University of Calgary Press

Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies...

Reducere. Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC....

Challenging, powerful, and beautiful, An Orchid Astronomy wrestles with the grief we feel for the loss of those we love and grief for the changing ...

Reducere. Louise Till, mother of two, has inherited her father's hardware store after her parents' unexpected deaths. She begins to cut copies of her custome...

DescriptionIn 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every pro...

Rising from humble origins, Luther H Holton became an entrepreneur extraordinaire, with interests in real estate, railway building, steamboats, & b...

Reducere. Ginny Johnson, her husband Martin, and their two kids, Alistair and Ruby, spend a week at Happy Sands Resort every summer. And it's always perfect....

Offers a celebration of David More's engagement with the garden as a multifaceted subject. Featuring over fifty original artworks, this book encomp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael H. JacksonTwenty thousand copies of the first edition of Galapagos were sold. An attractive and comprehensive guide...

Examines the processes, policies, and methodologies of creative tourism, paying special attention to the ways creative and place-based tourism can ...

DescriptionIn 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people spa...

Brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political i...

Reducere. bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant, and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's renown as an ...

Brings the diverse energy histories of North and South American nations into dialogue with one another, presenting an integrated hemispheric framew...

This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are establis...

Reducere. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundl...

Reducere. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundl...

A Samaritan State Revisited brings together a refreshing group of emerging and leading scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas deve...

Reducere. M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterf...

Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the ...

Reducere. The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty o...

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museu...

Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitatio...

Reducere. Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal ...

Reducere. The grey wolf is one of the world's most polarizing and charismatic species. Respected, adored, or held in awe by many as an icon of wilderness, wo...

"Dirty Thirties" is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided wit...

Presents a summary of studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides a perspective on the developments in the histor...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the in...

Cultural practices have the potential to cause human suffering. The Tension Between Culture and Human Rights critically interrogates the relationsh...

Drawing on extensive archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews with former employees, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations analy...

Reducere. As Long As This Land Shall Last is a thorough document of Treaty 8 (1899-1900) and Treaty 11 (1921) between the Canadian Government and the Indigen...

Reducere. Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature, The Free People--Li Gen...

NOW AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER "It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream Is ...

This Element comprehensively analyses and discusses normative aspects of consciousness that have been neglected or only partly examined by philosop...