The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of...
Read Alberta eBook Collection
A partnership of the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and Alberta Municipal Affairs’ Public Library Services Branch (PLSB) launched the Read Alberta eBook Collection to make Alberta-published eBooks available to readers across the province and country. Titles are added quarterly.
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Author:Summary: - Author:Chastko, PaulSummary:
Alberta's oil sands represent a vast and untapped oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for the next 475 years. With an estimated 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil at stake, the quest to...
- Author:Foran, MaxSummary:
In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed...
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Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential...
- Author:Phipps, GregorySummary:
This interdisciplinary book develops a dialectical narrative about the beginning of the universe by combining Hegel's philosophy with texts about the Big Bang theory. Scientific accounts of the Big Bang indicate that the first second of...
- Author:University of Calgary Press, Xie, Shaobo, Wang, FengzhenSummary:
How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions? How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-...
- Author:McAdam, RhonaSummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban...
- Author:Glatt, JaneSummary:
"As pirates ravage the coast, Pia has to become what she swore not to: an Intelligencer."--
- Author:Rothe, ChrisSummary:
Dirk Danger Loves Life, the début novel by Chris Rothe, is a comedic tale of a sad little man who cannot function in any self-sufficient capacity. As his life swirls down the drain, serendipity provides a phone number that launches him...
- Author:McFarland, AllieSummary:
Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?
This picture of Devin, alive when she should not be alive, triggers of a journey of grief and discovery...
- Author:Lee, SkySummary:
Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader...
- Author:Biberstein, RenéSummary:
This book recounts many of Ontario's worst disasters, both natural and manmade. Among them are the American burning of Toronto in 1812, the Honeymoon Bridge disaster at Niagara Falls in 1938, the Mississauga train derailment of 1979 and...
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
The history of western Canada has its share of disasters, both natural and man-made. The devastation, the loss of life and the courage in the face of adversity make for powerful and poignant stories that are well told in this collection...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
From apple to zigzag and from 1 to 10, Neepin Auger’s books for children will be certain to educate and entertain preschoolers, parents and teachers alike. Inspired by her training as a First Nations artist and her academic...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
Colourful drawings illustrate the numbers through ten in English, French, and Cree.
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
The fourth book in this colourful and unique series introduces twenty-two basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community. Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
From apple to zigzag and from 1 to 10, Neepin Auger’s books for children will be certain to educate and entertain preschoolers, parents and teachers alike. Inspired by her training as a First Nations artist and her academic...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
This updated edition includes a few replacement words and new artwork, gently refreshing the content to help teach the basics of early language in English, French, and Cree. Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly...
- Author:Carlson, Nellie, Steinhauer, KathleenSummary:
This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities. Nellie Carlson and Kathleen...
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
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