Bøger udgivet af University of Calgary Press
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198,95 kr. 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.
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- 198,95 kr.
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- Looking Foreward, Looking Back
548,95 kr. 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.
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- 548,95 kr.
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528,95 kr. 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.
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- 528,95 kr.
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- A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall
198,95 kr. 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.
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- 198,95 kr.
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- The Everett Klippert Story
268,95 kr. 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.
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- 268,95 kr.
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- Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
543,95 kr. 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.
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- 543,95 kr.
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- Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid
498,95 kr. 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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- 498,95 kr.
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498,95 kr. 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.
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- 498,95 kr.
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- Plants in Their Social Contexts
318,95 kr. 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.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- 50 Years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans from the University of Calgary
368,95 kr. 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.
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- 368,95 kr.
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198,95 kr. 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.
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268,95 kr. 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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443,95 kr. 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.
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- 443,95 kr.
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- nouvelles perspectives
423,95 kr. 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
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- 423,95 kr.
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- Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
498,95 kr. 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.
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- Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War
443,95 kr. 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.
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- 443,95 kr.
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- The Story of the Military Museums
333,95 kr. 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.
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- 333,95 kr.
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543,95 kr. 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.
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368,95 kr. 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.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- Politics in the New Alberta
378,95 kr. 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.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- Canadaas Founding Debates, 1864-1999
368,95 kr. 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.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- Reimagining Water in the West
173,95 kr. Documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals and plants that all depend on this precious and endangered resource. Essays from scholars, activists, environmentalists, and human rights advocates illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water.
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- 173,95 kr.
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718,95 kr. 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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- Causes and Early Conduct, 2nd Edition
498,95 - 1.218,95 kr. Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America.
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- Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
498,95 kr. Considers the different ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change. The book examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource developments, and the establishment of parks, heritage sites, and protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and natural resources.
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- 498,95 kr.
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- The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
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