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Encourages scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationships between leisure, social policy, and human development. This work questions how and why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of social success and individual self-worth, and investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead.

Amphibians & reptiles (herpetofauna) are a significant but much neglected component of the natural economy of the province of Alberta. This book features colour photographs of the species taken by renowned wildlife photographer, Dr Wayne Lynch.

Canada's first Immigration Act (1869) included Belgium among the 'preferred countries' from which immigrants should be sought, but unlike many other European countries, Belgium did not encourage its nationals to emigrate to relieve economic, demographic, and social crises.

Alberta's oil sands represent a vast oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for 475 years. This book presents the history of the oil sands project and a window on the nature of the complex relationships between industry, government, and transnational players.

An anthology dedicated to the poetry of the Alberta landscape, townscape, cityscape & countryside from the writers who have travelled the main roads and gravel roads of this sprawling province.

John Snow was a farm boy who played the violin, a navigator for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in enemy skies, a student of Henry Moore and British modernism, a loans officer at the Royal Bank of Canada, a lithographer ...and an animateur of the arts in Calgary. This book studies this influential figure in the cultural development of Calgary.

Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine film and literature? What conclusions can be drawn from the dissemination of violent images and narratives that depict violence in Argentina? This title features essays that analyze the extent to which violence communicates structural inequalities or lines of fissure in Argentina.

A collection of essays that tries to discover the Canadian 'self' through exploration of the terrorist other. It views the war on terror from unique eyes. It defines the boundaries of terror, examines its construction in the media, and explores its relationship to the Muslim 'other'.

A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off. Offering a study of the Igbo region of south-eastern Nigeria, the author shows that regional dynamics and local responses played vital roles in the era of transformation.

Words and images interact with each other in art and everyday life, and do so in many different ways. This book features six essays translated from the French. It concludes with a bibliographical essay that provides an extensive summary of the critical studies undertaken in France, Belgium, and, Canada.

When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the 'cheerful helpmate' and the grim deprivation of the 'reluctant immigrant'. This title shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era.

Jane Ash Poitras, a First Nations woman from northern Alberta, has emerged as one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation. This book situates Poitras' work in the national context of Canadian First Nations art during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the period when she began to receive wide recognition.

The Walrond Ranch, a cattle and horse operation in the foothills of southern Alberta, was one of the four giants of the livestock grazing industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This book features an environmental and economic study of one of the so-called 'great' ranches on the northern Great Plains of North America.

One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some 13 years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of 'sabotage', and sent to the Gulag for ten years. This is a biography of Ermolaev.

How can we make the best use of the places we live in? In recent years, environmental conservation and sustainable development have become critical parts of the planning equation. This book presents the ABC Method of approach to planning.

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.

Many ageing adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. This book studies the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors.

Offers a look at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco Elias Calles in post-revolutionary Mexico. This title examines the Calles government's attempts to centralise control over education in the US-Mexican borderlands region and to transform its rural and indigenous inhabitants into more 'mainstream' Mexicans.

Explores how African shrines, in their diverse forms, are more than just points of worship - they are powerful symbols of ethnic solidarity, group cohesion, and knowledge about the landscape. This book shows how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies.

Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces.

Reading European & North American naturalism through the lens of feminist & Foucaultian theories of power, the author argues that twentieth century naturalism increasingly deconstructs itself in its depiction of sexuality, inevitably exposing the genre's internal ideological contradictions.

Looks at Calgary Architect Jeremy Sturgess' creative career. This work provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of Sturgess' architecture and urban design, and assesses his contribution to Canadian architecture generally and Calgary architecture in particular.

Presents a collection of academic papers from the 2005 Chacmool archaeological conference. This book features chapters, each focusing on the discussion and application of various 'tools' for archaeological analysis and interpretation, including micro- and macro-botanical analysis, experimental study, off-site survey, and lithic use-wear.

Explores the economic relationship that existed between the Blood Indian reserve and the surrounding region of southern Alberta between 1884 and 1939.

Palace intrigues & clientelism drove politics at the viceregal court of colonial Mexico. By carefully reconstructing social networks in the court of Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque (1702-1710), the author reveals that the Duke presided over one of the most corrupt viceregal terms in Mexican history.

Examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina.