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*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.

*Any Bright Horse*
	By Lisa Pasold ISBN: 978-1-897181-55-3 PB $15.95 Frontenac House Media Ltd. When Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese he whiled away his year in prison by dictating a memoir, the Livre des Merveilles. Polo’s Book of Wonders became a raging best seller before printing presses even existed–Christopher Columbus travelled with his own carefully-annotated copy. Poet Lisa Pasold takes Polo’s stories about Afghanistan, Russia, and China to speculate on the transformative effect of journeys, especially upon those who insist on finding marvels.

*Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy*
	Edited by Raphael Foshay ISBN: 978-1-926836-46-1 PB $34.95 AU Press Valences of Interdisciplinarity presents essays by an international array of scholars committed to enhancing our understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and the practical realities of interdisciplinary teaching and research. What is, and what should be, motivating our reflections on (and practice of) approaches that transcend the conventional boundaries of discipline? And in adopting such transdisciplinary approaches, how do we safeguard critical methods and academic rigour?

*The Metabolism of Desire: The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti*
	Translated by David R. Slavitt ISBN: 978-1-926836-84-3 PB $16.95 AU Press All pale beside my lady whose lovely face and gentle heart show the unworthiness of him who catches a glimpse of her perfection, for she is an earthly vessel of heaven's grace before whose greatness we are so much less, beyond any redemption. The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the "sweet new style" that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence.

*Weird And Wild Vancouver*
	By Harrison Mooney ISBN: 978-1-926700-11-3 PB $34.95 Blue Bike Books Vancouver is one of Canada's youngest cities and widely considered its most beautiful. The coastal city got its start when a down-on-his-luck squatter built a saloon to serve thirsty loggers. Since that time, a truly world-class metropolis has sprouted from those humble beginnings. With a start like that, it's no wonder Vancouver's history is littered with the weird and wild.

*dear Hermes...*
	By Michelle Smith ISBN: 978-0-88864-597-5 PB $19.95 The University of Alberta Press 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. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles—her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more—exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes... offers readers an escape and an entrance—out of time and into the poet's luminous experience.

*Baba's Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada*
	By Michael Mucz ISBN: 978-0-88864-514-2 PB $34.95 The University of Alberta Press Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in *Baba's Kitchen Medicines*. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify readers from all walks of life.

*Goddess: Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe*
	By Sheri-D Wilson ISBN: 978-1-897181-60-7 PB $19.95 Frontenac House *Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe* transports you into the “now” of metaphysical possibility, to fly between solitude and wild abandon, from Buddha blink to cosmic flare. At once organic, spiritual and technical, Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe uses QR codes to send readers outside the book to new vantage points.

*Pursuing China: Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer*
	By Brian L. Evans ISBN: 978-0-88864-600-2 PB $34.95 The University of Alberta Press Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution; the post-Mao transformation of China; Canada’s relations with China; the cultural impact of the overseas Chinese community on the Canadian Prairies; development of China studies in Canada and elsewhere; the current impact of China on Canadian higher education; and recent Chinese history seen within a broader context.

*Wells*
	By Jenna Butler ISBN: 978-0-88864-6067-4 PB $19.95 The University of Alberta Press Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form that positively crackles with imagery and rhythm. Identities and memories flow and flicker as she strings together fragments of narrative into stories that comprise one woman's life. It entwines her disappearing life with that of the persona of the woman's granddaughter through a choreographed confusion of identities: of she's and I's. Few poets could execute this with convincing solemnity, while simultaneously recovering the dignity of the sufferer and her loved ones. Butler does. Poetry lovers, critics and scholars, and readers who crave a deft style charged with honest emotion should read Wells.
Working People in Alberta: A History
	By Alvin Finkel with contributions by Jason Foster, Winston Gereluk, Jennifer Kelly, Dan Cui, James Muir, Joan Schiebelbein, Jim Selby and Eric Strikwerda ISBN: 978-1-926836-58-4 PB $41.95 AU Press Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who have toiled in Alberta over the centuries. In so doing, it seeks to counter the view of Alberta as a one-class, one-party, one-ideology province, in which distinctions between those who work and those who own are irrelevant.
Small Space Gardening for Canada
	By Laura Peters ISBN: 978-1-55105-860-3 PB $24.95 Lone Pine Publishing Whether you have just a patio, rooftop or windowsill, you can grow pretty flowers and tasty vegetables anywhere, even in our Canadian climate. Focused on urban gardening in small spaces, and specifically for city dwellers who garden on balconies, patios, decks, teeny-tiny townhouse yards, stairwells and wherever else they can find, this book features all you need to know to grow annuals, perennials and edibles in the big city.
Lifeworth: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Networth
	By Dana Couillard & Hal Couillard ISBN: 978-1-926832-08-1 PB $19.95 Kingsley Publishing Find inspiration in the stories of ten Canadians who reveal how they create passion and purpose in their journeys through life! You have reached a point in your life where things are comfortable; you begin to wonder “Is this all there is?” “Am I living the life I was meant to live?” Discover new ways to increase purpose and meaning in your life. Learn how you can move out of your “comfort zone” and create “peak experiences” that will allow you to live life to the fullest for yourself and for others.
Revisioning Europe: The Films of John Berger and Alain Tanner
	By Jerry White ISBN: 978-1-555238-550-0 PB $34.95 University of Calgary Press Revisioning Europe is among the few existing English-language discussions of the films made by British novelist John Berger and Swiss film director Alain Tanner. It brings to light a political cinema that was unsentimental about the possibilities of revolutionary struggle and unsparing in its critique of the European left, and at the same time optimistic about the ability of radicalism - and radical art - to transform the world. Jerry White argues that Berger and Tanners work is preoccupied with ideas that were both central to the Enlightenment and at the same time characteristically Swiss.
13
	By Alexis Kienlen ISBN: 978-1-897181-53-9 PB $15.95 Frontenac House 13 creatively examines beauty and darkness in many arenas including the workings of bee hive, board games, childhood depression, the personal lives of monsters and a failed romantic relationship in a beautiful Canadian city. The poems of 13 find humanity and beauty within horror and despair, hope, humour and light within darkness.
Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti
	By Adam Melnyk ISBN: 978-1-897181-50-8 PB $19.95 Frontenac House Visual Orgasm showcases the history of Canadian graffiti and its American inspiration, featuring Canadian graffiti artists and images of the last thirty years. The foreword is by graffiti legend Zephyr, known for his graffiti in New York in the 1980s. Author Adam Melnyk is recognized as the leading authority on Canadian graffiti, having collected images on his site, now http://www.visualorgasm.com since 1998. By day, he works with low-income families and the homeless.
In This Place: Calgary 2004 - 2011
	Photographs by George Webber / Words by Aritha Van Herk ISBN: 978-1-897181-59-1 PB $19.95 Frontenac House In this Place… is about Calgary. But it is not the customary view, the postcard tourist view, the souvenir view, the view that lies solely on the surface, oblivious or indifferent to the life that unfolds below that surface, and beyond. This book is about the images, both written and graphic, of the themes that define the city.
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
	Edited by Elizabeth Burge, Chere Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson ISBN: 978-1-926836-20-1 PB $19.95 AU Press Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts towards flexibility. The collection is international in scope, drawing on the experience of specialists in distance education from North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, and Japan.

*House of Spells*
	By R. Pepper Smith ISBN: 978-1-897126-87-5 PB $18.95 NeWest Press Robert Pepper-Smith's graceful new novel follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for self-confidence, acceptance, and love in a small village in southeastern British Columbia. When Rose becomes pregnant, the mysterious and childless Giacomo family, whose wealth is well-known in the community, offers to adopt the child. As Rose wrestles with the decision to give up her baby, Lacey recounts her efforts to help her friend and the unsettling discoveries she makes along the way. With gentle humour and righteous anger, Lacey faces the destructive forces of greed and realizes her own capacity for courage and love.

*Malabarista: A Detective Lane Mystery*
	By Garry Ryan ISBN: 978-1-897126-89-9 Price: $18.95 NeWest Press Garry Ryan follows up Smoked with his most revelatory Detective Lane mystery yet. While under investigation by the Calgary Police Department, Lane finds himself fighting for his career. Then, when an Eastern European war criminal winds up dead in the city, and his partner Arthur is diagnosed with cancer, Lane must contend with dangerous criminals, broken allegiances, pressure from his superiors, a determined bomber, and the very real fear of losing the person he cares for most of all.

*Witness To A Conga And Other Plays*
	By Stewart Lemoine ISBN: 978-1-897126-86-8 Price: $19.95 NeWest Press "In 2008, Teatro La Quindicina returned to the Edmonton Fringe with a buoyant new Stewart Lemoine comedy, Happy Toes. While light on its feet, Lemoine's exploration of happiness, what it means to have a sense of possibility and what it means to lose it, had a palette that didn't shy away from sad and wistful shades. These rich, warm nuances reappeared in The Oculist's Holiday (2009) and Witness to a Conga (2010), where comedy, regret, sadness, disappointment, and desperation come together to reveal an emotional amplitude and maturity that gives 'comedy' complex new dimensions." – Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal

*In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing*
	Essays by Roy Miki ISBN: 978-1-897126-93-6 Price: $24.95 NeWest Press In this collection of essays edited by the University of Guelph’s Smaro Kambourelli, Roy Miki—poet, scholar, and member of the Order of Canada—investigates the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, and cultural practices facing Asian Canadians today through the connections of place and identity that have been forged through our developing national literature.

*Business As Usual*
	A mystery by Michael Boughn ISBN: 978-1-897126-91-2 Price: $22.95 NeWest Press David Sanders is a penniless poet struggling to hold onto his lowly teaching position in his university's English department. When his girlfriend, botany professor Claire Dumont, receives an invitation from an old friend to investigate a mystery at his vineyard in Niagara wine country, David convinces her to let him tag along. But what starts out as a lark – a chance to escape their stuffy offices and play Nick and Nora Charles – soon puts these amateur sleuths on the trail of a conspiracy far more complicated and deadly than those old mystery novels ever led them to expect.

*The Grads Are Playing Tonight!*
	By M. Ann Hall ISBN: 978-0-88864-602-6 Price: $29.95 The University of Alberta Press Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women’s basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they crossed the Atlantic three times to defend their world title at exhibition games held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Meticulously researched and documented—including capsule biographies of all 38 women who played for the Grads over the years and over 100 photos—the story of the Edmonton Grads will enthrall fans of sport history and women in sport. [CTV interview: http://tinyurl.com/6pxg5aq]

*Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 From 1950 to 1990*
	By Jason Russell ISBN: 978-1-926836-43-0 Price: $16.95 AU Press In Our Union, Jason Russell argues that the union local, as an institution of working-class organization, was a key agent for the Canadian working class as it sought to create a new place for itself in the decades following World War II. Using UAW/CAW Local 27, a broad-based union in London, Ontario, as a case study, he offers a ground-level look at union membership, including some of the social and political agendas that informed union activities.

*After Appropriation: Explorations in Intercultural Philosophy and Religion*
	Edited by Morny Joy ISBN: 978-1-55238-502-9 Price: $34.95 University of Calgary Press While there have been a number of specialized books in the field of comparative philosophy, and many in the field of comparative religion, there are few scholars who can address both disciplines. A unique workshop held at the University of Calgary in 2007 marked the beginning of an interdisciplinary project to bring together scholars from both fields for discussion on a regular basis. After Appropriation consists of thirteen essays stemming from the workshop, each of which addresses an issue or illustrates a problem in the interdisciplinary field of comparative religion and philosophy as it is presently conceived.

*Cover And Uncover: Eric Cameron*
	Edited by Ann Davis ISBN: 978-1-55238-534-0 Price: $49.95 University of Calgary Press Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. Over the years Cameron has also continued to work in his primary medium, painting, but moved from traditional figuration to a highly conceptual practice with both his process paintings and his "thick" paintings. He has also expanded into video and has written a great deal about his work. His inspired teaching and unusual art have been recognized with major awards, including the Victor Lynch-Staunton Award (1993), the Gershorn Iskowitz Prize (1994), and the Governor General's Award (2004).