Joan Shillington’s new collection mines “this threshold of ordinary” to show the gleaming moments in all our small lives.…

Told from various points of view, Riel Street is a realistic portrait of a military family: never sentimental, often comical and occasionally sad.…

A truly innovative project, A City Map in Verse and Visual, presents over 75 great Calgarian poets and visual artists.  This book is the legacy project of Calgary’s inaugural Poet Laureate.…

This book contains the collected memories of Lola Rozsa as she and her husband, Ted, made their way from the southern plains of the US to the burgeoning oil fields of 1949 Alberta, and, for the next sixty years, made Calgary their home and helped build many of its cultural institutions.…

Conrad Kain in a total amongst climbers in Canada.  This work orders Kain’s letters chronologically, with annotations and the definitive translation of the German sections of his letters.  Historians and mountain culture enthusiasts worldwide will appreciate Kane’s genius for description, his passion for nature, his opinions, and his musings about his life.…

Hey, kids! These jokes are just for you to tell any time – at home, at school, at your favourite hangout! Your friends will be rolling in the aisles! Q: Why were the early days of history called the dark ages? A: Because there were so many knights! Listen to the audiobook!…

A compilation of 11 English and 5 French essays, this book was born out the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory held at the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta.…

In Climber’s Paradise historian and mountain studies specialist PearlAnn Reichwein presents a compelling case for understanding wild places and human activity within them as parts of a whole.  This is a work of invaluable scholarship in the areas of environmental history, public policy, sports studies and recreation.…

Is a trilogy of one act plays set in the Palliser Hotel and written i homage to Neil Simon.  Playwright Caroline Russell-King received rave reviews and critical acclaim for her work.…

A rounded portrait of Marion Nicoll, visionary artist, ground-breaking educator, and important founder of Alberta art. Marion Nicoll (1909 1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of…

Drawing on in-depth interviews with nurse practitioners working in acute-care settings across Canada, Dr. Rashotte describes how these professionals view their identities within this role and explores the practitioners’ struggles to engage in meaningful nursing practices.…

Development Derailed unravels a fascinating story of how politics undermined promise. Foran shows how an extensive 1962 proposal to develop the lands held by the Canadian Pacific Railway in downtown Calgary ultimately fell prey to a conflict between corporate rigidity and an unorganized civic administration.…

Get caught up on the Calgary Herald-bestselling Detective Lane series of novels by mystery maestro Garry Ryan with this ebook collection of his first three books, Queen’s Park, The Lucky Elephant Restaurant and A Hummingbird Dance!…

The pages of this anthology are filled with personal essays and poems of thoughtful musings, raw memories, and humorous self-examinations by authors and poets who have been labelled by the world-teachers, parents, and peers-as shy. Here, they proudly own up to their shyness, and their message is clear: they don’t need to be “cured”! Why…

Edith Stoker’s father is building a wall in their backyard. A very, very high wall—a brick bulwark in his obsessive war against their hated neighbour Edward Black. It is 1969, and far away, preparations are being made for man to walk upon the moon. Meanwhile, in the Stokers’ shabby home in the East Midlands, Edith…

In the complicated history between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. Game-Day Gangsters explores the discrepancies between the institutional handling of disciplinary matters and the actual experiences of Canadian football players.…

A respected Elder, traditional healer, and educational psychologist, Dr. Joseph Couture (1930-2007) transformed long-held views of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. These essays range from Aboriginal spirituality to ancestral ways of knowing, from the process of Native healing to education’s role in self-determination and social change.…

International scholars and military professionals explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.…

In this new edition of the groundbreaking Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, content is both revised and expanded. Continuing to fill a vital need for a Canadian textbook, the authors focus on major ethical issues faced by psychologists, including obtaining consent, protecting confidentiality, helping without harming, providing services across cultures, promoting social…

These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutional law, political science, and sociology, who identify the many facets of what it means to be Métis in Canada today. After the Powley decision in 2003, Métis peoples were no longer conceptually limited to…