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The Creation of iGiselle
Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in th...
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The Stories Were Not Told
Canada’s First World War Internment Camps
From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as “enemy aliens,” some with their famili...
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John Rae, Arctic Explorer
The Unfinished Autobiography
John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae’s accomplishments is much greater. Over five expeditions, Rae mapped some 1,55...
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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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Polish War Veterans in Alberta
The Last Four Stories
In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by the war events and the emerging Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of t...
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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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Sam Steele
A Biography
Sam Steele, “the man who tamed the Gold Rush,” had a glittering, high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Biography follows Steele’s rise from farm...
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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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Northern Wildflower
This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun. Northern Wildflower is the ...
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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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Rooster Town
The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961
Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Couleeese were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Man...
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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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Pacific Northwest Trivia
Washington, Oregon & Idaho
Pacific Northwest Trivia is a readable, entertaining potpourri of fascinating facts about a region of ecological diversity, captivating history, a progressive political culture with hints of separa...
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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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Structures of Indifference
An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour p...
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Bear
This focused work contains Indigenous knowledge about the bear, including information about how bears live and what they eat. It tells several Indigenous legends about the bear: including the "Cher...
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Coyote
Coyote begins with information about this dog/wolf cousin that once was prevalent all across North America. It tells Indigenous tales featuring "The Trickster,” as many Indigenous cultures call Coy...
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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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Doug Knockwood, Mi’kmaw Elder
Stories, Memories, Reflections
Freeman Douglas Knockwood is a highly respected Elder in Mi’kmaw Territory and one of Canada’s premier addictions recovery counsellors. The story of his life is one of unimaginable colonial trauma,...
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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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Wolf
This focused work contains Indigenous knowledge about the wolf, including information about the life and facts of a wolf and two Indigenous legends: Wolf and the Laughing Man and How Death Came to ...
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