University Of Calgary Press: 61 books
Sharon Pollock
First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the...
by D. B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Michael Rubbo’s groundbreaking work has had a deep and enduring impact on documentary filmmaking worldwide, though his name has remained relatively unknown. In The Documentary Art of Michael Rubbo, author D.B. Jones traces Rubbo’s filmmaking from his days as a film student at Stanford, through...
Flowers in the Wall
Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
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 struggle to put their recommendations into effect are often overlooked. Flowers in the Wall explores the experience...
From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration....
Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written...
Parks, Peace, and Partnership
Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of...
by Sheri-D Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson embodies an intricate ecosystem of language and feeling. These poems reach their roots down into the depths of what it means to be-to connect to one another, and to connect to the earth. With fine-tuned vocabulary, far-reaching observation, and the dream-vision...
by Emily Ursuliak
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In 1951 two intrepid women, Phyllis and her best friend, Anne, set off on a journey from Victoria, British Columbia, to Red Deer, Alberta, and back again. Travelling first by 1927 MG Roadster to Alberta, and then on horseback on the way home, the journey took months and would test the women’s wits...
John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography
Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toronto-based architectural firm John B. Parkin Associates (no relation) from 1947 to the 1970s, Parkin oversaw...
Border Flows
A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Declining access to fresh water is one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing environmental and human rights challenges, yet the struggle for water is not a new cause. The 8,800-kilometer border dividing Canada and the United States contains more than 20 percent of the world’s total freshwater...
Revisioning Europe
The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Revisioning Europe :The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner, is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary...
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume...
L'Alberta Autophage
Identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Winner / Lauréate, Prix du Canada en sciences sociales, 2015! http://www.ideas-idees.ca/media/media-releases/winners-canada-prizes-announced-1 Finaliste de langue française, Essais, des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général de 2013! http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/fr Cet ouvrage présente une...
by Rachel Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Once dominated by large cattle operations covering thousands of acres, Alberta in the 1880s-1930s saw a shift as small, family-owned ranches began to dot the province's southern plains. While this era of agriculture might conjure images of cowboys riding through the foothills or ranch hands tilling...