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Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium by Michael Keren 9781552387993
Booksplease Price: €40.42Politics and Literature shows how important insights about genocide, poverty, state violence, world terrorism, the clash of civilizations, and other phenomena haunting the world at the turn of the... -
Missionaries among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Vantighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta 1875-1917 by Leonard Van Tighem 9781552381892
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.37Using valuable primary source material, most of which is previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French, editors Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul... -
Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories by Alex Bakker 9781773851525
Booksplease Price: €100.82A 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title 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... -
Working for Canada: A Pilgrimage in Foreign Affairs from the New World Order to the Rise of Populism by Geoff White 9781773854434
Booksplease Price: €94.25An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of... -
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women by G. Sophie Harding 9781773854304
Booksplease Price: €89.23Surviving in the Hour of Darkness addresses the health issues—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual—of black women, First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a collection of... -
Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent by Juliette Storr 9781552388495
Booksplease Price: €40.61Journalism in a Small Place explores the changes and challenges in journalism and communication in the Caribbean in the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of media in the English speaking... -
Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity by S. Leigh Matthews 9781552380963
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96When 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"". In this... -
Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931 by Mary Percy Jackson 9781552381694
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.35The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking ""strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery"" for ""country work"" in western Canada... -
Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 by Zhiqiu Lin 9781552381717
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32In Policing the Wild North-West, the first comprehensive social history of provincial police in western Canada between 1905 and 1932, Zhiqiu Lin investigates the complex relationship between the role... -
The First Dutch Settlement in Alberta: Letters from the Pioneer Years, 1903-14 by Donald Sinnema 9781552381731
Booksplease Price: €46.81Translated from Dutch to English, this collection of letters offers a unique perspective on the early pioneer years of the Dutch community in southeastern Alberta. The letters provide first-hand... -
The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 by Wendy Dathan 9781552385869
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.58The Reindeer Botanist is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator... -
Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada by Darrell Varga 9781552382486
Booksplease Price: €48.53This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies - an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. Zoe Druick, School of... -
The French Play: Exploring Theatre 'Re-creatively' with Foreign Language Students by Les Essif 9781552382134
Booksplease Price: €41.00The French Play is a step-by-step guide to the challenging process of producing and directing a foreign-language play with English-speaking student actors. Using his own student productions of... -
Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History by Amelia Kiddle 9781552389393
Booksplease Price: €48.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552389393Author Amelia KiddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University of Calgary... -
Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures by Christian Leuprecht 9781773854373
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.19Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and... -
Historical GIS Research in Canada by Jennifer Bonnell 9781552387085
Booksplease Price: €57.10Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct... -
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen by David Rondel 9781552385302
Booksplease Price: €49.71Kai Nielsen is one of Canada's most distinguished political philosophers. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has published more than 400 papers in political philosophy, ethics, meta-philosophy,... -
The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World by Barry Scott Zellen 9781552386460
Booksplease Price: €48.91In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments... -
Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre by Donna Coates 9781552387894
Booksplease Price: €40.56As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues... -
Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 by Robert Thacker 9781552388396
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching... -
Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West by Jim Ellis 9781552389973
Booksplease Price: €16.26What are the challenges we face around water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that... -
Somebody Else's Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883-1907 by Dr. Warren Elofson 9781552382578
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The 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... -
The Honourable Member for Vegreville: The Memoirs and Diary of Anthony Hlynka, M.P. (1940-49) by Oleh Gerus 9781552381373
Booksplease Price: €47.04Translated from personal memoirs and diaries, this is a compelling story of Anthony Hlynka, the only sitting Member of Parliament of Ukrainian origin from 1940 to 1945. Representing the constituency... -
The Eloquence of Mary Astell by Christine Mason Sutherland 9781552381533
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.01The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary... -
The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party by Faron Ellis 9781552381564
Booksplease Price: €46.24The Limits of Participation: Members and Leaders in Canada's Reform Party provides an historical account of the Canadian Reform Party, which shattered the established pattern of Canadian party... -
Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion C.E.F. by Harold W. McGill 9781552381939
Booksplease Price: €40.22Medicine and Duty is the World War I memoir of Harold McGill, a medical officer in the 31st (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. McGill attempted to have his memoir published by... -
The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye 9781773852775
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.19The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also... -
The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the MA (c)tis Community of Batoche, Saskatchewan by Diane P. Payment 9781552382394
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.17Revised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature, The Free People-Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Metis... -
Flicker by Lori Hahnel 9781773854687
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €26.62Cass Reisender doesn't enjoy her psychic abilities. They appeared after her parents were killed in a tragic accident and led her to Madame Freyja, a travelling fortune teller and all-round terrible... -
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 by Michele Hardy 9781773854861
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €71.82Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory a... -
We Need to Do This: A History of the Women's Shelter Movement in Alberta by Alexandra Zabjek 9781773854915
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €36.14In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women’s shelters have... -
body works by Dennis Cooley 9781773854489
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €32.65The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is supposed in... -
Unlocking by Amy LeBlanc 9781773851396
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.29Louise Till, mother of two, has inherited her father's hardware store after her parents' unexpected deaths. She begins to cut copies of her customers' keys for herself, each one a talisman against... -
Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility by Robert R. Janes 9781552381434
Booksplease Price: €39.81The articles in this book are outstanding examples of socially responsible museum work, based on the premise that museums, galleries and science centres must move beyond education and entertainment... -
Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988 by Eric Schmaltz 9781773854571
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with... -
Climate Justice and Participatory Research: Building Climate-Resilient Commons by Patricia E. Perkins 9781773854076
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02Climate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the... -
The Forest by 9780887722288
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €9.76"This poignant novel, originally published in French in 1935, is a lyrical evocation of the beauty, the harshness, and the tragedy of pioneering life. Based on the author's own experience of... -
Transforming the Field Education Landscape: Student Handbook on Field Education by Julie L. Drolet 9781773855585
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €47.01Field education has long been an integral and valuable component of the social work curriculum for students. Field is the place where students integrate their classroom learnings about core social... -
I Want to Tell You Love: A Critical Edition by Eric Schmaltz 9781773852294
Booksplease Price: €33.12Bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant, and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's renown as an experimental poet was growing as his social and... -
Working for Canada: A Pilgrimage in Foreign Affairs from the New World Order to the Rise of Populism by Geoff White 9781773851938
Booksplease Price: €38.85An officer of Global Affairs Canada from 1990–2018, Geoff White is a career expert in Canadian foreign policy. In Working for Canada he shares that expertise, illuminating the often invisible work of...