From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada's lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs--particularly involuntary sterilization programs--were...
Read Alberta Ebooks
A partnership of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) launched the Alberta eBooks Collection, with a copy of over 1,000 books coming to NNELS from 24 publishers.
- Auteur:Stahnisch, FrankSommaire:
- Auteur:Shivakumar, K.Sommaire:
Reinforce the knowledge, skills and confidence you need to excel in your certification exams. Ensure you're ready for the psychiatry certification exams, both written and oral, offered by the Royal College of Physicians and...
- Auteur:Bryan, DMSommaire:
When Pugg, dog to eighteenth-century printmaker William Hogarth, finds a leather portmanteau abandoned beneath his master's deathbed, the bereaved canine embarks on an inquiry to make sense of the disordered contents. Notes from a...
- Auteur:Evans, L. BrianSommaire:
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 sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary...
- Auteur:Franco, Tanis, 1986-Sommaire:
Spaces are not exterior to bodies. They influence and affect the way bodies exist in the world. A quarry is an unnatural place within a natural territory. At any moment, it can be abandoned. A body is not separate from the spaces it...
- Auteur:Pal, PratapadityaSommaire:
This book is a new biography of Ananda Coomarswamy whose philosophical and metaphysical contributions have been well recorded. This book deals essentially with his career in the arts.
- Auteur:Robinson, IraSommaire:
In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community: Studies...
- Auteur:Gupta, AshisSommaire:
A sequel to "Krishna, A Love Story", "Rahul" is set against the backdrop of two critical events that impacted Indian political history in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One was the rise of a Maoist movement...
- Auteur:Wagner, J. P.Sommaire:
Carrtog, landless third son of Tsingallik and warrior trained in the use of powder magic, intends on making his way as a mercenary for hire. During his travels he stumbles upon the royal christening of an expansion to Cragmor’...
- Auteur:Sandford, Robert W.Sommaire:
As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very origins of the cosmos right down to the unique structure and...
- Auteur:Bradley, NicholasSommaire:
Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes,...
- Auteur:Varga, Darrell, University of Calgary PressSommaire:
This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies … an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. - Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rain/...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies - an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. - Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rain/...
- Auteur:Mikkelsen, GlenSommaire:
Tighten Your Lines and Hang On! You're in for quite a ride! There is simply no other race like it. The Calgary Stampede's Rangeland Derby brings together a unique community of men, women and horses for the toughest teamster...
- Auteur:Clarkes, GregSommaire:
In the current opioid epidemic, opioid emergencies can arise without warning, among those we didn’t expect to be affected. If you are prepared, you can save lives. This guide shows you how to prepare and what to do. It describes the...
- Auteur:George, ThomasSommaire:
Below the mist-shrouded mountains of the West Coast lie the stories of how we came to be. It is through the myths of the people who have lived with this spirit of place for thousands of years that we uncover the mystery of our homeland...
- Auteur:George, ThomasSommaire:
Below the mist-shrouded mountains of the West Coast lie the stories of how we came to be. It is through the myths of the people who have lived with this spirit of place for thousands of years that we uncover the mystery of our homeland...
- Auteur:Wilson, Sheri-DSommaire:
– Re:Zoom – a book of no return. How can we return? We resume, but never from where we left off. We continue from some other place.
- Auteur:Thacker, RobertSommaire:
In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive...
- Auteur:Conrad, Norman CharlesSommaire:
Before the fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the guts of sacrificial animals on the temple floor, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta's past sacrifices (reading the...