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Meltdown
The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist
ISBN: 9781772127911
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: June 17, 2025
328 Pages
Meltdown brings intimate storytelling and scientific observation together in a memoir about glaciers and forests, the struggles of academia, and a scientist who just might also be a writer.
Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia
ISBN: 9781772127928
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
272 Pages
Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia shows the ways secularism produces and enables racism and normalizes the racial categorization of “Muslim.”
Alice Munro and the Art of Time
ISBN: 9781772128017
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
320 Pages
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro’s stories.
Harley Parker
The McLuhan of the Museum
ISBN: 9781772127935
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: April 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: April 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.
The Culture Box
Museums as Media
ISBN: 9781772127942
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 13, 2025
256 Pages
The Culture Box reimagines museums as catalysts for cultural engagement and empathy. Parker applies McLuhan's medium theory, advocating for dynamic spaces fostering community participation, dialogue, and critical reflection.
This Sweet Rupture
ISBN: 9781772127973
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 4, 2025
64 Pages
The poems in This Sweet Rupture explore family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and war’s impact on personal narratives while navigating cultural identity as a first-generation Lebanese-Canadian.
When Whales Went Back to the Water
ISBN: 9781772127966
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 13, 2025
64 Pages
Baird’s poems traverse through joy, loss, parenting, domestic violence, and isolation. Steely, tender, and sensual, this collection creates a reverent container for a broken world.
Python Love
ISBN: 9781772127959
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 13, 2025
80 Pages
Python Love is a collection of free verse poetry weaving together experiences of childhood abuse and birth trauma from the perspective of a medical doctor who is also a mother.
Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour
ISBN: 9781772128000
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 4, 2025
88 Pages
Kate Beaton, award-winning author of the graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art.
Meltdown
The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist
ISBN: 9781772127911
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: June 17, 2025
328 Pages
Meltdown brings intimate storytelling and scientific observation together in a memoir about glaciers and forests, the struggles of academia, and a scientist who just might also be a writer.
Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia
ISBN: 9781772127928
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
272 Pages
Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia shows the ways secularism produces and enables racism and normalizes the racial categorization of “Muslim.”
Alice Munro and the Art of Time
ISBN: 9781772128017
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: May 1, 2025
320 Pages
Situated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro’s stories.
Harley Parker
The McLuhan of the Museum
ISBN: 9781772127935
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: April 15, 2025
240 Pages
Cartographic Poetry
Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps
ISBN: 9781772127997
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: April 1, 2025
256 Pages
The Culture Box
Museums as Media
ISBN: 9781772127942
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 13, 2025
256 Pages
The Culture Box reimagines museums as catalysts for cultural engagement and empathy. Parker applies McLuhan's medium theory, advocating for dynamic spaces fostering community participation, dialogue, and critical reflection.
This Sweet Rupture
ISBN: 9781772127973
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: March 4, 2025
64 Pages
The poems in This Sweet Rupture explore family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and war’s impact on personal narratives while navigating cultural identity as a first-generation Lebanese-Canadian.
When Whales Went Back to the Water
ISBN: 9781772127966
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 13, 2025
64 Pages
Python Love
ISBN: 9781772127959
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 13, 2025
80 Pages
Python Love is a collection of free verse poetry weaving together experiences of childhood abuse and birth trauma from the perspective of a medical doctor who is also a mother.
Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour
ISBN: 9781772128000
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Publication date: February 4, 2025
88 Pages
Kate Beaton, award-winning author of the graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art.
