University Of Calgary Press: 61 books
by Lucas Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Imagine: a public park that floats above the city, slicing the urban grey with its narrow green body. It winds its way through Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea to the Rail Yards. It is the beneficiary of millionaires, politicians, and citizens, who rescued it from demolition. Every...
Intertwined Histories
Plants in Their Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest...
by Paul Zits
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with a pillowcase. Her brother, Alex, feels pleasant enough, except that his parts are made of wood, and...
by Kathleen Wall
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life. Photographs taken in locales from Regina to Venice, from Ottawa to Paris, inspire poems that reveal the unexpected beauty of the everyday experiences...
From Realism to Abstraction
The Art of J. B. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) was an important figure in the history of Banff and western Canada’s artistic community. Inspired by the locale, Taylor spent his career striving to depict the idea of the mountain, moving over time from traditional representations of nature to an intuitive perception...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
Vascular Plants of Alberta, Part 1
Ferns, Fern Allies, Gymnosperms, and Monocots
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Vascular Plants of Alberta is a user-friendly, portable key to the ferns, fern allies, gymnosperms, and monocots of Alberta. This key to the species of Alberta will delight all those interested in botany, with its intuitive and exhaustive presentation of the plants, including new names and taxonomical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment adds to our knowledge of this understudied period. This...
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature
Between Romanticism and Formalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and...
Understanding Atrocities
Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views on mass atrocity frame and complicate...
Finding Directions West
Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In the past, Western Canada was a place of new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys. This book anthology brings together studies exploring the way the west served as a place of constant movement between places of spiritual, subsistence and...
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals...
Animal Metropolis
Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear...