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The Beaver Hills Country A History of Land and Life
This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver Hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates how climate, water levels, wildlife, vegetation, and fire have shaped the possibilities and prov…
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- 9781897425374.01
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- 264 pages
Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flo…
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- 7 x 10, 565 pages
The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow Ghettos du…
Selama Perang Dunia II, Jerman menempatkan orang Yahudi di Polandia yang diduduki Nazi ke dalam ghetto yang membatasi pergerakan mereka dan, yang paling penting untuk kelangsungan hidup mereka, akses ke makanan. Orang Jerman melihat orang Yahudi sebagai "pemakan yang tidak berguna", dan menolak makanan yang cukup untuk bertahan hidup. Kelaparan yang diakibatkan oleh kelaparan yang disengaja ini…
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- 9781009105293
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- T 940.5318 SIN a c.1
Northern Love An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creek).
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- 145 pages
Northern Love An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creek).
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- Cultural Dialectics
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- 145 pages
Mountain Masculinity The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in …
In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the industrialized w…
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- 237 pages
Lost Tracks Buffalo National Park, 1909–1939
While contemporaries and historians alike hailed the establishment of Buffalo National Park in Wainwright, Alberta as a wildlife saving effort, the political climate of the early twentieth century worked against its efforts to stem the decline of the plains buffalo in North America. However, the branch charged with operating the park, the Canadian Parks Branch, was never sufficiently funded and…
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- 9781897425107.01
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- 193 pages
The Beaver Hills Country A History of Land and Life
This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver Hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates how climate, water levels, wildlife, vegetation, and fire have shaped the possibilities and prov…
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- 978-1-897425-37-4
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- 264 pages
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change on the Olympic Peninsula, …
This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of changing forest composition and fire over the last 14,000 years. The focus of this study is on the authors’ studies of five pollen records from the Olym…
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- 978-3-319-11014-1
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Landscape in the Longue Durée : A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled…
Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles extend inland and create a ridge brushing against the sky? Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological research project of the east Devon Pebblebed heathlands, a fascinating and geologically unique l…
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- 978- 1- 78735- 081- 6
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