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Imagining Head-Smashed-In Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and…
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- 978-1-897425-04-6
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- 6.5 x 9.25, 361 pages
Icon, Brand, Myth The Calgary Stampede
An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1923, archetypal “Cowboys and Indians” are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience—from the images on advertising posters to the ritual …
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- N 978-1-897425-05-3
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- The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
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Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Proceedin…
Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of optical methods ranging from traditional ph…
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- 978-3-319-06986-9
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- IX, 421
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- Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
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- 621.366 ADV a
Advanced and Intelligent Computations in Diagnosis and Control
This book is devoted to the demands of research and industrial centers for diagnostics, monitoring and decision making systems that result from the increasing complexity of automation and systems, the need to ensure the highest level of reliability and safety, and continuing research and the development of innovative approaches to fault diagnosis. The contributions combine domains of engineerin…
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- 978-3-319-23180-8
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- XVI, 426
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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- 006.3 ADV a
An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal The Court Martial of Major General Henr…
Previously beyond the reach of most North American scholars, the minutes of Procter’s trial offer a wealth of historical detail about British imperial, Canadian pre-Confederation, and American frontier history. Transcribed and annotated here for the first time, they provide engrossing insights into Procter’s retreat from what is now southwestern Ontario in the early autumn of 1813. Interspe…
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- 9781771993203
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- 6 x 9, 454 pages
Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy: Applications to Nanomaterials
This book highlights the current understanding of materials in the context of new and continuously emerging techniques in the field of electron microscopy. The authors present applications of electron microscopic techniques in characterizing various well-known & new nanomaterials. The applications described include both inorganic nanomaterials as well as organic nanomaterials.
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- 978-3-319-15177-9
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- XII, 272
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- 540.1 ADV a
Governing Educational Spaces: Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in Transition
The governance of education in many countries and regions of the world is currently in transition, challenging histories, remaking subjectivities and shaping possible futures. This book provides an up to date analysis and discussion of the cutting edge theme of educational governance from an international comparative perspective. The volume explores the landscape of educational governance in it…
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- 2214-9899
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- VIII, 228
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Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine Rival Images of a New World in 1930s V…
Vancouver’s municipal government entered into contractual relationships with dozens of private businesses, tendering bids for meals in much the same fashion as for printing jobs and construction projects. As a result, entrepreneurs clamoured to get their share of the state spending. With the emergence of work relief camps, the provincial government harnessed the only currency that homeless me…
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- 9781926836287.01
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- Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
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Advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Applications
This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the instrumental principles of multi-dimensional time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and typical applications of the technique. Written by an originator of the technique and by sucessful users, it covers the basic principles of the technique, its interaction with optical imaging methods and its application to a wide range of experimen…
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- 978-3-319-14929-5
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- XXIII, 624
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- Springer Series in Chemical Physics
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- 540.1 ADV a
Advanced Technologies for Protein Complex Production and Characterization
This book presents advanced expression technologies for the production of protein complexes. Since complexes lie at the heart of modern biology, the expression, purification, and characterization of large amounts of high-quality protein complexes is crucial for the fields of biomedicine, biotechnology, and structural biology. From co-expression in E. coli, yeast, mammalian and insect cells to c…
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- 978-3-319-27216-0
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- XIII, 382
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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- 574.75 ADV a
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