Sawbones Memorial

Sinclair Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Saskat... Lees meer

Hybrid and Inorganic Perovskite Nanostructures

Lioz Etgar

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• This book covers the benefits of controlling perovskite nanostructures for enhancing the properties of solar cells. It describes different aspects of ... Lees meer

Poetics of Naming

George Melnyk

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Literary historian and scholar George Melnyk engages the dynamic between truth, language, and personal identity. His intent is to take the reader to t... Lees meer

Gothic Canada

Justin D Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Canadians have always been obsessed with the idea of their own identities. Stories that tell us who we are provide a reassuring sense of identity for ... Lees meer

A Minor Planet for You

Leslie Greentree

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• Told with arresting candor, Leslie Greentree's short fiction creates the satisfying sense of discovering someone's long-kept secret, or the guilty ple... Lees meer

Threshold

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• A dynamic collection of Alberta's vibrant literary culture. Established names and emerging talents are brought together to demonstrate the outstanding... Lees meer

«He Should Have Listened to His Wife!»

Annegret Oehme

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• This publication uncovers two previously dismissed pre-modern adaptations of the Middle High German Wigalois (1215) by exploring their different appro... Lees meer

Wild Horses

Rob McLennan

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• Cast during his year in the U of A's writer in residency, wild horses is Ottawan rob mclennan's deep lyrical engagement with Edmonton, Alberta. He see... Lees meer

Completed Field Notes

Robert Kroetsch

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• A series of diary entries. Marginalia from Pausanias's description of Greece. A nineteenth century ledger. Postcards from China. What do these ostensi... Lees meer

What the Crow Said

Robert Kroetsch

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• The University of Alberta Press is pleased to issue this new edition of the classic Canadian novel, What the Crow Said, a major work by one of western... Lees meer

Recalling Early Canada

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. ... Lees meer

The Snowbird Poems

Robert Kroetsch

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• It's a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch's new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is a ... Lees meer

Recurring Fictions

Wendy McGrath

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• "Pick any place you like. Go ahead pick a place and I will long for it to be home." This poetic novel, by turns playful and poignant, follows a family... Lees meer

Demeter Goes Skydiving

Susan McCaslin

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• What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle brac... Lees meer

The Green Heart of the Tree

Annette S Woudstra

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings expl... Lees meer

Kat Among the Tigers

Kath MacLean

• Paperback | Engels | Currents
• Exemplar of the Moderns, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), is reanimated by postmodern diva Kath MacLean in a tantric work of literary ventriloquism. B... Lees meer