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  • A Beginner's Guide to Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies
    Author:
    Nugara, Andrew W.
    Summary:

    Following the success of his first snowshoeing guide, Snowshoeing in the Canadian Rockies (RMB, 2011), Andrew Nugara has now written the ultimate guide for those finding themselves on snowshoes for the first time. A Beginner&#x2019...
  • A Bitter Mood of Clouds
    Author:
    Hansen, Vivian
    Summary:

    Begin in Denmark with a strange birth, experience the life of Anne turned Arne, a hermaphrodite. Journey then to Alberta where Vivian Hansen hears her ancestors and the remarkable story of Anne. This intricately braided long poem is...
  • A Business History of Alberta
    Author:
    Klassen, Henry C.
    Summary:

    Businesses large and small have always been an integral part of Alberta's identity and growth. Exploring the evolution of business growth in Alberta, A Business History of Alberta is a comprehensive and unique study which examines...
  • A Canadian Girl in South Africa
    Author:
    Graham, E. Maud
    Summary:

    As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration...
  • A Canadian Walks Into a Bar
    Author:
    MacLennan, David
    Summary:

    All the weird and wacky jokes about Canadians. Do those Americans tell jokes about us? About how we all live in igloos, about how dumb we are (even though we know we are smarter than them), about how we don't have running water or...
  • A Canterbury Pilgrimage / An Italian Pilgrimage
    Author:
    Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Pennell, Joseph
    Summary:

    A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. “You have a good horse,” he then said; “it eats nothing.” —from An Italian...
  • A century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
    Author:
    Campbell, Claire Elizabeth
    Summary:

    "... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and...
  • A Common Hunger
    Author:
    Fairweather, Joan G.
    Summary:

    Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of...
  • A Designer's Log
    Author:
    Power, Michael
    Summary:

    Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power...
  • A Grammar of the Kabardian Language
    Author:
    Colarusso, John
    Summary:

    This is the first comprehensive grammar of a non-Indo-European language from the Northwest Caucasian family in a language other than Russian. Kabardian is complex at every level. The language treated is not the literary standard, but...
  • A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North
    Author:
    Smith, Gordon W., Smith, Gordon W.
    Summary:

    Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on “The Historical and Legal Background of Canada...
  • A History of the Edmonton City Market 1900-2000
    Author:
    Merrett, Kathryn Chase
    Summary:

    Kathryn Chase Merrett celebrates 100 years of the Edmonton City Market in this groundbreaking local history. Richly textured with archival photographs, drawings, maps, and anecdotes by vendors and customers of the city market, this book...
  • A hummingbird dance
    Author:
    Ryan, Garry
    Summary:

    Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third Detective Lane Mystery in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever-increasing body count and suspect list. When Ryan Dudley ventures out on horseback and his horse...
  • A metaphoric mind
    Author:
    Couture, Joseph E.
    Summary:

    Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as "Dr. Joe," stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as...
  • A Model Death
    Author:
    Chapman, Brenda
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Anna Sweet accepts a date with Nick Roma, office manager for Storm Investigations. Just before their...
  • A Most Beautiful Deception
    Author:
    Lacroix, Melissa Morelli
    Summary:

    Melissa Morelli Lacroix explores the love and longing, loss and pain, grief and healing found in the music of Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schumann, and Claude Debussy in a series of poetic cycles that respond to each composer’s...
  • A new era for wolves and people
    Author:
    Boitani, Luigi, Paquet, Paul C, Musiani, Marco, University of Calgary Press
    Summary:

    Wolves hold an almost mythical status in the cultural history of Europe and North America. For hundreds of years, they have been the subject of fairy tales and other lore, embodying mystery, cunning, and sometimes threat. People are...
  • A Painful Duty
    Author:
    Evans, C.D.
    Summary:

    Nothing reveals the dark underbelly of humanity more profoundly than the practice of criminal law. A Painful Duty: 40 Years at the Criminal Bar celebrates author C.D. Evans’ journey that, in his own words, “brought combat,...
  • A Peakbaggers Guide to the Canadian Rockies: North
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  • A Purpose Ridden
    Author:
    Correy, Ryan
    Summary:

    In the summer of 1996, a father and his 13-year-old son embarked on a 3400 km bicycle tour across Canada. Affectionately known as “Manhood Training,” this unique bonding experience became the inspiration for Ryan Correy to break away...

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