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    The rose that grew from concrete: Teaching and Learning with Disenfranchised Youth

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    Diane Wishart

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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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    Tony Cashman / Leslie Latta-Guthrie, Foreword

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

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    Sandra Rollings-Magnusson

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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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    Daniel Coleman

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    The Indian Commissioners: Agents of the State and Indian Policy in Canada's Prairie West, 1873–1932

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    Brian Titley

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    Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers

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    Paul Steenhuisen

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    We Are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays

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    Roger Epp

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    A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant

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    John Francis Grant / Gerhard J. Ens, Editor

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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

    Rod Macleod

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    The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World's Freshwaters and Estuaries

    David W. Schindler & John R. Vallentyne

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    Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection

    Ka Bo Tsang

    Copublished with University of Alberta Museums

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    Gifted to Learn

    Gifted to Learn by Gloria Mehlmann

    Gloria Mehlmann

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    Living Will, Living Well: Reflections on Preparing an Advance Directive

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    Dianne Godkin

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    Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    Under the Holy Lake by Ken Haigh

    Ken Haigh

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Western Canadian History Lecture

Tonight’s Western Canadian History Lecture featured our author, Rod Macleod. He spoke about the different key decisions that were made during the University of Alberta’s first 100 years, and the effect they had on the institution’s development. I was pleased to meet Frances Swripa, the newest member of the Press Committee for the U of [...]

Jerry Haigh’s The Trouble with Lions makes Saskatchewan Book Awards shortlist, twice!

Jerry Haigh was delighted to discover this week his new memoir, The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa, made the shortlist of the Saskatchewan Book Awards in two categories.
Jerry has been busy touring, speaking to media and storytelling across Canada, but happened to be home with his wife Jo in Saskatoon when the [...]

New Employee(s) of the Month(s) not even really UAP employees

…but so valued are they, we decided to give them two terms in office

Actually, things have been so hectic here at Ring House 2, the Press’s Office of Goodwill & Fun Loving has had precious little time to celebrate these unsung heroes. But if it wasn’t for the care, talent, and hard work [...]