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Book Clouds Over Okotoks

    Book Details:
  • Author : H. Lee Disher
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-27
  • ISBN : 1480930148
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Clouds Over Okotoks written by H. Lee Disher and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clouds Over Okotoks By H. Lee Disher Clouds Over Okotoks explores one young man’s path in pursuit of his inmost desire. Family, friends, the people of Okotoks, the rodeo community, the province of Alberta, geography, and religion all have a share in Tyler Stedman’s determination and spirit, either in supportive favor or with precaution and fear. These are ordinary people leading what seem to be ordinary lives, but the extraordinary and that which is special and precious happen. Clouds Over Okotoks is, ultimately, a celebration of the spirit of the Canadian West.

Book Hiding Amongst the Clouds

Download or read book Hiding Amongst the Clouds written by Laurie Carmichael and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REBECCA HAS A PLAN FOR MURDER ... THE PROBLEM IS, IT’S HER OWN! After learning that the long-term affair between her best friend, Olivia Proctor and her husband, Jake Adams has serious consequences, Rebecca Adam decides to take matters into her own hands. Then suddenly, Rebecca is murdered during the annual Dash for Cash race, and her lifeless body is pushed over the cliff edge into the raging river below. Her body is never found, and her best friend is left holding the smoking gun. As the police investigate they discover that Adams has not only cleverly framed the pair for her murder but has exposed their involvement in two others. During a trip to the small community of Temple, BC, Officer Alex Hiscox believes he has seen the murder victim ... it seems she is living under a false identity. Perhaps their victim is not a victim after all. Now they just need to prove it!

Book Getting from Here to There  Power  Politics and Urban Sustainability in North America

Download or read book Getting from Here to There Power Politics and Urban Sustainability in North America written by Ernest J. Yanarella and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting from Here to There? seeks to take the study of sustainable cities into a realm of analysis and critique that has not been seriously investigated in any explicit and systematic manner: the sphere of power and politics. Using detailed case studies of selected urban sustainability programs-some stillborn or short-lived, others celebrated, still others most promising-it focuses on the political agencies shaping them and the structural elements either impeding or facilitating efforts to build sustainable cities. To accomplish this task, the authors utilize three theories or models of urban power-growth coalition, urban regime, and neo-Gramscian hegemonic-to explore the dynamics of power and politics to better understand these cases and to derive important lessons about getting from here to there. These models offer valuable lessons for ongoing or future sustainable city programs, community or business groups, key policy makers, grassroots organizations, mayors, and urban planners involved in or contemplating moving urban sustainability projects forward, as well as students of urban politics and environmental and sustainability researchers.

Book Focus On  100 Most Popular American Science Fiction Films

Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular American Science Fiction Films written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Life  My Legacy

Download or read book My Life My Legacy written by Kefa Oduor Tuju and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kefa Oduor Tuju passed away too young to an incurable brain tumor in 2018. Leaving behind a loving family, including his wife, Christine, and his two sons, Jonathan and Matthew, Kefa wrote these memoirs as a legacy of the lessons he learned during his life and the wisdom he wished to pass on. In this book, Kefa tells us of his childhood and education in Kenya, finding his faith as a young man, his marriage and family life, his move to Canada, and his final struggle with cancer. Walk alongside Kefa as he shares some of his most intimate thoughts concerning family, faith, life and death. As Kefa honestly describes the challenges and joys of his life’s journey, he shows how his relationship with God allowed him to be victorious even in painful times. This book closes with a chapter by Kefa’s wife, Christine, who gives a passionate summary of how Kefa spent his last days, sharing tributes from his family and close friends. This book is a treasure for anyone who knew Kefa while he was alive... and those who didn’t will, come to know him through these pages. Kefa’s passion for God and family is at the forefront of this book as he describes the best gift he could leave behind: his legacy.

Book More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies

Download or read book More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies written by Andrew W. Nugara and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies contains 49 new routes, in addition to the 65 of the first edition, along with a large collection of full-colour photos and maps. The regions of Waterton, The Castle and Kananaskis are covered comprehensively. Between this edition and Alan Kane's Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies, all of the major, named peaks in Waterton National Park are outlined. The Castle too is thoroughly covered, including a handful of terrific ascents around Middle Kootenay Pass and a new section for multi-peak baggers titled The Ultimate High-Level Ridgewalks. Several scrambles in other areas (Crowsnest, Banff, Highway 93 North and Yoho) are likewise new to this edition. Andrew Nugara outlines several different routes to each summit and includes alternative and easier descents. Encompassing a range of levels of difficulty, the second edition of More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies will appeal to anyone familiar with the first edition of this book and Alan Kane's best-selling, classic guidebook, as well as to hikers looking for a more challenging route to the top of a mountain. In addition to route descriptions, the book contains general information on scrambling, suggested trips for specific conditions, details about each specific area, and single-day, multi-peak trips.

Book Year s Best Fantasy 9

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kage Baker
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2009-08-14
  • ISBN : 1429940182
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Year s Best Fantasy 9 written by Kage Baker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight doses of wonder, including contributions by Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, and Jeffrey Ford. From the distant past to the present day, from Antarctica and Mars to worlds that never were, the tales in this book bring news from nowhere-and everywhere. Fantasy is a mode of storytelling, a method of entertainment, a mode of argument, and a way of seeing. Here, presented by two of the most distinguished anthologists of the day, are twenty-eight stories that see, tell, argue, and entertain. Includes contributions from Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Kage Baker, Daryl Gregory, Lisa Goldstein, Al Michaud, Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, John Brown, Richard Bowes, Kij Johnson, Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, Geoff Ryman, Marc Laidlaw, Liz Williams, James Morrow, Kris Dikeman [as Kristine Dikeman], Randy McCharles, Kage Baker, Richard Parks, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Harland, Howard Waldrop, Delia Sherman, James Stoddard, Stephen Woodworth, Jeffrey Ford, and Kim Wilkins. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Roland Gissing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxwell Foran
  • Publisher : University of Calgary Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 0919813801
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Roland Gissing written by Maxwell Foran and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with a description of the impression Canada made on Gissing upon his arrival in this country in 1913 at the age of 18. Gissing wanted to be a cowboy. He travelled from Alberta to California and back on horseback, sketching and painting as he went. Examples of this early work appear in the book. Gissing began selling his work and supporting himself solely by painting. The author discusses Gissing's technique as his style began to change and how the artist's frame of mind was reflected in his work. There is a good representation of the work of this period in the book. The book concludes with a discussion of Gissing's love of steam locomotives and some details about his time spent building these scale trains. Finally a sampling of paintings of the drastically different seascapes and badlands he was doing in the few years before his death, concludes the pictorial record of Gissing's life and works.

Book 50 Roadside Panoramas in the Canadian Rockies

Download or read book 50 Roadside Panoramas in the Canadian Rockies written by Dave Birrell and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drive through the mountains is always a pleasant experience. Travellers will be able to make the most of their road trips through the Canadian Rockies by keeping Dave Birrell's new pictorial guidebook handy in their glove compartments. Birrell delivers 50 magnificent mountain panoramas taken from highway viewpoints in the Rockies. Interesting historical tidbits accompany the panorama photos, helping the reader identify peaks by name. Read the fascinating stories associated with geographical features such as valleys, lakes and passes and meet some of the individuals who shaped the early history and exploration of the Rockies.

Book Heart Waters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Van Tighem
  • Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1771601396
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Heart Waters written by Kevin Van Tighem and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water does not come from the river. It comes to the river. Heart Waters takes us to the sources of that water - and into the living beauty, human stories and future possibilities that also arise from the green slopes and valleys of Alberta's Eastern Slopes where the Bow River is born. For more than a century ago the foothills and Front Range mountains of western Alberta have been recognized vital to the future water supply for Canada's prairies. Virtually all the water that sustains communities, ecosystems and the economy of prairie Canada comes from this narrow strip of land arrayed along the Continental Divide. For all its importance, however, water management decisions have ignored the importance of land health and focused almost exclusively on building dams. The result, as the author points out, is that the Bow River's annual flows have decreased by more than a tenth, even while spring floods become more frequent and more destructive. The solutions to prairie Canada's water challenges lie in healing the wounded landscapes of our headwaters. Heart Waters delves deeply into the history and ecology of a landscape whose critical value as a watershed is matched by its sheer beauty and diversity. A rich array of stunning photographic imagery by Jasper-based photographer Brian Van Tighem complements the author's well-researched explorations of the stories whispered by the living waters that drain from Banff National Park, Kananaskis Country and the famous ranchlands of the Bow River watershed. Heart Waters is a deep exploration of place, and an invitation to recognize that our water future depends upon knowing our headwaters better and caring for them more passionately - as our heart waters. "We could belong here too," the book concludes. "We could be like the bull trout, the willows, the wary horses: like the river that continually arises from these fine green places where the waters are born. We could find our best selves in the stories of those living waters and the river that gathers them together."

Book The Journal of Weather Modification

Download or read book The Journal of Weather Modification written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Solar Technology

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Thorpe
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-12-04
  • ISBN : 113506914X
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Solar Technology written by David Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solar energy is free, abundant and sustainable, with many methods existing to harness it. This guide is the essential introduction to the subject, explaining how the technologies work, how best they should be employed, and the costs and benefits of using them. It provides detailed yet accessible coverage of: passive solar building solar water heating solar space heating other solar thermal applications (such as cooling and desalination) grid-connected photovoltaics stand-alone photovoltaics. It also introduces the reader to larger scale applications such as concentrating solar power. Highly illustrated in full colour, this is the perfect primer for anyone who wants to work with or simply learn more about solar technologies.

Book Not Your Penance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich
  • Publisher : Demeter Press
  • Release : 2020-06-01
  • ISBN : 1772582948
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Not Your Penance written by Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One quiet October morning, in a suburban neighbourhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, after awakening from a recurring nightmare, 41-year-old stay-at-home mom and social media aficionado Enid Kimble receives two messages—one a disquieting phone call about her mother, and the other a newspaper clipping in a plain envelope in her mailbox—that start to unravel her carefully woven-together world. These two startling messages force Enid to grapple with her past and future in new ways. In a story that weaves together crime, legal drama, romance, adolescence, and motherhood, Enid Kimble struggles to come to terms with her past and makes life-altering decisions about her future. This tense, layered novel debut by lawyer and legal scholar Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, with the gifted and troubled character of Enid at its centre, spins an intriguing story about motherhood, love, law, coming to terms with the complexities of our pasts, and claiming our futures. In doing so, the author offers invigorating and original engagements with law, mythology, feminism, and motherhood that will resonate with legal professionals, academics, and the general public alike. Poignant and funny, the story weaves together scrupulously accurate legal narrative and compelling personal drama.

Book The Erratics

Download or read book The Erratics written by Vicki Laveau-Harvie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters reckon with their toxic parents through the decline and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and with the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty in this award-winning “brilliantly-written memoir... [that] reads like a novel” (best-selling author Margaret Atwood via Twitter). When her elderly mother is hospitalized unexpectedly, Vicki Laveau-Harvie and her sister travel to their parents' ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, they are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years their mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and making him a virtual prisoner in his own home. Rearranging their lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father cope with the unending manipulations of their mother and encounter all the pressures that come with caring for elderly parents. And at every step they have to contend with their mother, whose favorite phrase during their childhood was: "I'll get you and you won't even know I'm doing it." Set against the natural world of the Canadian foothills ("in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal"), this memoir—at once dark and hopeful—shatters precedents about grief, anger, and family trauma with surprising tenderness and humor.

Book Alberta History

Download or read book Alberta History written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book High River and the Times

Download or read book High River and the Times written by Paul Voisey and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern Alberta. Under the ownership of the Charles Clark family for over 60 years, the Times established itself as the epitome of the rural weekly press in Alberta. Even Joe Clark, the future prime minister, worked for the family business. While historians rely heavily on local newspapers to write about rural and small town life, Paul Voisey has studied the influence of the Times on shaping the community of High River. Foreword by Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, PC CC.

Book Calgary

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Brybycin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780919029323
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Calgary written by George Brybycin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: