The Book Publisher’s Association of Alberta has released the 2020 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Shortlist, including six UCalgary Press Books! The Red Chesterfield for Best Trade Fiction Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts for Best Trade Nonfiction Air Salt: A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall for the Robert Kroetsch Award for […]
Earl Wiseman, co-author of Fishing for a Solution: Canada’s Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013, published by University of Calgary Press, passed away in Ottawa on April 8. Deeply experienced in Canada’s foreign fisheries policy and Canada-EU fisheries relations, Earl spent much of his career in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, where he […]
Open UP: The University Pres Community Opens Resources to Support Learning and Research The University Press community is opening a wide variety of resources, books, and journals to support student learning and scholarly research in these difficult times. More than 80 publishers have contributed information about those open or free access materials. The University […]
The University of Calgary Press is celebrating 10 years of Open Access! The University of Calgary Press published its first Open Access book in 2010. From that moment forward, the Press embraced Open Access as part of our mandate and as a vitally important tool to share scholarship with the world. Throughout 2020 we are […]
The Red Chesterfield is now available in braille transcription. The University of Calgary Press is honoured to partner with the National Network for Equitable Library Service Braille Publication Project to produce a braille transcription of Wayne Arthurson’s The Red Chesterfield The new transcription is available as both an embossed volume and electronic braille files (BRF) […]
We are saddened to learn of the death Dr. John George Packer, professor, scholar, and unparalleled author of Vascular Plants of Alberta. Dr. Packer was Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. For thirty years, he pursued his interests in the taxonomy of Arctic and Alpine plants. His […]
Exhibit by Paul Zits reviewed at AlbertaViews Magazine! Check it out here: http://ow.ly/mGIp50x1IEp
Wayne Arthurson’s The Red Chesterfield is one of 49th Shelf’s Buzzed About New Books!
Join us in the beautiful TFDL Gallery Hall on Thursday, September 5th to celebrate the launch of Protest and Democracy. Editors Moises Arce and Roberta Rice present their new collection and explore the intended—and unintended—ways the 2011 protest cycle influenced, and continues to influence, political dynamics throughout the world. Free and open to all, this […]
The Romans get bad press when it comes to literature . . . but Clem Martini brings expert knowledge of Roman Theatre and a keen eye for a good story to his fascinating historical novel The Comedian. Check out a review in AlbertaViews!