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"Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his chosen home in Canada. His poems speak of the tension that exists between the place of one's birth and an adoptive land, of that delicate dance that happens in the face of censorship and oppression. In defiance of Saddam Hussein's call for sycophantic political verse, he turns to the natural world to reference a mournful state of loss, longing, alienation, and melancholy. Barzanji's poetry is infused with the richness of the Middle East, but underlying it all is a close affinity to Western Modernists. In those moments where language and culture collide and co-operate, Barzanji carves out a strong voice of opposition to political oppression." --Publisher's description.

Throughout its history, movable elements in books, commonly called pop-ups, have been used to educate, entertain, and inspire both children and adults. "Wow, open this!" looks at the art and science of moveable elements incorporated into books. Books that delight children with that ''wow'' moment, as a scene comes to life in their hands, were first used in scholarly works to help illustrate a vast array of topics such as geometry, architecture, medical and natural science, cryptography, astronomy, calendars, time telling, navigation, and cosmography. Primarily used as entertainment today, movable elements and variations of the pop-up book are also used by artists who want to challenge our assumptions about what a book really is by reinterpreting the form and how it functions.

Catalogue showcases first-edition titles; winners of the prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.

Diverse collection of maps, paintings, and illustrated texts-spanning five centuries-beautifully represents China's transformation.

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 where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.

Novelist Todd Babiak commemorates Edmonton Public Library's centenary with a bustling narrative and rich history.

Back Cover: The George W. Arthur Plains Bison and Martin S. Garretson Collections are outstanding examples of the Canadian collections housed at the University of Alberta Libraries. They are representative of our special mandate to collect and preserve books, printed ephemera, maps, manuscripts, and photographs related to the history of Canada's three Prairie Provinces. The printed heritage of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, including that recorded in Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (2003), may be found on our Peel's Prairie Provinces Website (http: //peel.library.ualberta.ca), where thousands of these texts are freely available online. Front Flap: Ken Tingley, the City of Edmonton's first Historian Laureate, has been involved in historical research and writing for forty years. Ken's family moved from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Royalties, Alberta, in 1955, then to Edmonton in 1956. He has a deep interest in local history and the ephemera that so often expresses that history. His numerous publications include Alberta Remembers: Recalling Our Rural Roots, with Karen Brownlee; A is Alberta: A Centennial Alphabet, with R.F.M. McInnis; The Heart of the City, for Cloverdale Community League; The Path of Duty: The Wartime Letters of Alwyn Bramley-Moore, for the Historical Society of Alberta; and The Strathcona Dream, for the Old Strathcona Foundation. Ken experienced the power, speed, noise, and dust of buffalo personally on one occasion when a small herd in Elk Island National Park became alarmed and broke into a stampede, involving him briefly in the melee. His respect for the big animals remains undiminished years later. Back Flap: Dr. Merrill Distad, Associate University Librarian (Research and Special Collections Services) and University Archivist, University of Alberta, is the co-editor of Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (Toronto, 2003) and the author, most recently, of The University of Alberta Library: The First Hundred Years, 1908-2008 (Edmonton, 2009)