Author: Kazuko Nakajima
Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: society, network, japanese, learning
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 155238070X
ISBN-13: 9781552380703

This book addresses current issues of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) shared by language-teaching professionals in the new global network society. It focuses on the teaching and learning of Japanese as a second language, but is highly applicable to any language instruction. Collection emerged from previously unpublished presentations by leading Japanese scholars at the International Conference on Computer Technology and Japanese Language Education held at the University of Toronto.

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Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: honoring, norman, newell, studies, paleobiological, eon, evolution, bivalves
Number of Pages: 461
Published: 1998-08-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 155238005X
ISBN-13: 9781552380055

Since their origin in the Early Cambrian, the bivalve molluscs have evolved a remarkable variety of forms that reflect their diverse habits through the Phanerozoic Eon. The thirty papers in this volume represent the proceedings of an international symposium on the paleobiology and evolution of the bivalves held at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Canada, 29 September to 2 October 1995. An international group of authors, representing a dozen countries, draw on diverse aspects of both fossil and living bivalves, including their form, functional morphology, morphogenesis, tap

Authors:James J., Ph.D. Chrisman, J. Adam Holbrook, Jess
Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: family, multinationals, canada, western, entrepreneurship, innovation
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1552380750
ISBN-13: 9781552380758

A collection of articles by Canadian scholars that examines the nature of the entrepreneurial process at the national and regional levels. The book presents emerging research and scholarly perspectives on the roles of innovation, entrepreneurship, and family business in western Canadian economic development. Includes conceptual pieces, theory-building exercises based on field research, literature reviews, large-scale empirical studies, and presentations of new methodological advancements that further research in the field of business.

Author: Sandy Gow
Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: drilling, technology, alberta, oil, evolution, rock, bits, rigs, roughnecks
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 155238067X
ISBN-13: 9781552380673

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution of the component aspects of drilling technology in Alberta, from the evolution of power sources and drill bit designs to the composition of drilling muds and the use of fishing tools. Included are explanations of the costs and risks of oil well drilling and of the larger issue of industrial technology -- how it evolves and under what conditions. The author draws extensively from original source material such as interviews, photographs, and appendices from both the Glenbow Archives and the Devon-Leduc Petroleum Hall of Fame and Interpretive Ce

Authors:Canada Industry Canada, Paul J. Halper,
Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: canada, series, research, industry, financing, growth
Number of Pages: 760
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1895176956
ISBN-13: 9781895176957

Author: David Mittelstadt
Publisher: University of Calgary Pre
Keywords: courthouses, historic, alberta, justice, foundations
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1552381234
ISBN-13: 9781552381236

Based on original research, this exhaustive volume provides a rich background to Alberta’s historic courthouses. Covering in detail all of Alberta’s historic courthouses built between 1874 and 1950, this book considers many facets of these unique and significant structures. Using the backdrop of the major political periods in Alberta history, this study considers the influence of local and provincial politics on courthouse construction in addition to the cultural and economic milieu of the time. As part of the overall historical context, the book also presents some of the more colo

Author: Henry C. Klassen
Publisher: University Of Calgary Press
Keywords: alberta, history, business
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1999-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1552380092
ISBN-13: 9781552380093

Businesses large and small have always been an integral part of Alberta’s identity and growth. Exploring the evolution of business growth in Alberta, Dr Klassen’s study examines the role businesses have played in the economic, political and social development of the province. This book offers an unprecedented look at the birth of business firms, and the subsequent effects these had upon wider political and cultural matters in Alberta.