The University Of Alberta Press imprint: 88 books
Grant Notley
The Social Conscience of Alberta, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This book is a biography of my dad’s political life. However, it is also a primer for would-be politicians. Its most salient message? Political victory worth having rarely comes easy. – Rachel Notley, from the Foreword Grant Notley, leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984,...
Tar Wars
Oil, Environment and Alberta's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As place branding assumes paramount importance in an increasingly global, visual,...
Game Plan
A Social History of Sport in Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants. Read new perspectives...
Dramatic Licence
Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a particular authority as she moves between two of the dominant cultures...
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research...
by Douglas Barbour, Sheila E. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
"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 third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained...
Farm Workers in Western Canada
Injustices and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured...
Metis Pioneers
Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned...
Polio '53
A Memorial for Russell Frederick Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
In the summer and fall of 1953 an epidemic of poliomyelitis struck Edmonton. Dr. Taylor recounts his experiences as director of the program that dealt with the worst medical emergency ever faced in northern Alberta.
Unsustainable Oil
Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." —from the Introduction In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions,...
Why Grow Here
Essays on Edmonton's Gardening History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
“A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: ‘Those don’t grow here you know. It’s too cold.’ If the apricot tree in Highlands knew it couldn’t live here, it might stop scattering white blossoms over three lawns.” – Bert Almon Edmonton has a rich and diverse horticultural...
Not Drowning But Waving
Women, Feminism and the Liberal Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
"Not Drowning but Waving...gestures both at the difficulties faced by feminists in the humanities in Canada and at the possibilities of hope, of new 'waves' of feminism." Twenty-two essays explore topics such as feminism in the liberal arts disciplines; the relationship of the liberal arts...
Only Leave a Trace
Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
“Make yourself big when you enter a room, when you meet a bear in the woods. Make yourself big. Meet the eyes.” Roger Epp’s poetic meditations about the best, the hardest, the loneliest times of leading a small university campus through significant change are depicted in a series of elegant...
Wisdom in Nonsense
Invaluable Lessons from My Father
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
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 generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood...