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Virginia Vandall-Walker is an assistant professor inthe Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Athabasca University, andadjunct assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing, University ofAlberta. Her research interests include patient education aboutprostate surgery, family nursing in critical care, nursing supporttheory development, and end-of-life family caregiving.

Robin C. Whittaker is completing doctoral work at theGraduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. He haswritten extensively on theatre in Canada and has taught, directed, anddramaturged at universities across the country.

Investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 days every July. This work contains essays which examine a facet of the experience - from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. It also reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary.

Reveals the geography, wildlife, and natural history of northeastern Saskatchewan as well as the business and social interactions between people. This book offers a look at the vanished subsistence and commercial economy of the boreal forest, based on the personal story of person who was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, and game guardian.

Robert W. Sandford is the author or editor of over 20books on the nature, history, and culture of the Canadian West. He isthe Canadian Chair of the United Nations International Decade¿Water for Life, ¿ an initiative that aims to advancelong-term water quality and availability issues in response to climatechange in Canada and abroad. He is also an Honorary Member of theAssociation of Canadian Mountain Guides. He lives in Canmore, Alberta.

On March 15, 1939, the author's father snatched the last exit visa from a distracted clerk to get his wife and child out of Prague. This work offers a narrative of suffering and rescue, survivor guilt, and overcoming obstacles to intergenerational dialogue about a traumatic past.

Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group of extraordinary oncology nurses - the nurses their peers would choose to have care for them if they were diagnosed with cancer.

John Leigh Walters has spent much of his life writing, producing, and hosting television programs in both Canada and theUnited States.

A collection of poems that shows readers the connections between Canadian nature (even within city limits) and the sublime, especially in the overwhelming silence we can sense outdoors.

Part of a series of books of poetry on dream and its relation to actuality, Dreamwork is an exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. The poems explore past, present, and future in places from Canada through New Jersey, New York, and New England to-- England and Europe as part of the speaker's journey. A typology of home and displacement, of natural beauty and industrial scars unfold in the movement...