University Of Alberta Press imprint: 105 books
The Burgess Shale
The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment...
by Alice Major
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from...
by Kimmy Beach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet. Kimmy Beach fuses popular culture and narrative...
by Stella August, Tracy Bear, Robyn Bourgeois
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous...
Pursuing China
Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution;...
Apartheid in Palestine
Hard Laws and Harder Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
“Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza, where Ghada Ageel was one of the victims from childhood. This collection...
Dreaming of Elsewhere
Observations on Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention.. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and...
Sanctioned Ignorance
The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of the Literatures of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"There is no such thing as 'the ivory tower.' Rather, there sit side by side numerous windowless towers of knowledge, each seeming to have only a small entrance and no discernable exit." -Paul Martin Multilingual, multicultural, and vast, Canada enjoys a rich diversity of literatures. So,...
Seeking Order in Anarchy
Multilateralism as State Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." —Tom Keating Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical foundations and the real-world outcomes of multilateralism in world affairs. Recognizing that...
by Myrl Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
“As soon as she was gone from this earth, I felt an overwhelming need for more of her. I had to find her again. But how do you find someone after they’re gone for good?” After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into...
Counterblasting Canada
Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building...
Magnetic North
Sea Voyage to Svalbard
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
“Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is born.” From the endangered Canadian boreal...
Surviving the Gulag
A German Woman’s Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps:...
Prairie Bohemian
Frank Gay’s Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got...