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Marian lives in a world of specters. She is devoted to her research on ghosts in Quebecois literature to the exclusion of nearly everything else, including her husband. When an after-hours encounter at a conference sparks an uncomfortable attraction to her professor, the ghosts of her research begin to haunt her-all too literally.

Examines the processes, policies, and methodologies of creative tourism, paying special attention to the ways creative and place-based tourism can aid sustainable cultural development. The collection offers a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives from a variety of experts.

Stephen is middle-aged. He's gay. He's content, except when he isn't. Stephen is a teacher. He's a poet. He has a new teaching job in Kamloops, BC. Stephen has HIV. DR SAD is the story of one man's journey across Canada and through his diagnosis. It is the story of discovering the self within the world, and the world within the self.

Presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources.

A mystery, a road novel, and a coming of age story. Blending past and present, the self and the other, this novel crosses genres and defies categorization to be met and addressed on its own terms. Fearless and vulnerable, unabashed and wounded, this is a story of the liminal places where expectations falter and the unexpected thrives.

From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of sexuality. Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community.

A book of poetic commentary that plots a steady course of disillusion. Working in explicit dialogue with Dada, the surrealist poets, spiritual writing, and drawing on midrash as a wellspring, Gil McElroy captures in poetry the process of a mind in thought.

Examines the historical arc of secession and secessionist conflict across sub-Saharan Africa. Paying particular attention to the development of secessionist conflicts and their evolving goals, this book draws on case studies and research to examine three waves of secessionist movements, themselves defined by international conflict and change.

Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power through searing lyric, procedural, and visual poetry.

Presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history; provides an introduction to legal methodologies; shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources; and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources.

Presents the story of fifty years of health care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on first-person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty, and students along with archival research, and faculty histories, this collection celebrates the contribution the University of Calgary has made to the health of Albertans.

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. This book tells the story of how The Military Museums came to be.

In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives - who had won every provincial election since 1971 - they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this election.

Plant fossils have helped scientists reconstruct the natural surroundings that supported the growth and evolution of dinosaurs - their food sources and habitat. This book covers fossil plants within the province of Alberta since 1949.

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.