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Honouring Tradition [Glenbow Museum]

Reframing Native Art

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Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art brings new perspectives to historical and contemporary Aboriginal art.

To explore the diverse ways this art can be understood, the Glenbow Museum invited Aboriginal elders, leaders and artists to share their perspectives with non-Native museum staff. The resulting dialogue highlights the complexity of Aboriginal art from the northern plains to the subarctic regions of Canada. 

Links to tradition, history and culture can be seen in artwork both old and new - from a lavishly beaded mossbag made in the 1890s, to a work created in 2006 by chiseling, drilling, sanding and assembling circuit boards.

The breadth of Aboriginal art in this publication, lavishly documented in more than 65 full-colour photographs, honours the importance of community, the connection to land and place and the tradition of storytelling.

About the Author

The Glenbow Museum has an established reputation for books that accompany their exhibits with aboriginal content in conjunction with native peoples. 

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• 1 copy available  This book is CLAIMED
• Paperback: 152 pages 
• Publisher: Fifth House Books; 1 edition (November 18, 2008) 
• ISBN-10: 189537958X 
• ISBN-13: 978-1895379587

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Smart Curling [Vera Pezer]

Perfect Your Game through Mental Training

 

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Success in curling demands outstanding skill and strategy, but getting and keeping the champion's edge requires even more. Exceptional psychological skill is imperative. Ask the experts.

In Smart Curling, champion Vera Pezer uncovers these secrets for those who are committed to curling excellence. Winner of countless championships, she knows all about "hurrying hard" while keeping her cool to win. From the perspective of competitor and that of sports psychologist, Pezer illustrates how to maximize motivation and concentration while effectively managing stress and distractions. She teaches about self regulators and confidence and outlines the relationship between practice and competition. She helps players understand and practice excellent communication - verbal and nonverbal. And she outlines team dynamics to understand and work with the various personalities and roles of team members and coaches.

Loads of examples and illustrations elucidate the sound theory in Smart Curling while its worksheets (downloadable from the internet) are designed to help players complete the exercises required to perfect their game through mental training.

About the Author 

Vera Pezer, Ph.D, is a four-time Canadian Curling Champion as well as a Scott Tournament of Hearts and Olympic Curling Coach. She is also the author of The Stone Age: A Social History of Curling on the Prairies. She received a Ph.D in sports psychology from the University of Saskatchewan and lives in Saskatoon where she assists athletes from numerous fields with mental training and strategy. Among her many honours, Pezer has been inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. 

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• Paperback: 196 pages   
• Publisher: Fifth House Publishers; 1 edition (August 15, 2008)   
• ISBN-10: 189725203X   
• ISBN-13: 978-1897252031 

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High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine [Cinda Chavich]

High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine by Cinda Chavich

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When Alberta cuisine is mentioned, beef is often the first and only thing to come to mind. In fact, however, Alberta has a wealth of local food products and its producers have won recognition and awards for cheeses, chocolate, corn, grains, oils, game birds and animals, and much more. From mountain to prairie, forest to river, this fertile province overflows with options for the creative cook Journalist and food specialist Cinda Chavich has visited farms, dairies, bakeries, and delis looking for the very best Alberta has to offer. The result is a breathtaking book that combines delicious recipes, beautiful colour photographs, food sources, cooking and shopping tips, and local history. Celebrate the taste and variety of regional cuisine with High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine. There is a world of flavour waiting for you in your own backyard.

Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship [Adrian Peetoom]

Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship by Adrian Peetoom

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Imagine embarking on a two-month ocean adventure to some of the most storied and exotic places on earth: 

from Hamburg through the North Sea, 

the Mediterranean, 

the Suez Canal, 

across the South Pacific to Australia and New Zealand 

across the bottom of Asia to ports in South Korea and China, 

and back!

The world of maritime commerce unfolds before your eyes in bustling ports and historic sea lanes. Aboard ship is a small group of passengers who become part of the shipboard village, mingling with the ship's officers and crew in their floating home away from home, reminiscent of the days when merchant ships carried a few paying passengers from port to port. 

In Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship, Adrian Peetoom recounts his voyages aboard the container ships Ville d'Aquarius and Sydney Star. Adrian and his wife, Johanna, had long been fascinated by cargo ship travel as a way to journey to foreign ports at a much more reasonable cost than the trips offered by large cruise ship companies. After Adrian retired from his publishing career, the couple embarked on two voyages. What Adrian and Johanna experienced will fascinate armchair travellers and those who may be interested in investigating container ship travel for themselves. 

Peetoom's love of the sea informs his narrative, which is in many ways a spiritual, as well as a physical, journey. He reflects on his maritime heritage, instilled in him as a child in his Dutch homeland, and on the significant role his country played as a colonial merchant power. 

Vacation Adventures on a Cargo Ship includes an appendix with helpful tips and booking information for those readers inspired by the book to make further inquiries about container ship travel. 

About the Author

At the age of nineteen Adrian Peetoom emigrated from Holland to Canada on a small freighter converted to emigrant carrier, which pitched and rolled its way across the Atlantic in March 1954. After obtaining a B.A., he began a thirty-one-year career in publishing in 1961. Adrian served in sales and editorial functions and authored a number of professional books for teachers. Always an active participant in Christian church life, he is currently writing a journal account of twelve months in the life of an Anglican parish. Having raised six children, Adrian and his wife Johanna, did very little traveling until after retirement, when they discovered an article on taking passage on container ships. They embarked on the treasured cargo journeys related in this book in 1998 and 2000. Since 2005 Adrian and Johanna have lived in Edmonton, Alberta, close to three lively and literate grandchildren. In addition to their six children the couple have thirteen grandchildren.

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• 2 copies available This book is no longer availabe 
• Paperback: 288 pages 
• Publisher: Fifth House Books; 1 edition (October 25, 2008) 
• ISBN-10: 1897252285 
• ISBN-13: 978-1897252284

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Quiet Revolution West: The Rebirth of Metis Nationalism [John Weinstein]

Quiet Revolution West: The Rebirth of Metis Nationalism by John Weinstein

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A no-holds-barred examination of the issues, events, and personalities that have shaped the historic renaissance of the Métis  Nation in Canada.

"Weinstein has given us a beautiful history of the Métis nation. Quiet Revolution West is a vivid tale of constant struggle and sacrifice. It is a gripping account of political intrigue and brinksmanship that will raise eyebrows in many quarters."  -- From the Foreword by the Right Honourable Paul Martin

When the Manitoba Act of 1870 created the new Province of Manitoba within the Dominion of Canada, it was predominantly a Métis province, yet within a matter of years, the Métis were a dispossessed, displaced, and dispersed people. Weinstein traces Métis aspirations for political autonomy as a unique nation with its own land base in the Canadian federation from the time of Louis Riel until the Kelowna Accord of 2005. He concentrates - in great detail and with deft accounts - on the political maneuvering and constitutional wrangling of the last three decades, cataloguing the contributions and disappointments of colourful Métis leaders. And he provides detailed reviews of legal cases relevant to long-standing Métis claims to land and other rights.

Such rights he places within the context of the world-wide movement among indigenous peoples for greater political autonomy, such as in Central America, and he ends his account with the prospects for self government among the Métis and the forms that such a government might take, given the dispersal of the Métis across Canada. Although the Métis have been recognized in the Constitution as one of the three groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, they remain the landless subjects of the Canadian government, and for this reason Quiet Revolution West is a timely account of resistance.

About the Author

John Weinstein began his work with the Métis political movement in the 1970s and has since acted as advisor to successive Métis leaders, enabling him to participate in and document many of the events depicted in Quiet Revolution West. He accompanied the mercurial leader Harry Daniels to Parliament Hill on the day Métis were recognized in the constitution and later appeared as a witness for the fledgling Métis National Council in its lawsuit against Prime Minister Trudeau over the issue of representation in constitutional negotiations. He has also worked in the investment management business and contributed to a number of Royal Commissions.

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• 2 copies available This book is CLAIMED
• Paperback: 256 pages 
• Publisher: Fifth House Publishers (August 28, 2007) 
• Language: English 
• ISBN-10: 1897252218 
• ISBN-13: 978-1897252215

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