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- Author:Melnyk, GeorgeSummary:
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim...
- Author:Khouri, MalekSummary:
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was created in 1939 to produce, distribute, and promote Canadian cinema both domestically and abroad. During the early years of the NFB, its creative output was largely informed by the turbulent...
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- Author:Joynt, Amanda, Sullivan, MichaelSummary:
This beautifully illustrated book features 56 species of fish found in Alberta's lakes, rivers and streams. Each account includes a full-colour illustration by artist Ian Sheldon, a range map and information on feeding, spawning,...
- Author:Barry, Donald, Applebaum, Bob, Wiseman, EarlSummary:
Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international relationship, from the extension...
- Author:Davie, MichaelSummary:
My name's Bacon Sobelowski, and I'm trying to find my someone. Kenny Rogers sings a song that says there's someone for everyone, and in Bellevue where I live, Kenny Rogers' word is gold. It's just too bad my...
- Author:Rose, SimonSummary:
Max investigates the unsolved murder of a teenaged boy, with the help of the boy’s ghost.
- Author:Corp, Canadian Broadcast, Walker, LovoniSummary:
Flavours of Edmonton is a celebration of our great multicultural city--and our great food. It started when CBC Edmonton challenged its listeners, viewers and readers to submit their favourite recipes and the stories behind them. As...
- Author:Burge, Elizabeth J.Summary:
Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily...
- Author:Sandford, Robert William, Freek, KerrySummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. Hydro-climatic change is no longer an abstract or theoretical concept if you have been directly...
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- Author:Shillington, JoanSummary:
Folding the Wilderness Within by Joan Shillington is a collection of poems of intimacy, both gentle and brutal, that celebrate the essential force of family. From a child’s hand holding cards “as if they were webbed” to Machu...
- Author:Taft, Kevin, McMillan, Mel, Jahangir, JunaidSummary:
Alberta's most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft, together with economists Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, follows the money to uncover why Alberta--one of the richest places on...
- Author:Rowe, Rebecca K.Summary:
It's 2110 and Creid Xerkler, the creator of the Molecular Advantage Machine – a virtual system that facilitates instantaneous access to all of humanity's knowledge and experience – is unwillingly...
- Author:Charach, RonSummary:
In Forgetting the Holocaust, Ron Charach reflects on his life as a Jew raised in post-Holocaust Canada. Charach’s poems look back on a life of accomplishment and reflect, sometimes with broad comedy, sometimes with great...
- Author:Mittelstaat, DavidSummary:
Based on original research, this exhaustive volume provides a rich background to Alberta's historic courthouses. Covering in detail all of Alberta's historic courthouses built between 1874 and 1950, this book considers many...
- Author:Ryan, GarrySummary:
"After a long series of professional and personal upheavals, Detective Lane begins his latest adventure happy, at peace, and enjoying life with his partner Arthur, their children Christine and Matt, and his able new partner, RCMP...
- Author:Anderson, James M., Lea, M. SheridanSummary:
This distinctive historical and archaeological guidebook to France introduces the reader and traveller to the palpable remains of past cultures that shaped the development of the modern country. A chronological description of the...
- Author:Baraga, FredericSummary:
Originally published in 1837 in Europe in German, French, and Slovenian editions, and appearing here in English for the first time, Frederic Baraga's Short History of the North American Indians is the personal, first-hand account of a...