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    The Meteorites of Alberta

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    Anthony J. Whyte / Chris Herd, Foreword

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    When Edmonton Was Young

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    Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies

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    Retiring the Crow Rate: A Narrative of Political Management

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    Arthur Kroeger / John Fraser, Afterword

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    The University of Alberta Library: The First Hundred Years, 1908-2008 [FOR DISTRIBUTION ONLY]

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    Merrill Distad

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    Jane Austen Sings the Blues

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    Nora Foster Stovel, Editor / Graham Guest & Grant Stovel, Producers

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    In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics

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    Imagining Science: Art, Science, and Social Change

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    Sean Caulfield & Timothy Caulfield, Editors

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    Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons

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    J. Peter Rothe

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    All True Things: A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008

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    Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection

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    Gifted to Learn

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“Too Many Words”

Jeff, I am very pleased to see that you took my comments to heart. Your latest posts don’t display the blatant commercialism that produced such angst in my heart (and indigestion in my stomach).
I thought I might, therefore, take a moment to suggest that your sentences are long and unwieldy at times. Rather like Mozart’s [...]

Jane Goodall comes to town

When Cathie discovered she could not make it to Jane Goodall’s lecture at the Edmonton Jubilee Auditorium Thursday (April 10) night, she kindly passed me her ticket. I was already weary from two other big events this week—Ted Blodgett read Tuesday for The Olive poetry series at Hulbert’s Café, and Jerry Haigh and Ken Hoeppner [...]

Literary Cocktails…Biography & Life Writing Edition

With winter semester winding down, many people on campus look forward to a little R&R. And although the University of Alberta Press does not enjoy the same seasonal ebb and flow that many students and faculty enjoy—in fact, we are in the thick of a dense production schedule with new titles coming off the press [...]

UAP designers win an Alcuin…or four

The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada honours the best designed books in several categories: Children’s books; Limited Editions; Pictorial; Poetry; Prose Fiction; Illustrated Prose Fiction; Prose Non-fiction; Illustrated Prose Non-fiction; and Reference books. We are very proud to announce that our own Alan Brownoff and Marvin Harder placed in four [...]