This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women’s creative responses—in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters—to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.…
Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
Poet Alice Major surveys the sciences of the past half-century — from physical to cognitive to evolutionary — to shed light on why and how human beings create poems. Part memoir, part wonder-journey, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.…
Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait
A candid walk through the corridors of the poet’s remembering. “This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle of fish.” — Robert Kroetsch, from the Introduction…
Man in Blue Pyjamas (The): A Prison Memoir
From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein’s regime because his writing openly explored themes of peace, democracy, and freedom. This literary memoir is the first translation of his work from Kurdish into English.…
Measure of Paris (The)
Paris provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured. This wide-ranging discussion of the city’s history in 20th century literature and thought will appeal to all those who love Paris…
Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State
Examining various cultural products—music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts—the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond.…
Geographies of a Lover
Drawing inspiration from such diverse works as Pauline Réage’s The Story of O and Marian Engel’s Bear, poet Sarah de Leeuw uses the varied landscape of Canada—from the forests of North Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains, the prairies, and all the way to the Maritimes—to map the highs and lows of an explicit and raw sexual journey, from…
Those Who Know: 20th Anniversary Edition
First published in 1991, Dianne Meili’s Those Who Know remains an essential portrait of Alberta’s native elders. In this 20th anniversary edition, Meili supplements her original text with new profiles and interviews that further the collective story of these men and women.…
Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner
In the 1970s, English Marxist/humanist art critic, artist, and writer, John Berger, and Swiss film director, Alain Tanner, collaborated briefly on several film projects and produced a unique political cinema that was critical yet optimistic.…
Thriving: 1920-1939: Book two of the Understanding Ursula trilogy
With the return of prosperity to the Canadian prairies, Gustav Werner resumes his insatiable quest to acquire more prime farmland. Still, no one is more surprised than he when his hand is forced and his future reshaped by increasing drama and secrets.…
Follow the Money: Where is Alberta's Wealth Going?
Alberta’s most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft follows the money to uncover why Alberta—one of the richest places on earth—still talks poor when it comes to public services.…
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iii is a summation of the dread, the absence and the anguish a man in his mid-thirties experiences as he contemplates his past and future. It has a lot to say about alcohol, drugs and sexual politics. iii is a lesson in what not to do, who to avoid, what choices to rethink. Then again,…
33 Million Solitudes
Ali Riley applies her unique and inventive poetics to our National identity. Breaking down and remixing our familiar icons – for example, The Hudson‘s Bay Company, Susannah Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush – the poet finds that wanderlust, geography, solitude and a thirst for exploration still underlie the Canadian Spirit.…
Yukon Wings
Thorough, authoritative, and filled with over 700 superb previously unpublished photographs, Yukon Wings is an illustrated history of the birth and development of the aviation industry in the Yukon. An astonishing book of ingenuity, courage and determination, by engineer, researcher and pilot: Robert Cameron.…
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe
At once organic, spiritual and technical, the work uses QR codes to send readers outside the book to new vantage points. Goddess… is an upsurge, an uprising of feminine divine energy that Sheri-D says will quell the madness of our times.…
Dance, Gladys, Dance
The uplifting story of a woman, 27-year old Frieda Zweig, whose uncanny connection with a kindred spirit named Gladys causes her to see her life in a new way – as anything but ordinary.…
KURMA XI: A Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Cemetery on Lake Baikal, Siberia
Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI) Press
The third site monograph of the Baikal Archaeology Project series presents archaeological and human osteological data from fieldwork conducted at the mortuary site Kurma XI in the extensively researched Little Sea area of Lake Baikal, Siberia. Twenty-six graves were excavated by Russian and Canadian teams. Many very rare inclusions were found, with a bronze medallion…
Western Taxidermy
Tender, satirical and occasionally absurd, Barb Howard’s Western Taxidermy is a perfect introduction to one of Western Canada’s most high-spirited literary voices. These sixteen stories effortlessly balance wry social commentary and prairie gothic.…
Restless White Fields
How do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits a violent personal tragedy through startling imagery that rends even as it heals. Restless White Fields is unique, unexpected, and impossible to ignore.…
The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues
This publication is a compendium of some of the most visionary thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades…