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Defying Expectations

Jason Foster

• Paperback | Engels
• In this study of UFCW 401, Foster investigates a union that has had remarkable success organizing a group of workers that North American unions often ... Lees meer

Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery

Virginia Vandall-Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Athabasca University Press
• Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners, this invaluable guide includes chapters on preparing for prostate surgery, the s... Lees meer

Finding Refuge in Canada

• Paperback | Engels | Global Peace Studies
• Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However, refugees entering the country have encounte... Lees meer

The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner

Judy Rashotte

• Paperback | Engels
• The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-six nurse practitioners working in acute-care settings within tertiary-c... Lees meer

Familiar and Foreign

• Paperback | Engels | Athabasca University Press
• The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perc... Lees meer

How to Read Like You Mean It

Kyle Conway

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Dialectics
• This candid, concise volume explores how we can open ourselves up to the ideas and people that scare us by reading difficult texts. Author Kyle Conway... Lees meer

From Bricks to Brains

Michael Dawson

• Paperback | Engels
• From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mi... Lees meer

Dustship Glory

Andreas Schroeder

• Paperback | Engels | Mingling Voices
• In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-bound ship in ... Lees meer

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Second Edition

• Paperback | Engels | Issues in Distance Education
• Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social softwa... Lees meer

Social Democracy After the Cold War

• Paperback | Engels
• Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an ... Lees meer

Mind, Body, World

Michael R W Dawson

• Paperback | Engels | Opel: Open Paths to Enriched Learning
• Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and ph... Lees meer

How Canadians Communicate

• Paperback | Engels | How Canadians Communicate
• Fewer Canadians than ever are lacing up skates, swimming lengths at the pool, practicing their curve ball, and experiencing the thrill of competition.... Lees meer

Not Hockey

• Paperback | Engels
• This carefully curated collection of essays explores the meaning of sports found in Canadian sports literature. How do sports differ from recreational... Lees meer

My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell

Arthur Bear Chief

• Paperback | Engels | Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• In a series of chronological vignettes, Arthur Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun Residential... Lees meer

Man Proposes, God Disposes

Pierre Maturié

• Paperback | Engels | Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of indep... Lees meer

Indigiqueerness

Joshua Whitehead

• Paperback | Engels
• A tender, eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life, work, and queer identity. Evolving from a conversation between author Joshua Whit... Lees meer

What We Are, When We Are

Cvetka Lipus

• Paperback | Engels | Mingling Voices
• Working within a postmodern style, this rhythmic and melodious collection of poems originally written in Slovenian by Cvetka Lipus and translated here... Lees meer

The Red Baron of Ibew Local 213

Ian McDonald

• Paperback | Engels
• A ground-breaking study of the firebrand leader of the leftist faction of a construction trade union at a pivotal moment in labor history. The "Red Ba... Lees meer

Hard Time

Ted McCoy

• Paperback | Engels
• Tracing the rise and evolution of Canadian penitentiaries in the nineteenth century, Hard Time examines the concepts of criminality and rehabilitation... Lees meer

Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Atha... Lees meer

Memory and Landscape

• Paperback | Engels
• Industrial development in the north has disrupted the environment and Indigenous livelihoods. Memory and Landscape explores how Indigenous peoples in ... Lees meer

Screening Nature and Nation

Michael D Clemens

• Paperback | Engels
• Describes the cultural and environmental legacy of Canada's National Film Board. The documentaries produced by the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada... Lees meer

Recollecting

• Paperback | Engels | West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
• Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women who have be... Lees meer

World Bolshevism

Iulii Martov

• Paperback | Engels
• Beginning in 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was divided into opposing sections, one led by Vladimir Lenin, the other by Iulii Martov.... Lees meer