Author: Peter L. Antonelli
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: form, emergence, growth, essays, mathematical
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1985-01-01
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ISBN-10: 0888640897
ISBN-13: 9780888640895

Of interest to theoretical biologists, as well as mathematicians, physical scientists or anyone concerned with problems in growth, chemical ecology and the developmental biology of form, these essays on biological modelling by American, British and Canadian researchers provide an interesting geometric excursion to the frontiers of contemporary mathematical biology.

Authors:Adam Kantautas, Filomena Kantautas,
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: bibliography, lithuanian, supplement
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 1979-01-01
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ISBN-10: 0888640684
ISBN-13: 9780888640680

Authors:Robert Kroetsch, Thomas Wharton,
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: roaring, words
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-10-01
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ISBN-10: 0888643497
ISBN-13: 9780888643490

"I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in, "Backstrom, what have you got to offer?" I looked at the speaker and saw he was a farmer and I said, "Mister, how would you like some rain?" A new edition of another classic from one of Canada’s most enduring novelists.

Author: Professor Theodore BinnemaAssociate Professor Ger
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: john, foster, honour, essays, land, canada, rupert
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2001-05-01
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ISBN-10: 0888643632
ISBN-13: 9780888643636

Dr. John E. Foster spent many years researching and interpreting the Metis, continually re-examining his own thinking about the fur trade and the West, trying to find new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries, and, playing with ideas that re-imagined the Canadian West. In From Rupert’s Land to Canada, in tribute to John’s work, his friends and colleagues further explore themes related to "Native History and the Fur Trade," "Metis History," and the "Imagined West". Contributors include Michael Payne, Nicole St-Onge, Jan Grabowski, Jennifer Brown, Heather Rollason, Frits Pa

Author: Sinclair Ross
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: currents, gold, whir
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-12-01
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ISBN-10: 0888643551
ISBN-13: 9780888643551

Sonny, an aspiring musician, and Mad, a young woman down on her luck, struggle to survive in the mean streets of Montreal. Introduction by Nat Hardy.

Author: Muriel Whitaker
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: stories, war, canadian
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-10-01
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ISBN-10: 0888643837
ISBN-13: 9780888643834

Great Canadian War Stories shows how the experience of Canada at war captured the imagination of fiction writers across the country. With selections from Timothy Findley, Joy Kogawa, Louis Caron, Thomas H. Raddall, Earle Birney, Roch Carrier and others, this audiobook chronicles the scope of Canadian war efforts in the first half of the twentieth century. From the trenches of the Western Front to the plains of the Spanish Civil War, from the skies of North Africa to the jungles of Borneo, Canadian writers present the face of war in its many guises. There are women and children who have lost

Author: Christian Riegel Ph.D.
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: laurence, margaret, writing, territory, challenging
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1997-05-01
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ISBN-10: 088864289X
ISBN-13: 9780888642899

How can we approach Margaret Laurence’s writing in a postcolonial and postmodern age? Challenging Territory is a collection of essays that examine positionality across the range of Laurence’s writing, from her early journalism through the fiction to the late nonfiction.