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The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine
A 1967 New York City Seminar Featuring Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals
ISBN: 9781772128277
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: December 2, 2025
272 Pages
A new critical edition of a museum seminar report from 1967, featuring Marshall McLuhan and his collaborator Harley Parker.
Crossing Into Canada
Stories from Two Generations of US War Resisters
ISBN: 9781772128284
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: October 23, 2025
272 Pages
Compelling and intimate journeys, told in first person, by two generations of US war resisters who crossed into Canada in search of safe haven.
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta
ISBN: 9781772128239
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: August 5, 2025
320 Pages
Amateur naturalist Frank Farley (1870-1949) made significant contributions to the fields of ornithology and environmental conservation in western Canada.
Harley Parker
The McLuhan of the Museum
ISBN: 9781772127935
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 15, 2025
240 Pages
Genosko uncovers the legacy of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter, and explores his innovative concepts reshaping museums as perceptual laboratories.
Cartographic Poetry
Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps
ISBN: 9781772127997
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
256 Pages
This first book-length study of five maps drawn by Blackfoot and Gros Ventre cartographers in 1801 and 1802 explores the maps’ cartographic conventions, utility, and beauty.
Indigenous Healing as Paradox
Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
ISBN: 9781772125740
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 4, 2025
208 Pages
A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.
The Unpredictable Past?
Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
ISBN: 9781894865692
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: November 5, 2024
474 Pages
Scholars reconceptualize and “decolonize” Russian, Slavic, post-Soviet, East European, and Ukrainian interrelated disciplines in Western scholarship post the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.
For the Public Good
Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities
ISBN: 9781772127423
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 17, 2024
312 Pages
A vision for reforming arts graduate education to deliver many of Canada’s public good needs.
The Riel Problem
Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero
ISBN: 9781772127331
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 28, 2024
344 Pages
Albert Braz examines how Louis Riel has been commemorated since 1967, charting his transformation from traitor to Canadian hero.
The Word and Wax, second edition
A Medical Folk Ritual Among Ukrainians in Alberta
ISBN: 9781894865678
Publisher: CIUS Press
Publication date: January 16, 2024
124 Pages
Explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring as a means of driving away fear and curing minor ailments.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine
A 1967 New York City Seminar Featuring Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals
ISBN: 9781772128277
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: December 2, 2025
272 Pages
Crossing Into Canada
Stories from Two Generations of US War Resisters
ISBN: 9781772128284
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: October 23, 2025
272 Pages
Frank Farley and the Birds of Alberta
ISBN: 9781772128239
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: August 5, 2025
320 Pages
Harley Parker
The McLuhan of the Museum
ISBN: 9781772127935
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 15, 2025
240 Pages
Cartographic Poetry
Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps
ISBN: 9781772127997
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
256 Pages
Indigenous Healing as Paradox
Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
ISBN: 9781772125740
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 4, 2025
208 Pages
The Unpredictable Past?
Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
ISBN: 9781894865692
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: November 5, 2024
474 Pages
For the Public Good
Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities
ISBN: 9781772127423
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 17, 2024
312 Pages
The Riel Problem
Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero
ISBN: 9781772127331
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 28, 2024
344 Pages
The Word and Wax, second edition
A Medical Folk Ritual Among Ukrainians in Alberta
ISBN: 9781894865678
Publisher: CIUS Press
Publication date: January 16, 2024
124 Pages