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...
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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.
- Author:Franco, Tanis, 1986-Summary:
- Author:Pal, PratapadityaSummary:
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.
- Author:Robinson, IraSummary:
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...
- Author:Gupta, AshisSummary:
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...
- Author:Wagner, J. P.Summary:
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’...
- Author:Sandford, Robert W.Summary:
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...
- Author:Bradley, NicholasSummary:
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,...
- Author:Varga, Darrell, University of Calgary PressSummary:
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/...
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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/...
- Author:Clarkes, GregSummary:
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...
- Author:George, ThomasSummary:
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...
- Author:George, ThomasSummary:
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...
- Author:Wilson, Sheri-DSummary:
– 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.
- Author:Thacker, RobertSummary:
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...
- Author:Conrad, Norman CharlesSummary:
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...
- Author:Grant, Patrick, 1941-Summary:
Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and developed through the extraordinary symbiosis evident between his paintings and letters. However it is a formidable task to read and analyze Van Gogh's nearly eight hundred...
- Author:Gupta, AshisSummary:
Esta sátira de la Revolución Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los...
- Author:Lawson, DeborahSummary:
Starting with a promise, Reckless Toward Blossoming begins a conversation with solitude, landscape and awakening. Through an ever-expanding world, we journey with the poet to navigate the “intersections of ditching streams,” ask...
- Author:Forsyth, JaniceSummary:
Reclaiming Tom Longboat recounts the history of Indigenous sport in Canada through the lens of the prestigious Tom Longboat Awards, shedding light on a significant yet overlooked aspect of Canadian policy and Crown-Indigenous relations...
- Author:Russo, Teresa G., University of TorontoSummary:
Anagnorisis, or recognition, has played a central role in the arts and humanities throughout history. It is a universal mode of knowledge in literature and the arts; in sacred texts and scholastic writing; in philosophy; in psychology;...