DESPAIR MEETS HOPEFUL : Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction [Martha Westwater] Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises. { 190pp, 155x230mm, April 2000; PB, £17.99, 0888643209:9780888643209 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GREAT CANADIAN FILM DIRECTORS [George Melnyk (ed)] Great Canadian Film Directors is the first major study that reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Canada’s most dynamic film directors. The 19 essays in this collection focus on each filmmaker’s ability to create a vision that both reveals and redefines our national cultures. Together, these essays, by established and emerging scholars, highlight the diversity, imaginative power, and talent of Canadian filmmakers. This collection’s value is in its contemporary analysis of major figures as well as critical discussions of the work of women directors and young filmmakers. Filmographies and selected bibliographies for each director provide film students and the movie-going public with an unrivalled study of a cinema that now garners world attention. { 468pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; PB, £20.99, 0888644795:9780888644794 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GIFTED TO LEARN [Gloria Mehlmann] In 1960s Regina, when racial discrimination often went unchallenged, and the education system needed visionary reform, Gloria Mehlmann struggled to embrace her Cree/Saulteaux identity and sustain her passion for learning and teaching. Critical but not cynical, Mehlmann's touching stories reveal the experiences and students that taught her to become one of Saskatchewan's guiding voices for education reform. While devotees of memoir will be transported by Mehlmann's humane storytelling, specialists in Native Studies, Education, Women's Studies, and Autobiography are also invited to explore the clear, strong prose within GIFTED TO LEARN. { 344pp, 155x230mm, August 2008; PB, £14.99, 0888644981:9780888644985 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GOTHIC CANADA : Reading the Spectre of a National Literature [Justin D Edwards] Canadians have always been obsessed with the idea of their own identities. Stories that tell us who we are provide a reassuring sense of identity for the individual and the nation. Hockey. Maple Leaves. Beavers. But collective stories tend to be haunted by a fear that a shared narrative might be nothing more than an elaborate artifice. This fear has long been a source of gothic inspiration for Canadian writers. A haunted Canadian self returns again and again. Polite. Friendly. Not American. With examples of gothic discourse from Canadian fiction, autobiography, film, poetry, and drama, Justin Edwards analyses the ghost at the heart of the nation. A major contribution to cultural and literary studies, Gothic Canada unearths two centuries of Canadian gothic writings to reveal uncanny traditions of trauma, repression, and monstrosity. REVIEW: "Canadians have been searching for and discussing cultural identity since Confederation. According to Justin Edwards, our stories and literature might be showing us our greatest fear: perhaps we don't have one. In Gothic Canada, Edwards explores both the search for identity and the haunting spectral elements in Canadian literature. Analyzing literature from the nineteenth century through to the modern fiction of Atwood and Ondaatje, Edwards finds a common thread. ‘The thing that Gothic Canadian texts have in common is the question ‘who are we?’ and a source of fear and anxiety is generated from not being able to answer this question,’ says Edwards." -- Lynne Stefanchuk, Prairie Books NOW. “This is another volume in the praiseworthy cuRRents Canadian literature series. Edwards explores the connections between the formation of identity and gothic, through analysis of discourses in Canadian culture.” Anne Burke, Prairie Journal Trust, July 22, 2005 { 194pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £20.99, 0888644418:9780888644411 , University of Alberta Press } |
| GREEN HEART OF THE TREE : Essays & Notes on a Time in Africa [A S Woudstra] Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings explore topics as diverse as volcanic eruptions and wild trees, African art and ritual, life in Rwanda, and turtle eggs in warm sand. { 82pp, 135x230mm, April 2007; PB, £14.99, 0888644760:9780888644763 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HAIKU IN PAPIAMENTU [Elis Juliana] Curaçao writer, sculptor and artist Elis Juliana's poetry blends the intrinsic rhythmic and tonal aspects of the Papiamentu language as he depicts the Afro-Caribbean lifestyles of his people with the traditional form of Japanese haiku. Juliana reveals the vitality of his native language Papiamentu, spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, with short and swift flashes of intense impressions and potent ideas in his writing. With humour he typifies the character and individuality of the Antillean. The volume will be of interest to scholars of Creole languages, readers interested in the Caribbean literary/socio-cultural scene, and students of translation and poetry. REVIEW: "A well-respected visual artist, Juliana knows how to evoke images within the limits of the poems' structural constraints and aims for gentle observations, spinning a beautifully consistent collection brimming with pithy gems." Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal. "...a rare and commendable little poetry collection...by the Curacao poet Elis Juliana, translated by Helene Garrett." -- George Fetherling, The New Brunswick Reader. "...a welcome and successful contribution to the perpetually growing ‘world carpet of literature’. -- Eva Martha Eckkrammer (University ofSalzburg, Austria), The Eclectic Muse: A Poetry Journal, Vol. 10, Christmas 2004. “...University of Alberta Press should be commended for its bilingual edition of Haiku in Papiamentu by Curacao-born Elis Juliana, well known for his ethnographic work on local folklore. As doctoral candidate Helene Garrett explains in her translator's introduction, Papiamentu is a Dutch-based creole spoken in the Netherlands Antilles that has been largely depreciated by its speakers. Juliana has published over a dozen collections of poems and short stories in Papiamentu, thus contributing to the recent revival of the islands' vernacular and cultural identity. As he states in his introduction to the volume, by choosing haiku, he hoped at once to acquaint his readers with this Japanese form of poetry and to demonstrate the vitality, richness, and rigour of Papiamentu.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 1, Winter 2004/5 { 80pp, 160x160mm, September 2003; PB, £11.99, 0888644108:9780888644107 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HARD PASSAGE : A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada [Arthur Kroeger] In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, "Hard Passage" speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West. { 269pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; PB, £20.99, 0888644736:9780888644732 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HEALING WATERS : The Pilgrimage to Lac Ste. Anne [Steve Simon] For over 100 summers and time unknown before, native people have journeyed great distances to gather at a peaceful lake in north-central Alberta. It has been said the waters of Lac Ste Anne have miraculous healing powers. Documentary photographer Steve Simon's compelling and evocative photographs combine with quotes from the people gathered at the lake to tell a powerful story of faith and hope. { 80pp, 280x215mm, January 1995; PB, £14.99, 0888642776:9780888642776 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HEALTH CARE REFORM & THE LAW IN CANADA : Meeting the Challenge [Timothy Caulfield & Barbara von Tigerstrom (eds)] Sweeping changes are being proposed as Canadians examine their health care system. But what are the legal implications of health care reform? In this timely collection, lawyers and legal scholars discuss a variety of topics in health care reform, including regulation of private care, interpretation of the Canada Health Act, and the constitutional implications of proposed reforms. Barbara von Tigerstrom is currently studying at the University of Cambridge in England. Timothy Caulfield lives in Edmonton, where he teaches at the University of Alberta. REVIEW: "The papers in this volume are provocative because they tackle questions central to all advanced health care systems, even as the primary focus of the volume is on legal concerns related to policy reforms in the Canadian health care system. How can a balance be struck by policymakers juggling resource limitations, technological breakthroughs, traditional legal obligations, the professional sovereignty of physicians, the demands of patients and the globalization of national economies? A careful reading of these pieces will advance our ability to prepare to strike that balance." -- Craig Ramsay, American Review of Canadian Studies { 288pp, 155x230mm, January 2002; PB, £23.50, 0888643667:9780888643667 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HEAVY BURDENS ON SMALL SHOULDERS : The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies [Sandra Rollings-Magnusson] The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents -- working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children learned the domestic and manual labour skills needed for life on a Prairie family farm. Rollings-Magnusson uses historic research, photographs, and personal anecdotes to describe the kinds of work performed by children and how each task fit into the family economy. This book is a vital contribution to Western Canadian History as well as family and gender studies. { 232pp, 155x230mm, March 2009; PB, £20.99, 0888645090:9780888645098 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HIDING THE AUDIENCE : Viewing Arts & Arts Institutions on the Prairies [Frances Kaye] This book examines how the development of Canadian prairie arts institutions in the context of an implicitly Euro- or Anglo-Canadian audience clashed with the creation of regional arts that needed to acknowledge a Native Canadian presence to flourish. It looks in detail at the regional versus international strains in the history of the Banff Centre, at the development of the Glenbow Museum and the controversy over the 'Spirit Sings' exhibition, at the two decades of contention regarding statues of Louis Riel in Regina and Winnipeg, and at the contrasts in audience participation in two of 25th Street Theatre's productions, one about farmers and the other about Metis people. Primarily a work of cultural history, this study uses archival sources, post-colonial theory, and the theories implied in the fiction of Cherokee author Thomas King to probe the ways in which the whitestream assumptions of the individuals who institutionalised the arts on the Prairies hid both a Native audience and the kinds of issues and presentations such an audience might reasonably expect to see -- and that might help make the settler audience understand the responsibilities of becoming native to this place. The interdisciplinary nature of the book makes it useful to scholars in Native Studies, Museum Studies, Art History, Theatre, and English, as well as to arts administrators and patrons, art lovers, and artists. REVIEW: "Hiding the Audience provides fascinating and suggestive new lines of thought for students of Canadian cultural history. Its author, Frances W. Kaye, is a literary scholar and professor of Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In this book, she offers a commentary on the development of regional culture in Canada, a commentary that is informed by theoretical insights from literary and cultural studies as well as by traditional archive research....Anyone who believes in the power of art to transform society will find something of value in this book." Russell Johnston (Brock University), H-Net Reviews. "This major study of cultural production in western Canada by an American scholar is a significant contribution to our understanding of the formation of the western Canadian identity during the second half of the twentieth century....It was a pleasure to read about these episodes of western Canadian cultural history that I have personally lived through and watched with interest. Her case studies are insightfully argued. Together they provide an excellent summation of the current state of debate and dialogue in regional culture." -- George Melnyk (University of Calgary), The American Review of Canadian Studies, August 2004. “This book can read like polemic…Nevertheless, this is an essential book for anyone interested in Canadian culture and cultural practices west of Toronto. Frances W. Kaye unravels our cultural foibles, the extent of our blindness and general stumbling around. She also shows that even within institutions changes can be made, stereotypes abandoned, or at least modified, and new ways of looking, and even healing, embraced.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 1, Winter 2004/5 { 328pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; PB, £20.99, 0888643764:9780888643766 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HIGH RIVER & THE TIMES : An Alberta Community & Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966 [Paul Voisey] Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural and small town life, Paul Voisey has studied the influence of the Times on shaping the community of High River. Originally, the Times boostered High River as 'bustling and modern', and then later as 'small and friendly'. After World War II, with the help of the Times, High River constructed a mythical image as a ranching district with a wild and colourful past. REVIEW: "Voisey's account of High River's history is detailed and sure-footed...His depictions of the newspaper's boosterism in the years before 1914, its celebration of the homely virtues of rural and small-town life between the wars, and its nostalgic evocation of a largely mythical Wild-West past after 1945 are both convincing and intriguing." -- Gene Allen for H-Net Book Review, October issue. "If you're not from a small town, you'll be surprised to learn that rural weeklies don't even pretend to deliver news other than reports of local council meetings. The Times steered clear of covering local crime, for example, because it might embarrass the relatives of the accused." -- Alex Rettie, AlbertaViews, May/June 2004. “Voisey...a native of the province, chronicles the history of a town in southern Alberta and the newspaper that served the ranching and farming community for six decades under the ownership of the Clark family. (He notes that the Times continues under a different publisher). Divided into three boom-and-bust periods, the book includes photos, maps, news pages, and a foreword by family heir and former Prime Minister Joe Clark.” Reference & Research Book News, August 2005 { 270pp, 155x230mm, January 2004; PB, £17.99, 0888644116:9780888644114 / HB, £26.50, 0888644167:9780888644169 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HIGH RIVER & THE TIMES : An Alberta Community & Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966 [Paul Voisey] Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural and small town life, Paul Voisey has studied the influence of the Times on shaping the community of High River. Originally, the Times boostered High River as 'bustling and modern', and then later as 'small and friendly'. After World War II, with the help of the Times, High River constructed a mythical image as a ranching district with a wild and colourful past. { 270pp, 155x230mm, February 2004; HB, £26.50, 0888644167:9780888644169 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HOLOCAUST'S GHOST : Writings on Art, Politics, Law & Education [F DeCoste & Bernard Schwartz (eds)] A powerful collection of new commentary on the Holocaust by international writers from nine disciplines. The book forms a response to the Holocaust's demands on memory and on thought, and is an occasion to encounter the Holocaust both as history and as possibility. Contributors provided essays on art, politics, law, and education. REVIEW: "This volume ventures to raise courageous, sometimes controversial questions about memory and the past and in doing so contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust and its legacy. It is recommended for all law libraries, Holocaust studies programs, and liberal arts collections." Susan Lee Pentlin, German Studies Review 27/2. { 568pp, 210x260mm, May 2000; HB, £38.50, 0888643586:9780888643582 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HOLOCAUST'S GHOST : Writings on Art, Politics, Law & Education [F DeCoste & Bernard Schwartz (eds)] A powerful collection of new commentary on the Holocaust by international writers from nine disciplines. The book forms a response to the Holocaust's demands on memory and on thought, and is an occasion to encounter the Holocaust both as history and as possibility. Contributors provided essays on art, politics, law, and education. REVIEW: "This volume ventures to raise courageous, sometimes controversial questions about memory and the past and in doing so contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust and its legacy. It is recommended for all law libraries, Holocaust studies programs, and liberal arts collections." Susan Lee Pentlin, German Studies Review 27/2. { 568pp, 210x260mm, May 2000; PB, £29.50, 0888643373:9780888643377 / HB, £38.50, 0888643586:9780888643582 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HORNBOOKS OF RITA K [Robert Kroetsch] 'The Hornbooks of Rita K', Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness, this is a welcome new work from one of Canada's best writers. { 108pp, 130x230mm, September 2001; PB, £9.99, 0888643721:9780888643728 , University of Alberta Press } |
| HYDRA'S TALE : Imagining Disgust [Robert Rawdon Wilson] The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust by Robert Rawdon Wilson (Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta) is an informed and informative psychological and philosophical study of the experience of disgust: its origin, effect on human behavior, its use as a survival response, and much, much more. Carefully thought out and deftly written so as to be accessible for both scholars and non-specialist general readers alike, The Hydra's Tale is a truly fascinating and recommended look into a human emotion that most people strive to avoid, but inevitably experience within the context of their personal lives. REVIEW: "Not only does Wilson employ the conclusions of several intellectual disciplines to build his argument and help him toward an original conclusion, he also brings to bear the potential of fiction to illustrate and define human experience. A writer of fiction himself, Wilson employs biofictography to place his often highly conceptual argument in a recognizable Lebenswelt; he also uses fiction, fables, parables, and yarns to illustrate the scope of particular problems. The Hydra's Tale is complex in its use of research and in the development of a multilevel argument. It is a provocative study." -- Brian J. Edwards, (Deakins University), Poetics Today, Vol. 25, No. 3. { 446pp, 155x230mm, May 2002; PB, £20.99, 0888643683:9780888643681 , University of Alberta Press } |
| I WAS THERE : A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 19062006 [Ellen Schoeck] This country fascinates me. Everything is new; the people young, and the conviction grows that great things are bound to happen in this rich new country. Henry Marshall Tory undoubtedly included the creation of the University of Alberta among these "great things". First-person stories and period photographs present a unique insight into university lore from the vantage point of those who were most intimately involved in making the university what it is today: the students and alumni. { 757pp, 210x260mm, October 2006; HB, £23.50, 0888644647:9780888644640 , University of Alberta Press } |
| ILLUMINATING THE ALBERTA ORDER OF EXCELLENCE [Allison Sivak (ed). Illustrated by Cora Healy-Tobin] The Alberta Order of Excellence is the highest honour the Province of Alberta can bestow on a citizen. Members of The Alberta Order of Excellence come from all walks of life. Their careers range from medicine, science, engineering, law, and business to politics, education, agriculture, and the arts. The one thing all members have in common is that they have made an outstanding provincial, national, or international service contribution. { 168pp, 310x285mm, March 2008; BB, £58.99, 088864485X:9780888644855 , University of Alberta Press } |
| IMAGINING SCIENCE : Art, Science, and Social Change [Sean Caulfield & Timothy Caulfield (eds)] "Imagining Science" brings together internationally recognised artists, scientists, and social commentators to feature a body of original artwork and essays which explores the complex legal, ethical, and social concerns about advances in biotechnology, such as stem cell research, cloning, and genetic testing. Many important questions and themes emerge from this exchange, highlighting the linkages between scientific and creative research. This collaboration also stresses the vital role art can play in critiquing these biomedical technologies, particularly as advancements in science begin to challenge our ethical boundaries. { 148pp, 255x255mm, November 2008; PB, £20.99, 0888645082:9780888645081 , University of Alberta Press } |
| IMPORTANCE OF BEING MONOGAMOUS : Marriage & Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 [Sarah Carter] Provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of marriage as the region was home to a varied population of Aboriginal people and newcomers such as the Mormons, each of whom had their own definitions of marriage, including polygamy and flexible attitudes toward divorce. The work concludes with an explanation of the negative social consequences for women, particularly Aboriginal women, that arose as a result of the imposition of monogamous marriage. { 384pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £20.99, 0888644906:9780888644909 , University of Alberta Press (Athabasca University Press) } |
| IN THE NEWS : The Practice of Media Relations in Canada [William Wray Carney] Media relations is one of the mainstays of the communications business. With the proliferation of round-the-clock media, communicators have more opportunities than ever to find themselves 'in the news'. Yet today's communicators come from diverse backgrounds and are not always trained to work to their best advantage with the media. In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada provides an introduction to media relations, grounded in both communications theory and hands-on, day-to-day experience. The book explains current media practices and presents a plan for managing media relationships. Whether you need media to promote your issues to the nation at large or to reach small, targeted groups, this book is your step-by-step guide. In the News is perfect for communications students, media relations practitioners in the private, public and voluntary sectors, and anyone who wants to break a story in the news. { 225pp, 155x230mm, February 2002; PB, £14.99, 0888643829:9780888643827 , University of Alberta Press } |
| IN THE NEWS, 2ND EDITION : The Practice of Media Relations in Canada [William Wray Carney] With the proliferation of round-the-clock media, communicators have more opportunities than ever to find themselves "in the news." Yet today's communicators come from diverse backgrounds and are not always equipped to deal with evolving practices and technology. This revised and updated edition of In the News addresses not only traditional communications, but also the onslaught of new media that we experience in our everyday lives. Carney explains current practices and proposes a plan with which to manage media relationships. In the News is ideal for communications students and |