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You Look Good for Your Age

• Paperback | Engels | Robert Kroetsch
• "I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, 'You look good for your age, ' had inspired a bo... Lees meer

Sonic Mosaics

Paul Steenhuisen

• Paperback | Engels
• It is a common misconception that it is difficult or impossible to discuss music, that a piece of music simply speaks to the listener-or not. Paul Ste... Lees meer

The Creation of Igiselle

• Paperback | Engels
• The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design i... Lees meer

The Lord's Distant Vineyard

Vincent J McNally

• Paperback | Engels | Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
• Dr. McNally critically examines well over 150 years of Oblate and general Catholic history in Canada's western-most province with special emphasis on ... Lees meer

Imagining the Supernatural North

• Paperback | Engels
• "Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream." Margaret Atw... Lees meer

Risk of Death in Canada

Simon P Thomas, Steve Hrudey

• Paperback | Engels
• Risk of Death in Canada surveys both the protocols and health risk evidence collection and interpretation in Canada and the public's perception of hea... Lees meer

Inuit Knowledge of Polar Bears [Inuit Qaujimaningit Nanurnut]

• Paperback | Engels | Solstice
• Inuit have been hunting polar bear for centuries and have built up a rich knowledge about their habitat and behaviour-a knowledge expressed in the ora... Lees meer

Situating Design in Alberta

• Paperback | Engels
• Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainability... Lees meer

An Ark of Koans

E D Blodgett

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• 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 serv... Lees meer

Completed Field Notes

Robert Kroetsch

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• A series of diary entries. Marginalia from Pausanias's description of Greece. A nineteenth century ledger. Postcards from China. What do these ostensi... Lees meer

Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

Lawrence Hill

• Paperback | Engels | CLC Kreisel Lecture
• Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in... Lees meer

Continuations

Douglas Barbour, Sheila E Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• "The strength of this book is in its quick-change artistry, the sensation of flux that is continuous, and capable at any moment of erupting into epiph... Lees meer

Ckua

Marylu Walters

• Paperback | Engels
• This comprehensive history of Canada's oldest public radio station records the human stories and the struggle to survive through turbulent times. Foun... Lees meer

Little Yellow House

Carissa Halton

• Paperback | Engels
• "Ma'am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?" Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with a ... Lees meer

Indie Rock

Joe Bishop

• Paperback | Engels | Robert Kroetsch
• Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician's life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma. This intellige... Lees meer

Ancestors

Sarah Carter, Inez Lightning

• Paperback | Engels | Bruce Peel Special Collections
• This exhibition catalogue introduces historic photographs of Indigenous peoples of Western Canada from a collection housed at the University of Albert... Lees meer

Shredding the Public Interest

Kevin Taft

• Paperback | Engels
• Alberta had the tightest controls on spending in Canada during the very period when the Klein government has claimed costs were soaring out of control... Lees meer

Half-Light

Amy Kaler

• Paperback | Engels | Wayfarer
• Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to "go west," Amy Kaler offers deep reflections on the meaning of... Lees meer

Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities

Tyler McCreary

• Paperback | Engels
• Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet'suwet'en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colon... Lees meer

There Are Not Enough Sad Songs

Marita Dachsel

• Paperback | Engels | Robert Kroetsch
• There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. -- from "Inheritance" Marita Da... Lees meer

North of Everything

• Hardcover | Engels
• The essays in North of Everything examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cine... Lees meer

Pursuing China

Brian L Evans

• Paperback | Engels
• Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and socio... Lees meer

Until Further Notice

Amy Kaler

• Paperback | Engels
• In Until Further Notice, Amy Kaler records a personal account of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. She documents a series of jolts... Lees meer

Stories Told

Patrick Scott

• Paperback | Engels
• Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told fr... Lees meer