University Of Alberta Press: 115 books
by Barry L. Strayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The Honourable Barry L. Strayer’s political memoir on Canadian constitutional reform 1960-1982.
Only Leave a Trace
Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“Make yourself big when you enter a room, when you meet a bear in the woods. Make yourself big. Meet the eyes.” Roger Epp’s poetic meditations about the best, the hardest, the loneliest times of leading a small university campus through significant change are depicted in a series of elegant...
Taking the Lead
Strategies and Solutions from Female Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In an extensive and frank exploration, leaders in women's coaching discuss the values women bring to the coaching profession, their quest for equal access, ways career aspirations and motherhood are juggled, how to negotiate contracts, and encounters with homophobia, harassment, and bullying. They...
From the Elephant's Back
Collected Essays & Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
“…the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet.” —Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century...
Disinherited Generations
Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and their Descendants
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Two Cree women fought injustices regarding the rights of Aboriginal women and children in Canada.
The Larger Conversation
Contemplation and Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to be where he found himself, Lilburn embarked on a personal attempt...
by Norma Dunning
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it back and for the last eight months I have not uttered Annie...
Wisdom in Nonsense
Invaluable Lessons from My Father
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood...
We Gambled Everything
The Life and Times of an Oilman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
We Gambled Everything is the autobiography of Canadian petroleum leader Arne Nielsen. A key figure in the genesis and evolution of the oil and gas industry in Canada, Nielson dispassionately locates his life and career in farseeing historical, geological, corporate, and political contexts. His memoir...
A Canadian Girl in South Africa
A Teacher’s Experiences in the South African War, 1899–1902
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly educated, hard working, and often opinionated, E....
by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian Pilgrimage The 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like...
Climber's Paradise
Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels, souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971 The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as...
Trouble with Lions (The)
A Glasgow Vet in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this fascinating collection of stories about working with wild animals in Africa....
The Remarkable Chester Ronning
Proud Son of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator, and one of Canada's major public figures. This fascinating story depicts Ronning, the man who received many honours, and deepens readers' knowledge of...