All ebooks by University of Calgary Press - in PDF and EPUB
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All ebooks by University of Calgary Press in PDF and EPUB


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The Boom


Paul Chastko


When the Calgary Petroleum Products's Dingman No. 1 Well began operation in Turner Valley on May 14, 1914, it unleashed a spectacular frenzy of greed and excess. In a fever of free-market capitalism over 500 oil companies were created, selling fortunes on paper to eager...

Publication date: 2025-12-10
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the book of sentences


Rob Mclennan


Fantastically rooted in the local and in the family, the book of sentences captures small, quiet, and intimate domestic moments with snippets of grammar lightly held to themselves by lineation and punctuation. These poems move quickly, processing the wonder of the...

Publication date: 2025-10-15
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What is Broken Binds Us


Lorne Daniel


What is Broken Binds Us shares stories of loss, absence, acceptance, and hope. Returning to the page after a long absence, poet Lorne Daniel provides a unique perspective on crisis that balances raw emotion with vulnerability, thoughtfulness, and care. In seven...

Publication date: 2025-09-15
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Behind the Bricks


Richard W. Hill Sr. , Alison Norman , Thomas Peace , Jennifer Pettit


From the outside, the Mohawk Institute looks like a large and welcoming school building. When one looks behind the bricks of the school, however, a much different story becomes apparent. Conceived and overseen by Six Nations community member Richard W. Hill Sr., Behind...

Publication date: 2025-09-01
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The Next War


Timothy Andrews Sayle


The threat of nuclear conflict loomed menacingly over the world during the Cold War. Early warning of an attack was a crucial focus for military and political intelligence. Intelligence networks in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom came together, forming...

Publication date: 2025-07-15
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Rag Pickers


Blaine Newton


A sinister note sewn in the lining of a vintage jacket from a second-hand store compels a young woman to make changes in her life.A brother discovers his dying twin has been burying jars of coins in an attempt to create mystery in a neighbourhood. On his 43rd birthday,...

Publication date: 2025-06-15
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Bonememory


Anna Veprinska


Memory is stored in the body.Memory sprouts in families and is transmitted from one generation to the next.Memory imprints at the level of bone. In Bonememory, Anna Veprinska bares down to the marrow. An expert lyric poet writing at the intersection of memory and pain,...

Publication date: 2025-04-15
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The Material Mind


Max Kistler


The idea that persons or animals possess properties of two types, physical and mental, or psychological and cognitive, inevitably raises the question of how such cognitive properties can be causally efficacious, with respect to other cognitive, physiological, or...

Publication date: 2025-04-15
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Onward


Patrick H. Brennan


This is the story of the King’s Own Calgary Regiment. Beginning in the last years of collective innocence before the Great War, it follows the regiment to Vimy Ridge, through the short years of peace to Dieppe and the Italian Campaign, through the establishment and...

Publication date: 2025-02-28
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The Fort McKay Métis Nation


Peter Fortna


This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil sands development....

Publication date: 2025-02-25
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Mythologies of Outer Space


Jim Ellis , Noreen Humble


Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science...

Publication date: 2025-01-15
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Diverging the Popular, Gender and Trauma AKA The Jessica Jones Anthology


Jessica Bay , Mary Grace Lao , Pree Rehal


Jessica Jones made her first Marvel Comics appearance in Alias #1, November 2001, and went on to star in three ongoing series. In 2015 the Netflix adaptationJessica Jones premiered to positive reviews. Following the scarred and superpowered titular character as she...

Publication date: 2024-12-15
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The Loom


Andy Weaver


Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an existence which had, for a very long time, been self-sustaining and tranquil. The Loom is a book about...

Publication date: 2024-11-15
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A History of Public Health in Alberta, 1919-2019


Donald W.M. Juzwishin , Lindsay Mclaren , Rogelio Velez Mendoza


Public health is diffuse, divided, and poorly understood. As a policy and practice, public health promotes and protects people and communities. As a field of academic inquiry it provides deep insights into the ways individuals and collectives can work within societies...

Publication date: 2024-10-20
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Invisible Lives


Cristalle Smith


Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, the invisibility of single motherhood, and...

Publication date: 2024-07-15
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We are Already Ghosts


Kit Dobson


The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life.We are Already Ghosts joins the Briscoe-MacDougalls in the summer of 1996 and...

Publication date: 2024-05-15
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Limited Verse


David Martin


At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English, made up of only 850 words. One person, knowing of this inevitability,...

Publication date: 2024-04-30
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Protest and Parternship


Brendan Boyd , Jennifer Winter


The development of equitable relationships and outcomes among Indigenous communities, resource development companies, and governments in Canada is slow and uneven. Protest and Partnership brings together expert contributors to ask what works - and what doesn't - in...

Publication date: 2024-04-30
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Deterrence in the 21st Century


Madeleine D'agata


The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft.The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring...

Publication date: 2024-01-30
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Remembering Our Relations


Peter Fortna , Sabina Trimble


Wood Buffalo National Park is located in the heart of Dénesuliuné homelands, where Dene people have lived from time immemorial. Central to the creation, expansion, and management of this park, Canada 's largest at nearly 45, 000 square kilometers, was the eviction of...

Publication date: 2023-12-22
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