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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
Booksplease Price: $15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show - Poetry and Literature 2020 (United States) and Trade Non-Fiction... -
Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey's Agents of Change by Cheryl A. MacDonald
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125795Author Cheryl A. MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Alberta... -
Nahanni Journals: R.M. Patterson's 1927-1929 Journals by Raymond Murray Patterson 9780888644770
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $26.15When you cross an Oxford graduate with a young man seeking gold and adventure in the remote wilderness, the result is Nahanni Journals. In this fascinating account of Raymond Patterson, a Londoner... -
There are Not Enough Sad Songs by Marita Dachsel 9781772124521
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. - from "Inheritance" Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores... -
The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch 9780888643728
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her... -
Elegy by E. D. Blodgett 9780888644503
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.07A lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of remembrance. Once I saw your breath suspended in the air then I understood how fire could be white... -
The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa by Jerry Haigh 9780888645036
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $29.15The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry... -
Baba'S Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada by Michael Mucz 9780888645142
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.77Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's... -
Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree by E. D. Blodgett 9780888645548
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory... -
Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson by Gregory Betts 9781772120370
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $40.11In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in... -
Welcome to the Anthropocene by Alice Major 9781772123685
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question-"Where do we fit in the universe?"-is made more urgent by the... -
All the Feels / Tous Les Sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et ecriture au Canada by Marie Carriere 9781772124873
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $29.63All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Quebecois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and... -
The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance by Alice Neikirk 9781772127034
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772127034Author Alice NeikirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Alberta... -
That Audible Slippage by Margaret Christakos 9781772127393
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a... -
A Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press Archive: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta by Michael J O'Driscoll 9781551953878
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $30.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551953878Author Michael J O'DriscollFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of Alberta... -
Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection by Ka Bo Tsang 9781551952161
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show - Trade Illustrated Book 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781551952161Author Ka... -
Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom by Ada S. Jaarsma
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.82Dissonant Methods is an innovative collection that probes how, by teaching inventively, postsecondary instructors can resist the constrictions of neoliberalism. Taking up the call in the Scholarship... -
How to Clean a Fish: And Other Adventures in Portugal by Esmeralda Cabral
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.07How to Clean a Fish describes an extended family stay in Portugal, full of food, adventure, and the search for home. Offered the opportunity to live in Costa da Caparica for an extended period,... -
There'S More by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.83In there’s more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as “anywhere we find something... -
Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A Sourcebook by Anthony J. Vickery
RRP: $79.97Booksplease Price: $56.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126044Author Anthony J. VickeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint University of Alberta... -
Situating Design in Alberta by Isabel Prochner
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $29.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772125788Author Isabel ProchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Alberta... -
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century by George Melnyk 9780888643254
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $32.64In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to WorldWar Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the... -
Industrial Safety and Risk Management by Laird Wilson 9780888643940
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $40.11The industrial workplace can be safe and healthy for workers and for the public. It can also be an environmentally sound and reliable operation, resulting in less damage to assets and balancing... -
State of Struggle: Feminism and Politics in Alberta by Lois Harder 9780888644015
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.77Alberta's Conservative governments have employed several strategies to resist feminist claims for women's equality, from stonewalling during the 1970's oil boom, to grudging initiatives during the... -
Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium by Myrna Kostash 9780888645340
Booksplease Price: $44.38A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in... -
The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem by Kevin P. Timoney 9780888646033
RRP: $174.14Booksplease Price: $123.49"In the delta, water is boss, change is the only constant, and creation and destruction exist side by side." The Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta is a globally significant wetland... -
Boom and Bust Again: Policy Challenges for a Commodity-Based Economy by David L. Ryan 9780888646286
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $32.25In many commodity-based economies, rollercoaster boom-and-bust cycles have come to be viewed almost as an unavoidable characteristic. Framed mainly in the context of the Alberta economy, the articles... -
Memory'S Daughter by Alice Major 9780888645395
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.07This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of... -
Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved by Lisa Martin 9781772121872
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71Lisa Martin's new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and... -
Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation by Natalie Loveless 9781772124859
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $33.28Knowings and Knots presents a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the methodology of research-creation and asks how those who make knowledge think about and value it. Not just a method but a... -
Tiny Lights for Travellers by Naomi K. Lewis
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $22.82Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here,... -
An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety by Cherie Dimaline
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126822Author Cherie DimalineFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint University of Alberta... -
The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities by Naomi Krogman
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126303Author Naomi KrogmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Alberta... -
Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home by Esi Edugyan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean... -
The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' 9780888645579
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888645579Author Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'Format PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Alberta... -
The John H. Meier, Jr. Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Collection: 1936-2009 by John H. Meier 9781551952642
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $29.63"This catalogue presents examples of first editions of all the English-language titles that have won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (GGs) from its inception... -
Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies by Frances W. Kaye 9780888643766
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.77Fran Kaye looks at a variety of public arts institutions, including the Glenbow, Banff Centre, and 25th Street Theatre, to see how each has participated in creating its audiences. She examines... -
Just Getting Started: Edmonton Public Library's First 100 Years, 1913-2013 by Todd Babiak 9780888647290
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888647290Author Todd BabiakFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Alberta... -
Spoken Cree, Level I: e-ililimonaniwahk by C. Douglas Ellis 9780888643476
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $37.00This revised edition of Spoken Cree by C. Douglas Ellis is the first of three levels in a complete Cree language course, based on the "N" and "L" dialects spoken west of James Bay... -
Abecedarium by Dennis Cooley 9780888646453
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary...