University Of Alberta Press: 115 books
Surviving the Gulag
A German Woman’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps:...
Prairie Bohemian
Frank Gay’s Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got...
Trying Again to Stop Time
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
“It’s a losing battle: my words have no chance against time. Sometimes, unable to catch up with imagination, I leave the battle, candle in hand, in complete darkness.” — from “Trying Again to Stop Time" Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native...
The Creation of iGiselle
Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise...
Personal Modernisms
Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-authoritarian contemporaries such as Alex Comfort, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, J.F....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals...
Overcoming Conflicting Loyalties
Intimate Partner Violence, Community Resources, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
To date, little has been published about the place of spirituality in working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Overcoming Conflicting Loyalties examines the intersection of faith and culture in the lives of religious and ethno-cultural women in the context of the work of FaithLink, a unique...
You Haven’t Changed a Bit
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters in the throes of realistic moments. From the fascinatingly unhinged...
Narratives of Citizenship
Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic...
Alfalfa to Ivy
Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Joseph B. Martin traces his climb from a Mennonite farm in the village of Duchess, Alberta to Dean of Harvard Medical School in his memoir, Alfalfa to Ivy. Readers are rewarded with an intimate perspective on academic politics and health care in Canada and the U.S. that Martin is perfectly poised...
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered...
by Derek Truscott, Kenneth H. Crook
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
In this new edition of the groundbreaking Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, content is both revised and expanded. Continuing to fill a vital need for a Canadian textbook, the authors focus on major ethical issues faced by psychologists, including obtaining consent, protecting confidentiality,...
by Jennifer Alsop, Matthew Beaudoin, Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...
by Angela Byrne, Silvije Habulinec, Erica Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
“Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.” Margaret Atwood, “True North” In this interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of...