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Weird Cars
Super Explorers want to show you some of the weirdest cars in the world, from a car shaped like a shoe to a dragon car, and an amphibious car to one powered by steam: • Some tiny cars have three w...
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Castles & Knights
Super Explorers takes you back in time to the Middle Ages when people lived in castles, and knights wore suits of armor and chain mail: • Many castles were surrounded by large water-filled moats. •...
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Reconsidering Confederation
Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation encomp...
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Canada’s Labour Market Training System
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and ...
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The Big Secret Book
Big Secret Book
The Big Secret Book is a book that fascinates, motivates, and initiates creative abilities in performance creation. Written by Denise Clarke, director of One Yellow Rabbit Summer Lab Intensive, eac...
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My Heroes Have Always Been Indians
A Century of Great Indigenous Albertans
In a series of inspirational profiles, Cora Voyageur celebrates 100 remarkable Indigenous Albertans whose achievements have enriched their communities, the province, and the world. As a child, Cor...
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The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock
Major General Sir Isaac Brock is remembered as the Hero of Upper Canada for his defence of what is now Ontario during the War of 1812, and also for his noble death at the Battle of Queenston Height...
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Sharing Breath
Embodied Learning and Decolonization
Treating bodies as more than discursive in social research can feel out of place in academia. As a result, embodiment studies remain on the outside of academic knowledge construction and critical s...
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Red Star Utopia: Inside North Korea
Inside North Korea
In Red Star Utopia: Inside North Korea, Austin Andrews uncovers visual clues about the country’s hardline isolationist and how it affects the rhythms and routines of its people. Photos in the book...
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Waiting
An Anthology of Essays
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend...
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Little Yellow House
Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood
“Ma’am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?” Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with a tough reputation. As they make their home in ...
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Just What the Doctor Ordered
The Insider’s Guide to Getting into Medical School in Canada
Take the inside track to medical school with expert advice from a specialist. Getting into medical school in Canada isn’t easy—you need to stand out among a field of highly motivated and accomplis...
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American Labour's Cold War Abroad
From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970
During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American...
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Birthing in Good Hands
Holistic Massage for Pregnancy, Labor, and Babies
Use the healing power of touch for a healthier, happier pregnancy. Pregnancy is an exciting time full of promise, but most women could do without symptoms such as back pain, headaches, nausea, and...
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Redcoats-ish 2
Jeff Martin’s War of 1812
Redocats-ish collects more comic strips from Jeff Martin’s War of 1812 stories, featuring the misadventures of John and George, two not so fearless men of the Canadian militia. Heeding the call to ...
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Essentials of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Provide the best care for young patients with this essential reference. - Sharpen your practice with a guided approach to pathophysiology, history taking, physical examinations, diagnostic imaging...
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Magnetic North
Sea Voyage to Svalbard
“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 s...
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K9 Teams
Beyond the Basics of Search and Rescue and Recovery
A professional development masterclass for K9 detection teams and people who work with them. It has been said that about the only thing two K9 handlers agree about is what a third handler is doing ...
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Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 4th Edition
Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Newly revised and updated, Law, P...
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Traditions, Traps and Trends
Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions
The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change. In eight essays, experts survey critical issues surr...
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Amma's Daughters
A Memoir
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family li...
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Small Cities, Big Issues
Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
Small Canadian cities confront serious social issues as a result of the neoliberal economic restructuring practiced by both federal and provincial governments since the 1980s. Drastic spending redu...
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Assessment Strategies for Online Learning
Engagement and Authenticity
For many learners assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although negative student r...
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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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Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else)
A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home
During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in ...
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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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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
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...
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Women in Criminal Justice
True Cases By and About Canadian Women and the Law
Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were ...
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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, reade...
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An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals
Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
The interest in and demand for online terminal degress across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. But...
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Water Rites
Reimagining Water in the West
What are the challenges we face around water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways tha...
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Water Rites
Reimagining Water in the West
What are the challenges we face around water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways tha...
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A Purpose Ridden - Updated Edition
A Peakbagger's Guide
An honest memoir that deconstructs an evolving father–son relationship, uncovers the struggles in becoming one of Canada’s most respected adventure cyclists and the dramatic impact of a recent canc...
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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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Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, ...
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The Malinois
The History and Development of the Breed in Schutzhund, Detection and Police Work
A comprehensive guide to the history and development of the Malinois breed. The Malinois is one of the most effective working dog breeds in the world, prized for their intelligence and high energy ...
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Crow Never Dies
Life on the Great Hunt
“It was a different crow, but the same crow, you understand? Because there is only one Crow. God made them all black and identical-looking because there is no reason for them to be different birds....
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The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of <em>Frankenstein</em> and the Discourse of Technology
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argu...
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Epidemiology for Canadian Students, 2nd ed.
Principles, Methods and Critical Appraisal
The second edition of Epidemiology for Canadian Students introduces students to the principles and methods of epidemiology and critical appraisal, all grounded within a Canadian context. This conte...
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Homes
A Refugee Story
In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria — just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten ...
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