The days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by as the boom-and-bust cycle runs its course and the global climate crisis becomes more acute. As the province scrambles to boost the dying oil economy and...
Alberta Collection
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Author:Summary: - Author:Graham, MarySummary:
Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last...
- Author:Waugh, Earle H.Summary:
Edmonton's Al Rashid Mosque has played a key role in Islam's Canadian development. Founded by Muslims from Lebanon, it has grown into a vibrant community fully integrated into Canada's cultural mosaic. The mosque continues to be a...
- Author:Bird, NickySummary:
The province of Alberta is a wonderful place to visit and to live. From the prairies to the foothills to the mountains, there are beautiful and interesting places to see and things to do: People come to Banff from all over the world to...
- Author:Hatherly, PatSummary:
Snuggle up with your little one and enjoy this Made-in-Alberta lullaby, a tribute to our big skies and wide open landscapes. Marvel at the beauty of our province with rhyming verses by Pat Hatherly and watercolour paintings by Jesse...
- Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:
Known for her series of true ghost stories, Barbara Smith is back, this time with a collection of fictional ghostly tales set in real Alberta locations. So light the fire and prepare to be spooked by these delightfully eerie stories,...
- Author:Kennedy, Gregory, Kagume, KristaSummary:
The Alberta Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Covering every inch of Alberta's incredibly varied landscape, this book teaches you to identify 411 species of mammals...
- Author:Hennel, LeahSummary:
A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta. Growing up in the city, Leah Hennel would spend summers with her cousins on a...
- Author:Sheldon, Ian, Eder, TamaraSummary:
Animal Tracks of Alberta will help you identify tracks of all shapes and sizes, from the Deer Mouse to the Mule Deer. This book is perfect for children, teachers, parents, backwoods explorers and naturalists: * Excellent illustrations...
- Author:Johns, JessicaSummary:
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
- Author:Reilly, JohnSummary:
John Reilly's second book, Bad Judgment, details the author's battle with the Canadian justice system and the difficulties he faced trying to adapt Eurocentric Canadian law for the benefit of First Nations people across the country....
- Author:Reilly, JohnSummary:
John Reilly's first book, Bad Medicine, was an immediate sensation and Canadian bestseller that sparked controversy and elicited praise nationwide for its honest portrayal of First Nations tribal corruption. This revised and updated...
- Author:Dalgarno, KenSummary:
There can be few places in the world where the visual impact of the landscape is as hauntingly captivating as the Badlands of the Northern Great Plains. Encompassing Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana, these amazing regions...
- Author:Michaelides, MarinaSummary:
Alberta is more than just black gold, wheat fields and stampedes--it has a fascinating, bizarre and amazing history: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is named after a brave who got too close to the action and...
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Bedside and Community is the inside story of fifty years of health care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on the first-person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty, and students along with archival...
- Author:Martini, Clem, Martini, OlivierSummary:
In 1976, Ben Martini was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A decade later, his brother Olivier was told he had the same disease. For the past thirty years the Martini family has struggled to comprehend and cope with a devastating illness,...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of...
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"In 2019, the United Conservative Party, under the leadership of Jason Kenney, unseated the New Democratic Party to form the provincial government of Alberta. A restoration of conservative power in a province that had seen the...
- Author:Seagrave, JayneSummary:
Jayne Seagrave—author of the bestselling Camping British Columbia and Yukon—is back with a book that only an avid camper with children could write. Camping with Kids in the West: BC and Alberta’s Best Family Campgrounds is the...
- Author:Acorn, JohnSummary:
Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters...
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