How do we define "culture?" To what uses should such a concept be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail? In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from a diverse group of established and emerging scholars...
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Auteur:Muller, Adam, University Of Calgary PressSommaire: - Auteur:McDonald, S.Sommaire:
Confessions of an Empty Purse is a poetic transmemoir of passion and fear, laughter, nightmares and dysphoria, preservation, degradation, dreams and pride … and it really happened. I was – am – there....
- Auteur:Clement, Andrew, Gurstein, Michael, Longford, Graham, Moll, Marita, Shade, Leslie ReganSommaire:
Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community...
- Auteur:Dussart, FrançoiseSommaire:
In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples' negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of...
- Auteur:Carter, ClaireSommaire:
Contemporary Vulnerabilities centres on critical reflections about vulnerable moments in research committed to social change. Exploring the many vulnerabilities within social science research, this interdisciplinary collection gathers...
- Auteur:Barbour, Douglas, Murphy, Sheila E.Sommaire:
"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive...
- Auteur:Stefanick, LornaSommaire:
Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling...
- Auteur:Bryan, AliSommaire:
From Leacock finalist Ali Bryan, a witty and immensely fun dramedy about a family's memorial trip to the City of Love, where chaos ensues at every turn. It's been ten years since Claudia's mother died after a tragic collision with a...
- Auteur:Betts, GregorySommaire:
In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence...
- Auteur:Coleman, Daniel, Glanville, Erin Goheen, Hasan, Wafaa, Kramer-Hamstra, AgnesSommaire:
The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood,...
- Auteur:Anderson Penno, EllenSommaire:
When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in a climbing accident while they were ascending Mount Baker in Washington's Cascade Range. The avalanche hid his body in a crevasse just weeks before Penno was...
- Auteur:Morrison, DougSommaire:
After his plane to Greece is hijacked, Canadian Michael Barrett finds himself in Ukraine on the run from the Mafia, in the company of his mysterious Ukrainian seat-mate, Dmitri. As Michael and Dmitri try to stay ahead of the pursuing...
- Auteur:Davis, AnnSommaire:
Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of...
- Auteur:Campion, DavidSommaire:
Love it or hate it, the Calgary Stampede is a place where myth, history and spectacle collide. 100 years after an American vaudeville cowboy first dreamed it up, the Stampede remains an unrivalled homage to the West. Cowboy Wild was...
- Auteur:Ryder, GraceSommaire:
From history to Hollywood, few figures have had the lasting impact as the American cowboy. Packed with profiles of the most famous cowboys (and girls), useful cowboy words and phrases and quotes from the legends like John Wayne, Will...
- Auteur:Evans, S. M.Sommaire:
Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an...
- Auteur:George, ThomasSommaire:
A creature of myth and magic emerging from the mist-shrouded forests of the Northwest, Coyote appears as a creator, messenger, hero, trickster, fool or shapeshifter. Always on the lookout for fun, mischief or the opportunity to help...
- Auteur:Anderson-Dargatz, GailSommaire:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sara used to be a back-up singer in a band. She left her singing career to raise a family. She is...
- Auteur:Heyking, Amy vonSommaire:
How does one learn to be a good citizen? A good Canadian? Creating Citizens : History and Identity in Alberta's Schools, 1905 to1980 looks at the role schools have played in creating and sustaining a sense of Canadian identity for...
- Auteur:Lampard, Robert, Stahnisch, Frank, Hogan, David B., Wright, James R., Jr.Sommaire:
Creating the Future of Health is the fascinating story of the first fifty years of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Founded on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Health Services in 1964 the Cumming...
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