In the prairies, the small town rests comfortably in our memories as a setting of childhood innocence, good neighbours and stability. By following the development of "Main Streets" in nine Alberta towns, Wetherell and Kmet present a detailed record of a largely vanished way of life.

Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta,

History

Wetherell Ph.D., Dr. Donald G.

Wetherell, Donald, G.

Kmet, Irene, R.A.

Americas

The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press

Evil, despair, and helplessness are persistent themes in recent young-adult fiction. Yet this bleakness needs not translate into depression and fear for vulnerable adolescents. Westwater reads six young-adult novels through Kristevan theory to find a glimmer of hope amidst our cultural crises.

Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction (The University of Alberta Press)

Literature & Fiction

Westwater, Martha

United States

Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural and small town life, Paul Voisey has studied the influence of the Times on shaping the community of High River. Originally, the Times boostered High River as "bustling and modern," and then later as "small and friendly." After WWII, with the help of the Times, High River constructed a mythical image as a ranching district with a wild and colourful past.

High River and the Times: An Alberta Community and Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966 (Alberta Reflections (Inactive))

Arts & Photography

Voisey, Paul

History & Criticism

A pioneer in kidney transplantation in Canada in the late 1950s, Dr. John Dossetor was faced with making many ethical decisions in his ground-breaking research and practice in nephrology so it was with much personal experience that he embraced the study of medical ethics in his later years. His medical career spans decades of change as modern technology made possible more complex treatment situations. His observations on his own distinguished career in medicine from his perspective as a bioethicist are instructive and informative.

Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics (The University of Alberta Press)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dossetor, John B.

Professionals & Academics

Alberta is well known for its fossil treasures, and author John Acorn is as keen on the long-dead creatures of Alberta as he is on the living. Here, John features 80 of the most noteworthy fossils, fossil locations, and fossil hunters from this most palaeontological of provinces. There's more to the story of "deep Alberta" than dinosaurs, but dinosaur fans will find all their favourite beasts here as well -- from Edmontosaurus to Tyrannosaurus rex, and everything in-between. Then there are the surprises, such as the world's oldest pike, the discovery of a venomous mammal, and the fossils found in such unlikely places as Edmonton and Calgary. Prepared with the collaboration of palaeontologists around Alberta, and the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, this is a book that is long overdue, and that deserves a place on everyone's bookshelf.

Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs (The University of Alberta Press)

Children's Books

Acorn, John

Science, Nature & How It Works

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