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  • Coded territories
    Author:
    Swanson, Kerry
    Summary:

    This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
  • Coded territories : tracing indigenous pathways in new media art
    Author:
    Swanson, Kerry
    Summary:

    This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic concepts and underlying approaches...
  • Coins of chaos
    Author:
    Brozek, Jennifer
    Summary:

    17 short stories based on the Hobo Nickel... During and after the great depression they were traded for food, sex, shelter, and power. Twenty of the seemingly ordinary nickles carved with dark representations of world evils and imbued...
  • Cold Matters
    Author:
    Sandford, Robert William
    Summary:

    Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and...
  • Collecting stamps would have been more fun
    Author:
    Ross, Sinclair
    Summary:

    This unique exchange of letters between literary icon Sinclair Ross and several prominent writers, publishers, agents, and editors asks why many Canadian artists, especially those in western provinces, spent a lifetime struggling for...
  • Community Music in Alberta
    Author:
    Lyon, George W.
    Summary:

    An album of photographs and musical experiences during the first century of Alberta's history. Explore Alberta's astonishing musical heritage, from brass bands and minstrel shows to Ukrainian folk music and symphonies, from...
  • Community nutrition for developing countries
    Author:
    Temple, Norman J.
    Summary:

    A co-publication with UNISA Press Nutrition textbooks used by universities and colleges in developing countries have very often been written by scholars who live and work in North America or the United Kingdom. And while the research...
  • Complete Canadian Book Editor
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  • Composting for Canada
    Author:
    Lewis, Suzanne
    Summary:

    Gardeners call compost ''black gold''--it is the product of decomposition of your kitchen scraps and yard waste and it works miracles in your soil. Use it to fertilize your beds and gardens indoors and out, to amend...
  • Concepts of culture
    Author:
    Muller, Adam, University Of Calgary Press
    Summary:

    How do we define "culture?" To what uses should such a concept be put? What costs and benefits do these uses entail? In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from a diverse group of established and emerging scholars...
  • Confessions of an Empty Purse
    Author:
    McDonald, S.
    Summary:

    Confessions of an Empty Purse is a poetic transmemoir of passion and fear, laughter, nightmares and dysphoria, preservation, degradation, dreams and pride … and it really happened. I was – am – there....
  • Connecting Canadians
    Author:
    Clement, Andrew, Gurstein, Michael, Longford, Graham, Moll, Marita, Shade, Leslie Regan
    Summary:

    Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community...
  • Continuations 2
    Author:
    Barbour, Douglas, Murphy, Sheila E.
    Summary:

    "Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive...
  • Controlling Knowledge
    Author:
    Stefanick, Lorna
    Summary:

    Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling...
  • Counter blasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson
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  • Countering displacements
    Author:
    Coleman, Daniel, Glanville, Erin Goheen, Hasan, Wafaa, Kramer-Hamstra, Agnes
    Summary:

    The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood,...
  • Course Correction
    Author:
    Morrison, Doug
    Summary:

    After his plane to Greece is hijacked, Canadian Michael Barrett finds himself in Ukraine on the run from the Mafia, in the company of his mysterious Ukrainian seat-mate, Dmitri. As Michael and Dmitri try to stay ahead of the pursuing...
  • Cover and uncover
    Author:
    Davis, Ann
    Summary:

    Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of...
  • Cowboy Wild
    Author:
    Campion, David
    Summary:

    Love it or hate it, the Calgary Stampede is a place where myth, history and spectacle collide. 100 years after an American vaudeville cowboy first dreamed it up, the Stampede remains an unrivalled homage to the West. Cowboy Wild was...
  • Cowboys, ranchers and the cattle business
    Author:
    Evans, S. M.
    Summary:

    Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an...

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