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  • - Looking Foreward, Looking Back
     
    134,00 €

    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.

  • von Allie McFarland
    63,00 €

    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.

  • - Transatlantic Transgender Histories
    von Annette F. Timm, Rainer Herrn, Alex Bakker & usw.
    100,00 - 137,00 €

    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.

  • von Gil McElroy
    47,00 €

    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.

  • von Charles G. Thomas
    95,00 €

    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.

  • von Ken Hunt
    42,00 €

    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.

  • - Looking Foreward, Looking Back
     
    97,00 €

    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.

  • von Sean Braune
    41,00 €

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    135,00 €

    A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the International Joint Commission has been integral to the modern Canada-United States relationship. This book offers a definitive history of the IJC, separating myth from reality and uncovering the historical evolution of the IJC from its inception to the present.

  • - A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall
    von Ian Kinney
    44,00 €

    Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A challenging, prototypic piece of posttraumatic writing, Air Salt accommodates narrative discord and juxtaposes heterogenous voices.

  • - The Everett Klippert Story
    von Natalie Meisner
    53,00 €

    A heartwarming play that weaves together past and present in a multi-generational exploration of queer love. It tells the near-forgotten story of one of Canada's quiet heroes and reminds us all that the past must be remembered as we work together for a better future.

  • von Wayne Arthurson
    40,00 - 64,00 €

  • - Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
     
    95,00 €

    Bridging scholarship on network building for knowledge production and scholarship on research with and about refugees, Mobilizing Global Knowledge addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more.

  • - Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid
     
    99,00 €

    Brings together scholars to reflect on the history of Canada's overseas development aid. Addressing the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada's development assistance in the 1950s and specific themes in its evolution after 1960, this collection is the first to explore Canada's history with foreign aid with this level of detail.

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    83,00 €

    Offers a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume argues that violence is often rooted more in contingent outcomes than in deeply embedded structures.

  • - Plants in Their Social Contexts
     
    60,00 €

    Art, poetry, and essays by cultural anthropologists, experimental plant biologists, philosophers, botanists and foresters expose the complex interactions of the vibrant living world around us and give us a lens through which we can explore our intertwined histories.

  • - 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans from the University of Calgary
     
    77,00 €

    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.

  • von Paul Zits
    43,00 €

    In 1926, Margaret McPhail went on trial for the murder of her brother Alex, and throughout, maintained her innocence. Exhibit, more than a poetic retelling of her trial, chronicles the path to a verdict, misstep by misstep. Brother and sister become knotted aberrations, grotesqueries that are at times monstrous and at others stunning.

  • von DM Bryan
    86,00 €

    Ransacks eighteenth-century literary culture for its rumbustious pleasures, baroque complications, gothic horrors, and even the odd quiet contentment. Inspired by Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Sterne, and Scott, this book asks what the Enlightenment might have looked like if it had been just a little more enlightened.

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    75,00 €

    In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. This book interrogates what impacts, if any, this global protest cycle had on politics and policy.

  • - nouvelles perspectives
     
    94,00 €

    On associe souvent le 1er juillet 1867 a la date de la Confederation Canadienne, le jour de naissance du nouveau pays. Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867

  • - Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
    von Graham D. Taylor
    99,00 €

    For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Imperial Standard is the first full-scale history of Imperial Oil. It illuminates Imperial's longstanding connections to Standard Oil. This groundbreaking history provides unprecedented insight into one of Canada's most influential oil companies.

  • - Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War
    von Bob Bergen
    89,00 €

    Explores the role of the Canadian Air Force in the bombing campaigns of the Kosovo Air War while examining the military's interference with the news media attempting to report to the Canadian public. The book explores the ways in which the military manages the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and popular opinion.

  • - The Story of the Military Museums
    von Jeff Keshen
    46,00 €

    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.

  • von Clay Chattaway
    86,00 €

    The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleary, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range Texas System ranches failed. This book explores the Second Cattle Frontier and to tell the story of the Rocking P Ranch.

  • von Guy St-Denis
    87,00 €

    A work of detailed scholarship and a fascinating detective story, The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock details the sometimes petty world of self-proclaimed guardians of the past, the complex process of identification and misidentification, and the meticulous work of separating fact from fiction.

  • - Politics in the New Alberta
    von Duane Bratt
    100,00 €

    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.

  • - Canadaas Founding Debates, 1864-1999
    von PATRICIA ROY
    85,00 €

    Brings together Canada's leading historians to explore how the provinces, territories, and Treaty areas became the political frameworks we know today. In partnership with The Confederation Debates, this book breaks new ground by integrating the treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown into our understanding of Confederation.

  • von Lucas Crawford
    45,00 €

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    154,00 €

    Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Newly revised and updated, this fourth edition provides an introduction to the issues raised by the changing political role of Canadian judges.

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