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  • Expansive Discourses

    Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978

    by Max Foran ...
    Series series The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies
    A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider wider planning constraints and infrastructure costs. Foran examines the complexity of their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Icon, Brand, Myth

    The Calgary Stampede

    Edited by Max Foran ...
    Series series The West Unbound
    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 of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Development Derailed

    Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64

    by Max Foran ...
    In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed a multimillion dollar development project that included retail, office, and convention facilities, along with a major transportation centre. With visions of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife

    Failures of Principle and Policy

    by Max Foran ...
    Series Book 9 - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
    Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of Canada’s government and society to protect wildlife from human exploitation, Max Foran’s The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife argues that a root cause of wildlife depletions and habitat loss is the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology

    How We Find Our Way to a Humane and Environmentally Sane Future

    by Will Anderson ...
    "This Is Hope" is a crossover book for self-identified environmentalists, species rights advocates, vegans and vegetarians, those dedicated to true sustainability, fish and wildlife "management" professionals, students of deep ecology, and those who want to know the biocentric solutions for our dietary, consumer, and reproductive choices. Over a span of three decades, I managed campaigns for ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Peoples of North America

    A Concise Anthropological Overview

    by Robert J. Muckle ...
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  • Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island

    Culture and Belonging in a Fishing Community

    by Joan Marshall ...
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  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
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  • Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

    Policy and Governance in a Changing World

    Edited by Kevin S. Hanna, Douglas A. Clark, D. Scott Slocombe ...
    **This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles. Simultaneously the concept of ecosystem-based management has become broadly accepted and implemented over the last two decades. However, this period has also ... Read more

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  • Placing Animals

    An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations

    by Julie Urbanik ...
    Series series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a ... Read more

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  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
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