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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.

Offers an history of East Greenland. This book summarises indigenous settlements over four millennia and describes European explorations since the Norse. It recounts each of the European and American expeditions, relying on the explorers' original accounts, as well as on the author's narration.

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.

The West was ripe with promise for those wishing to escape religious persecution, unproductive land, or intolerable living and working conditions. Some saw the Prairies as an ideal place to create a Utopian society. This group of essays presents the historiography of the Prairie West.

Explores some of the ways in which people define their membership in groups & their collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the definition & maintenance of that identity. This collection of essays addresses such diverse topics as the history of Brazilian football & the concept of masculinity in the Mexican army.

Bob Scriver is best known for his work in bronze and for his pivotal role in the rise of 'cowboy art'. Living and working on the Montana Blackfoot Reservation, Scriver created a bronze foundry, a museum, and a studio - an atelier based on classical methods, but with local Blackfoot artisans. This title is a biography of sculptor Bob Scriver.

There is little doubt that Canadian media & cultural institutions have been buffeted by the sheer magnitude of new communication technologies. This title illuminates the present media climate, & in doing so, suggests challenging paths forward that utilises the array of media technology to strengthen a Canadian cultural identity.

Highlights transboundary research and practices being undertaken within and across the Pacific border regions of North America. This book focuses on critical areas of international concern and engagement: land and water use planning; regional growth management; trade and transportation corridors; environmental education; and travel and tourism.

Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga & most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. This Holocaust memoir expose the little-known Auspitz labour camp.

Incorporating an array of subjects pertaining to planning, producing, analysing, & theorising theatre, this title includes strategies for re-creating theatre for students whose first language is not French.

It has been said that education in post-colonial Africa is in a state of crisis. Policies and practices from Eurocentric colonial regimes have carried over, intertwining with challenges inherent in the political and economic climate. This book examines education in the African context.

Exploring Latin American cultural identities from multiple vantage points, this collection addresses such phenomena as migration, globalisation, & gender, & examines the ways in which individuals relate to & identify with one another.