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Edith Fowke was a renowned Canadian folklorist, folk song collector, researcher, writer, & teacher who during her long career recorded nearly 2000 songs. The songs, mostly of Irish origin, were popular among settlers to the Ottawa valley. This title includes a detailed musical analysis that outlines the meter, scale, & range of each song.

A book about memory & meaning. It brings to light the reflections & stories that women have constructed around the objects they have treasured, which in the past may have been deemed unimportant.

A collection of interviews with some of North America's foremost cultural critics & theorists, including Frederic Jameson, J Hillis Miller, Hayden White. It covers topics such as culture, ideology, history, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalisation, the role of the university & the role of the intellectual in today's society.

What baggage do explorers bring to their experiences? This book summarises the various factors that influence the writing & interpretation of exploration narratives, demonstrating the limitations of the assumption that there is a direct relationship between what the explorer saw & what the text describes.

Chronicles Unifarm, one of the most enduring agricultural organisations of its kind, from its development in the 1970s to its reorganisation as Wild Rose Agricultural Producers in 1995. This book provides discussions of co-operative philosophy, marketing boards, and the importance of education and training for members of the rural community.

Since Brian Moore's death in 1999, there have been no systematic pieces of full-length Moore scholarship. This book represents a literary treatment & fitting tribute to Moore as novelist. It includes a study of the writings on Brian Moore that considers the convergence of literature with theology.

Explores the causes, course and consequences of the Mexican Revolution in Coahuila. This book examines the movements led by Coahuila's native sons, Madero & Carranza that helped to define the Mexican Revolution. It includes a detailed history of the north-eastern state of Coahuila from the late Porfirian era to approximately 1920.

Deals with some basic thermodynamic & transport properties of fluids & solids that are of interest in engineering applications. This book discusses various notions about the basic structure of matter, fundamental concepts of our physical world & the conditions of equilibrium between different phases of matter.

Offers a glimpse of life during Alberta's early settlement & development & play out against a backdrop of sometimes dramatic family & political affairs back in Belgium.

Features letters and articles written by Dutch immigrants during the 1920's, which offer fresh insight into the struggles the Dutch faced attempting to fit into their new country, and open up the inner dimensions of the immigrants: the reasons for their emigration, their hopes, fears, and their experiences in Canada.

The Crowsnest Pass is famous for many coal-mining tragedies that afflicted the region in the early twentieth century. This title portrays the psychological and sociological features of both the individual and collective responses to death and danger, providing a picture of mining communities.

Tells over one hundred Arctic stories about adventurers, military officers, authors, guides, cultural heroes, police, traders, and even the occasional charlatan. While some of the biographies are of people still active in the North, this title also includes stories from as far back as the sixteenth century.

Considers the dialectics of humanism and post-humanism, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity inherent in the "Star Trek" series franchise. This title sheds light on how the "Star Trek" narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States.

The decision in 1978 by the Canadian government to allow cruise missile testing in the high arctic by their US allies was a controversial one. This title considers each aspect of this decades-long struggle, from the military & the political, to the protesters & the public.

Attempts to point the way towards a sustainable future for museums by examining institutions that have found creative ways to attain a socially responsive model for cultural resource management. This title features articles which act as the starting points for any discussion on what museums have been and what they should strive to be.

Visual artists Aganetha Dyck and Mary Pratt, and writers Sharon Butala and Mary Meigs came into prominence in middle age, doing their most significant work in their mature years. This title explores the evolving perceptions of "self" in the work of these four Canadian women.

Between 1882 and 1920, settlers from Ontario established social and economic structures at Abernethy, Saskatchewan. By virtue of hard work, perseverance, and the critical advantage of having arrived first, they transformed the Pheasant Plains into a prosperous farming community. This book traces the area's political and economic development.

Covering topics that range from teaching history, to the concept of property rights and the discipline of history in the television age, this collection of essays alter the notion of how we 'make history'. It shows that we are never fully able to bend history to our will, and that as we attempt to do so, we are often shocked at the turns it takes.

Presents an account of Canada's military at a crucial time in history. This book focuses on the personalities, politics and pressures that define Canada's involvement in WW2.

Reta Cowley was a painter in step with changes taking place in her country. Working primarily on location, Cowley painted the landscape around her home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and in 1964 received national recognition with a touring exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada. This book offers a picture of this influential painter.

Promotes reflection on the socio-ethical and policy and regulatory aspects of genomics and biotechnology. This collection of essays illuminates the common themes surrounding this contested issue and considers the politics, public perception, ethics, media representations, and future possibilities of genomics.

Includes essays that provide readings of how the social structures of Canada and of the respective countries of origin - including their ethnicity, ancestry, and lineage - interact to shape the identities, expectations, and aspirations of African Canadians.

Presents a study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources & drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds & the use of fishing tools. This title includes explanations of the costs & risks of oil well drilling & of the larger issue of industrial technology.

Features essays that explore the pressing issues & challenges that theories of globalisation present for postcolonial studies, including the difficulties of rethinking how 'marginality' might be defined in a new globalised world & the problems of imagining social transformation within globalisation.

Presents a fresh perspective on Partition - the birth of two nation states - India and Pakistan, and the end of the colonial period in India. This title studies the trauma experienced by survivors of Partition - the British who were forced to leave India, and the educated Indians, for whom this moment marked a rite of passage.

The Canadian War Museum's art collection is one of the finest in the world and the single largest repository of official war art in Canada. This title takes readers into a time and place, enabling a deeper understanding of the artists, their compelling, often disturbing, but always profound images.

Presents the story of Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company & a Cree woman. This title reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual, using materials from the Hudson's Bay Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfoot Reservation in Browning, Montana.

Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. This title addresses it and includes case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica.

Nunavik is the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. This book offers a history of the development of self-government in education in Arctic Quebec, from the arrival of the first traders & missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century up to the creation of the Kativik School Board & its evaluation in the 1990s.