Alberta Books Catalogue

Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.

Strong and Free: My Journey in Alberta Politics

by Ted Morton

University of Calgary Press

2024

Politician and political scientist Ted Morton shares an insider’s view of Alberta Politics in this illuminating autobiography. Ted Morton has spent 30 years in Alberta politics. He was elected as a Reform Party senator-in-waiting in the 1998 Alberta Senate election. In 2001, Stockwell Day appointed him as Parliamentary Director of Policy and Research for the…

Doing Democracy Differently: Indigenous Rights and Representation in Canada and Latin America

by Roberta Rice

University of Calgary Press

2024

A comparative study of innovative approaches to Indigenous self-government. Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are responding to demands for Indigenous representation and autonomy and in what ways the ongoing…

Writing Ukraine

by Myrna Kostash

AU Press

2024

Myrna Kostash’s term as writer in residence at Athabasca University began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced…

The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference

by John D. Norton

University of Calgary Press

2024

A thorough investigation of the large-scale structure of relations of inductive support within the material theory of induction, according to which inductive inferences are warranted not by universal rules but by facts particular to each other. The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference investigates the relations of inductive support on the large scale, among the totality of…

Invisible Lives

by Cristalle Smith

University of Calgary Press

2024

My ex-husband tried to choke me to death while I was sleeping. I was twenty-three years old. I survived. Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, the invisibility of single motherhood, and the…

Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 5th Edition

by ed. F.L. Morton & Dave Snow

University of Calgary Press

2024

The fifth edition of Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada addresses the most recent issues, controversies, and political conversations regarding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power in Canada. Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the…

We Are Already Ghosts

by Kit Dobson

University of Calgary Press

2024

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life. We are Already Ghosts joins the Briscoe-MacDougalls in the summer of 1996 and returns to them at five-year intervals. William, Clare, Helen, Michael,…

Journalism for the Public Good: The Michener Awards at Fifty

by Kim S. Kierans

University of Calgary Press

2024

Journalism makes a difference. In-depth investigation and reporting can break preconceptions, expose hidden truths, and have deep impacts on both public perception and public policy. Evidence-based journalism is essential in a world where information is free, and facts are disputed. The Michener Awards, named after Governor General Roland Michener, for half a century have recognized…

All That’s Left

by Lisa Guenther

NeWest Press

2024

Darby Swank’s entire life changed when her Aunt Bea was brutally murdered one summer in their rural Saskatchewan community. Following her gripping debut Friendly Fire, Lisa Guenther skillfully picks up Darby’s story a few weeks after the dramatic finale. Building her life anew, Darby makes new and lasting friendships and connections with recently found family members,…

Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees

by Edited by Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath, and Anna Kirova

AU Press

2024

Refugees face distinct challenges and are often subject to dehumanization by politicians, media, and the public. In this context, Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees provides urgent insights and policy relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and integration. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, scholars from the social sciences, arts, and humanities, alongside practitioners and refugees, explore what it…

Art of Camouflage

by Sara Power

Freehand Books

2024

A powerful debut about the lives of girls and women caught in the orbit of the military. Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military moves, new cities and new selves. Military kids whose mercurial friendships flare and fade to the rhythm of their parent’s career path. Throughout, this collection…

The Game of Giants

by Marion Douglas

Freehand Books

2024

A novel about the unpredictability of parenthood, a journey into the unchartered territory that is having a child, especially when that child turns out to be different. Rose Drury has just learned that her son, Roger, is below average—at the third-percentile rank, according to the pediatrician. Co-parenting with her partner, Lucy, in a 1980s Calgary…

Common Clinical Presentations

by Christopher Naugler

Brush Education

2024

Master clinical skills with key information on 169 common clinical presentations This comprehensive guide provides clinicians, medical students, and other health care professionals with a structured approach to navigating 169 of the most common clinical presentations with confidence and efficiency. The presentations in this book are organized by key feature and alphabetized for quick and…

The Harvesters

by Jasmina Odor

Freehand Books

2024

Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory. When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she expects to ride bicycles through the picturesque streets and admire the parks and courtyards. But the trip takes a different turn when the two travellers…

Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

by ed. Agnieszka Doll, Laura Bisaillon, and Kevin Walby

AU Press

2024

As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a…

Ethics in Action: Personal Reflections of Canadian Psychologists

by ed. M. A. Suzie Bisson, Carole Sinclair, and Ivana Djuraskovic

University of Calgary Press

2024

Psychologists face ethical and cultural intricacies in their work on a daily basis. Psychology graduate training and continuing education programs often focus mainly on common ethical issues and mainstream psychological services and settings. Although this provides a wealth of valuable information, it is necessary to look beyond the usual and mainstream.…

On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace

by ed. Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines

AU Press

2024

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance have polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How do we restore the bonds of connection among human beings? How do we shift…

Moving to Delilah

by Catherine Owen

Freehand Books

2024

From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman’s journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old house and creates a new meaning of home. In search of stability and rootedness, in 2018 Catherine Owen moved from coastal Vancouver to prairie Edmonton. There, she purchased a…

Limited Verse

by David Martin

University of Calgary Press

2024

At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English, made up of only 850 words. One person, knowing of this inevitability, secretly translates poetry into this limited tongue, a gift to…

Protest and Partnership: Case Studies of Indigenous Peoples, Consultation and Engagement, and Resource Development in Canada

by ed. Jennifer Winter and Brendan Boyd

University of Calgary Press

2024

The development of equitable relationships and outcomes among Indigenous communities, resource development companies, and governments in Canada is slow and uneven. Protest and Partnership brings together expert contributors to ask what works—and what doesn’t—in these relationships. It explores what processes lead to greater involvement and control in decision-making by Indigenous Peoples and the establishment of…