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Dramatic Licence: Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada
	By Louise Ladouceur, Translated by Richard Lebeau ISBN: 978-0-88864-538-8 PB $34.95 The University of Alberta Press Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a particular authority as she moves between two of the dominant cultures of Canada: French and English. Through the analysis of six plays from each linguistic repertoire, written and translated between 1961 and 2000, her award-winning book compares the complexities of a translation process shaped by the power struggle between Canada’s two official languages.

Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics
	Edited by Andrew Clement / Michael Gurstein / Graham Longford / Marita Moll / Leslie Regan Shade ISBN: 978-1-926836-04-1 PB $39.95 AU Press *Connecting Canadians* represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, a cross-disciplinary approach to the mobilization of information and communications technologies (ICT) for community change.

Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada
	By Ted McCoy ISBN: 978-1-926836-96-6 PB $29.95 AU Press Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour. The penitentiary was constructed according to a plan that would harness the energies of the prison population for economic profit. As such, the institution became central to the development of industrial capitalist society. In the 1830s, politicians in Upper Canada embraced the idea of the penitentiary, and the first federal prison, Kingston Penitentiary, opened in 1835.

Restless White Fields
	By Barbara Langhorst ISBN: 978-1-897126-79-0 PB $14.95 NeWest Press How do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits a violent personal tragedy through startling imagery that rends even as it heals. Restless White Fields is unique, unexpected, and impossible to ignore.

*Geographies of a Lover*
	By Sarah de Leeuw ISBN: 978-1-897126-78-3 PB $14.95 NeWest Press Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Réage’s The Story of O and Marian Engel’s Bear, poet Sarah de Leeuw uses the varied landscape of Canada—from the forests of North Vancouver through the Rocky Mountains, the prairies, and all the way to the Maritimes—to map the highs and lows of an explicit and raw sexual journey, from earliest infatuation to insatiable obsession and beyond.

*Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Aboriginal Elders*
	By Dianne Meili, foreward by Emma LaRocque ISBN: 978-1-927063-13-2 PB $24.95 NeWest Press The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices for the betterment of not just their people, but all humankind. First published in 1991, Dianne Meili’s book remains an essential portrait of men and women who have lived on the trapline, in the army, in a camp on the move, in jail, in residential schools, and on the reserve, all the while counselling, praying, fasting, healing, and helping to birth further generations.

*Dance, Gladys, Dance*
	By Cassie Stocks ISBN: 978-1-897126-76-9 PB $19.95 NeWest Press 27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front of her lies the dreary task of finding a real job and figuring out what “normal” people do with their lives. Then, a classified ad in the local paper introduces Frieda to Gladys, an elderly woman who long ago gave up on her dreams of being a dancer. The catch? Gladys is a ghost. In Dance, Gladys, Dance, Cassie Stocks tells the uplifting story of a woman whose uncanny connection with a kindred spirit causes her to see her life in a new way—as anything but ordinary.

*Western Taxidermy*
	Stories by Barb Howard ISBN: 978-1-927063-11-8 PB $19.95 NeWest Press Roadkill stuffed and presented as art, an OB/GYN appointment gone horribly wrong, and government spies with a weakness for salmon bagels and Timmy Ho’s. Tender, satirical, and occasionally absurd, Barb Howard’s new story collection Western Taxidermy is a perfect introduction to one of Western Canada’s most high-spirited literary voices. In these sixteen stories, Howard effortlessly balances wry social commentary and prairie gothic, pairing humans and animals in clever and unexpected ways.

*Union Power: Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara*
	By Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage ISBN: 978-1-926836-78-2 PB $24.95 AU Press From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly diversified economy struggled to improve their lives both inside and outside the workplace.

*Social Democracy After the Cold War*
	Edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt ISBN: 978-1-926836-87-4 PB $29.95 AU Press Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, however, brief. Neither the recurring economic crises of the 2000s nor the ongoing War on Terror was conducive to social democracy, which soon gave way to a prolonged decline in countries where social democrats had once held power.

*How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics*
	Edited by David Taras and Christopher Waddell ISBN: 978-1-926836-81-2 PB $34.95 AU Press Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the Canadian party system has proved surprisingly resilient, the rhythms of political life are now very different. A never-ending 24-hour news cycle has resulted in a never-ending political campaign.

*Paradox Resolution*
	By K. A. Bedford ISBN: 978-1-894063-88-3 PB $14.95 Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Aloysius “Spider” Webb fixes time machines for a living. He hates his job; he hates his life, and hates time travel even more. He simply wants to get on with his life. He’s a hard working Australian bloke — a good man in a bad situation who is willing to do almost anything to regain his self-respect and the affection of his nearly ex-wife, Molly; a mad sculptress on her way to international fame and fortune. Spider’s life and his world are changing.

*Wildcatter*
	By Dave Duncan ISBN: 978-1-894063-90-6 PB $9.95 Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Throughout human history wildcatters, the first great explorers and prospectors to lay claim to newly discovered lands, have marched to the beat of a different drummer — motivated by a deep yearning to be the first to walk on uncharted land and benefit from treasures yet to be discovered. In the future, wildcatters in space will travel to exoplanets, located in The Big Nothing, to search for new chemicals which, when transformed into pharmaceuticals, will bring untold wealth and fame to the individuals and corporations that stake their claim for exclusive exploitation rights.

*More Ontarion Ghost Stories*
	By Maria Da Silva and Andrew Hind ISBN: 978-1-55105-887-0 PB $18.95 Lone Pine Publishing Ontario is haunted--that much is certain. The heartaches and troubles, dreams and fears of past inhabitants live on in the form of restless spirits that are doomed in death to remain forever tied to the places that meant so much to them in life. Here, in this new volume of eerie tales, Maria Da Silva and Andrew Hind provide richly detailed stories that expertly blend eyewitness accounts, folklore and history.

*Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana*
	By Linda Kreitzer ISBN: 978-1-55238-510-4 PB $34.95 University of Calgary Press Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs.

*Civilizing the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert's Land*
	By A.A. den Otter ISBN: 978-0-88864-546-3 PB $49.95 The University of Alberta Press Compiled by a radical journalist and poet in the early days of the French Revolution, these subversively satirical lives of women saints sought to win both women and men away from religion. Though based on authentic hagiography, Maréchal's "new" legendary introduces a skeptical, rationalist perspective that anticipates modern critical approaches. Along with Delany's thorough introduction and notes, Anti-Saints offers a new perspective on the cultural climate of the French Revolution and a strikingly modern contribution to our own public conversation on religion.

*Cross Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada: Content Sharing and the Impact of New Media*
	By Walter C. Soderlund, Colette Brin, Lydia Miljan, Kai Hildebrandt ISBN: 978-0-88864-605-7 PB $34.95 The University of Alberta Press This is the first in-depth analysis of major French- and English-Canadian news companies to show the impact of cross-media ownership on the diversity of new content. Surprisingly, the study lays to rest fears over content convergence of newspaper and television network ownership by Canadian media giants Canwest Global, CTVglobemedia, and Quebecor. Content-sharing between newspaper and television properties of these giant companies did not occur. This leads the authors to examine why, and to assess problems that mass media in Canada will likely face in the coming years, particularly as newsrooms strive to adapt to new media and the online environment.

*Anti-Saints: The New Golden Legend of Sylvain Maréchal*
	Translation and Introduction by Sheila Delany ISBN: 978-0-88864-604-0 PB $34.95 The University of Alberta Press Compiled by a radical journalist and poet in the early days of the French Revolution, these subversively satirical lives of women saints sought to win both women and men away from religion. Though based on authentic hagiography, Maréchal's "new" legendary introduces a skeptical, rationalist perspective that anticipates modern critical approaches. Along with Delany's thorough introduction and notes, Anti-Saints offers a new perspective on the cultural climate of the French Revolution and a strikingly modern contribution to our own public conversation on religion.

*Imagining Ancient Women*
	By Annabel Lyon ISBN: 978-0-88864-629-3 PB $10.95 The University of Alberta Press Annabel Lyon’s passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fiction captivating. She discusses the process of wading through historical sources—and avoiding myriad pitfalls—to craft believable people to whom readers can relate. Finding familiarity with figures from the past and then, with the help of hindsight, discovering their secrets, are the foremost tools of the historical novel writer. Readers interested in the literary creative process and in writing or reading historical fiction will find Lyon’s comments insightful and intriguing.

*continuations 2*
	By Douglas Barbour & Sheila E. Murphy ISBN: 978-0-88864-596-8 PB $19.95 The University of Alberta Press "Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." —Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained (within) these labyrinthine verses does so by virtue of its authors' pitch-perfect collaborative process. For ten years they have kept their song alive via email, pulsing jazz-like variations and haunting repetitions back and forth from Arizona to Alberta, all the while adhering to that taut stanza of six lines.

*33 Million Solitudes*
	By Ali Riley ISBN: 978-1-897181-56-0 PB $15.95 Frontenac House Media Ltd. In her third poetry book for Frontenac House, Ali Riley applies her unique and inventive poetics to our National identity. Breaking down and remixing our familiar icons – for example, The Hudson‘s Bay Company, Susannah Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush – the poet finds that wanderlust, geography, solitude and a thirst for exploration still underlie the Canadian Spirit.

*'tis pity*
	By David Bateman ISBN: 978-1-897181-67-6 PB $15.95 Frontenac House Media Ltd. Part memoir, part creative non-fiction, part poetic score without music, part off Broadway show without a cast, part bungalow for gender dysphoric bachelorettes, ‘Tis Pity is furnished with poems that dart lyrically in and out of each other, bumping like herds of chameleons racing through a self-elegiac labyrinth toward an unspecified finish line.