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Al Rashid Mosque
Building Canadian Muslim Communities
Front Flap: Forty years ago, as a young scholar in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Al Rashid’s Muslims welcomed my queries, tolerated my ignorance, and joyfully opened their homes an...
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Anarchists in the Academy
Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry
Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism’s power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on the common. She demonstrates how postanarchism offe...
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No Straight Lines
Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities
Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life. With...
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A Bunch of Jews (and other stuff)
a graphic novel anthology of jewish comics
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The Paraguayan War
Causes and Early Conduct, 2nd Edition
Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever f...
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Hope
Shame is dead, her demon father blasted back to Hell. Hope, newly born into the body of a young woman, stumbles from the battle scarred castle still filled with Shame's malevolent servants. The evi...
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Metis Pioneers
Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-sp...
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Rain Shadow
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...
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Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks...
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The Tree by the Woodpile
And Other Dene Spirit of Nature Tales
“With the passing of many of our Elders, the telling of these stories becomes more valuable than ever.” — Raymond Yakeleya The Tree by the Woodpile is a story about a First Nations boy who is tol...
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The Comedian
Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renound for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautu...
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King of Pies/Street Style Samurai
A collection of comics by winnipeg artists Jamie Isfeld and Ryan Harby
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Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a...
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Dust-Ship Glory
Elaine M. Will’s adaptation of Andreas Schroeder's 1986 novel Dustship Glory tells the story of Damanus ‘Tom’ Sukanen, a Finnish immigrant farmer who responded to the economic slump and drought con...
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Public Deliberation on Climate Change
Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
There exists in both academic and political circles a growing interest in public deliberation as an alternative to the sometimes adversarial and polarizing public engagement activities that result ...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
Invaluable Lessons from My Father
I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill With gene...
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China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and th...
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The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body
Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both ce...
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Flowers in the Wall
Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia
Truth and reconciliation is complex, complicated, and ongoing. Although the operational phases of truth commissions have been well examined, the efforts to establish these commissions and the strug...
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Window Horses
a graphic novel about a young Persian-Chinese Canadian girl
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Laugh Out Loud Dogs
LOL Dogs Q: Why did the dog cross the road twice? A: He was trying to fetch a boomerang. Q: What do you call a really cold dog? A: A pupsicle! Q: What kind of pet does Dracula have? A: A bloodho...
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Laugh Out Loud Cats
In Ancient Egypt was against the law to hurt or kill a cat, even by accident. The punishment was death. Sphynx cats do not have any fur. They don’t even have whiskers! Most pure white cats that ha...
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Laugh Out Loud Farm Animals
Q: What type of horse goes out only at night? A: A night-mare! Q: What did the llama say when he was asked to take out the garbage? A: No prob-llama! Q: What do you call an ostrich at the North P...
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Enough Space for Everyone Else
a graphic novel anthology of outer space comics
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Gothic Tales of Haunted Love
an anthology of gothic romance comics
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Living in the Tall Grass
Poems of Reconciliation
In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to let Canadians see through the eyes of the indigenous people. C...
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The Road to Armageddon
Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70
In 1864 the capture of Brazilian steamer the Marquês de Olinda initiated South America's most significant war. Thousands of Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan soldiers engaged in a protracted sieg...
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Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne
This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It featu...
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The Larger Conversation
Contemplation and Place
This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the ...
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Look Straight Ahead
Jeremy Knowles is a 17-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called ...
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Shadow Hymns: Photography by Austin Andrews
Shadow Hymns is an exploration of photojournalism and foreign correspondence by filmmaker Austin Andrews. Photo spreads in the book include Desert Sundials: Angles on the sand seas of Namibia; Pyra...
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Eyepiece
Adventures in Canadian Film and Television
In Eyepiece, brilliant cinematographer and filmmaker Vic Sarin lays out the landscape of his life. The book starts with his formative years in India and carries on with stories about early days at ...
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Searching for Mary Schäffer
Women Wilderness Photography
Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In S...
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The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories
Secrets aren’t good for families. — from “Big Luck Island” In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories—a collection of new, delightful, distinctive short stories—everyone is missing somethin...
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RumbleSat Art from the Edge of Space
RumbleSat: Art from the Edge of Space celebrates the two RumbleSat Art in Space missions; the Canadian Space Agency AUSTRAL 2017 campaign, and the JP Aerospace AWAY 123 launch. Featured in the book...
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Mixing Memory & Desire
The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased—memory became history. But Brian Kennedy argues that our c...
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Robots
Super Explorers brings you interesting facts and full-colour photos all about robots. There are about one million robots in the world. Some say that robots will be recognized as their own species b...
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Redemption
In this sweeping saga, Yvonne Harris tells the poignant stories of Robert and Alice, two young people who join the 1846 wagon train to cross North America on their way to the West Coast. Seeking a ...
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Canadian Fly Fishing Hot Spots and Essentials
Canada as a whole is a world-class fly fishing destination, and Duane Radford recounts some amazing trip-of-a-lifetime hot spots. He has fly fished them all, and in this book, he offers his experie...
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Canadian Kitchen Garden
All you need to know about large and small-format gardening, from preparing to planting and harvesting to preserving: • flats of microgreens and herbs • accessible containers on the backyard porch,...
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