Books from University of Alberta

  • Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta
    By Karen L. Wall

    Gibson Girls, 70 Gideon, Russ, 210 Gideon family, 210 Gillespie, Beatrice, 146 Gillespie, Vera, 70 Gilmour, Ira,323fig. girls and curling,102 and hockey, 113,114,126–27 Girls' City League (Edmonton), 69,70 Girls' Rodeo Association.

  • We Gambled Everything: The Life and Times of an Oilman
    By Arne Nielsen

    Jiang Qing, 165–66 Johnson, Lyndon, 137 Jones, Muriel, 183, 184 Jones, O.L., 144 Joseph Lake,83 Keck, Howard and ARN lawsuit, 185, 187 character of, 192,195 as head of Canadian Superior,191, 193–94, 196 hires ARN, 181, 182, 184 Keck, ...

  • Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta
    By Karen L. Wall

    Lamb, “Deacon White.” D. Mclellan, “Bill Hunter,82. Founder of World Hockey Assn,” Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2002, http://articles.latimes.com/2002/dec/21/local/ me-hunter21; “'Wild' Bill Hunter Dead at 82,” CBC Sports, ...

  • Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta
    By Karen L. Wall

    79. bio,” Hockey Night in Canada, CBC Sports, accessed January 29, 2008, http:// www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/hnic/bios-ron.shtml; Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, “Ron MacLean” accessed February 27, 2012,http:// ...

  • John Rae, Arctic Explorer: The Unfinished Autobiography
    By John Rae

    I allude to Mr. R. Campbell, who, altho' he has been—from many adverse circumstances—unfortunate, appears always to have exerted himself to the utmost for the Company's interest, under difficulties and against obstacles that would have ...

  • Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics
    By John B. Dossetor

    Edmonton: John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre; 1997. Ad hoc Committee to examine the Definition of Death, Harvard Medical School. A definition of irreversible coma. JAMA 1968;205(6):337–40. Duff R, Campbell A. Moral & ethical dilemmas in ...

  • Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism
    By Shirley A. McDonald, Bob Barnetson

    They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

  • Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill 1864-1893
    By William Edward Traill, K. Douglas Munro

    Before I bid fare well to E. Lake for the present, I will tell you that there are about 100 [graves] close to the Fort. ... My third day from E.L. I reached Fort Pelly where I was received with open arms by all hands especially by Mrs.

  • In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
    By William Wray Carney

    For people who are frequently in the news or who work a great deal with the media , this schedule means their day could begin as early as ... On top of these are local news releases sent directly to the media by mail , fax or e - mail .

  • dear Hermes...
    By Michelle Smith

    By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story.

  • The Grads Are Playing Tonight!: The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club
    By M. Ann Hall

    Confident of victory, the Grads offered to travel south, with a stop in Lethbridge to play an exhibition game, before heading to Barons for a sudden death match. Taller, heavier, and far more skilled, the Grads beat the Lethbridge team ...

  • Gendered Militarism in Canada: Learning Conformity and Resistance
    By Nancy Taber

    Pushing the boundaries of education theory, research, and practice, this book will be of particular interest to feminist, adult, and teacher educators and to scholars and students of education, the military, and women’s and gender studies ...

  • abecedarium
    By Dennis Cooley

    ... vering woman or man ouvering up & down scales practising by the hour hoping to plunk the guitar strings to the heart trinkle keys to affection in G -Major B-flat lave all dry and wakeful thoughts leave them far behind their veering ...

  • Just Getting Started: Edmonton Public Library's First 100 Years, 1913-2013
    By Todd Babiak

    Novelist, journalist, and Edmontonian Todd Babiak tells the story of EPL's birth and coming of age within the bustling narrative of the growth of city and province.

  • Canadian Television Policy and the Board of Broadcast Governors, 1958-1968
    By Andrew Stewart, William H.N. Hull

    had been appointed by the Liberal Government of Mr. St. Laurent as a member of the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects ( Gordon Commission ) and had met Mr. Pearson first at Walter Gordon's house .

  • Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions
    By Jon Gordon

    Ed. Joseph Pearson. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001. Print. Frankfurt, Harry. “On Bullshit.” Princeton University. Web. 10 Aug. 2010. Fuller, Steve. “Just Bullshit.” Bullshit and Philosophy. Ed. Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch.

  • Echoes in the Halls: An Unofficial History of the University of Alberta
    By Gordon McIntosh, Mary Spencer, Kay Dier

    In December 1981 , Lorrie Pearson was appointed as full - time coordinator and was assisted by Lu Ziola for a couple of years . The PACCR headquarters was moved to the Chemistry Building , physically and symbolically separated from ...

  • Weaving a Malawi Sunrise: A Woman, A School, A People
    By Roberta Laurie

    In the afternoon, the host families came to pick up the Pearson students. Christie sat the families down and with the help of Lucy explained their responsibilities and the expectations of the students. The students would be attending ...

  • Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit
    By Robert Ascah

    New York : Simon and Schuster , 1993 . The Royal Bank of Canada . Annual Report . Montreal : various years . Safarian , A.E. Canada's Economy in the Great Depression . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1957 .

  • Edmonton In Our Own Words
    By Linda Goyette, Carolina Jakeway Roemmich

    Angry citizens demanded Mayor McNamara's resignation and an upstart alderman named Joe Clarke championed their cause . " I'll mop the earth with you ! " Clarke yelled at the mayor at one meeting . “ You haven't got the courage of a rat ...