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The art of relevance
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Simon, Nina
- Publisher
- Santa Cruz, Calif. : Museum 2.0
- Call Number
- 00 Si5t
- Author
- Simon, Nina
- Publisher
- Santa Cruz, Calif. : Museum 2.0
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 191 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Museums
- Art galleries
- Arts and Culture
- Engagement
- Abstract
- What do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in common? They are all fighting for relevance in an often indifferent world. The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Unlocking relevance -- 1. What is relevance? -- A walk on the beach -- Meaning, effort, bacon -- Something old, something new -- Two delusions about relevance -- A note on irrelevance -- 2. Outside in. -- People who don't normally show up -- Start at the front door -- Some doors are invisible -- Dumbing it down -- Whose room is this? -- The people in the room -- Go outside -- Inside-outsiders -- Otherizing outsiders -- Outsider guides -- Outside institutions -- Making room -- 3. Relevance and community. How do you define community? -- Finding your people -- Wants and needs -- Needs and assets -- Community-first program design -- Relevance for one -- Relevance for everyone -- Build a door or change the room? -- Building a bigger room -- 4. Relevance and mission. Steady in the storm -- A hunt for relevance -- Relevance is a moving target for institutions -- Relevance is a moving target for content -- You can make boring things relevant -- The ugliest painting on the block -- Proactive relevance -- Content versus form -- Old plays, new forms, new audiences -- Co-creating relevance -- Getting past the pretty fish -- One core, many doors -- 5. The heart of relevance. Part ex-con, part farmer, part queen -- Measuring relevance -- Transformative relevance -- Empathetic evangelists -- A great treasure.
- ISBN
- 9780692701492
- Accession Number
- 2024.06
- Call Number
- 00 Si5t
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The boreal herbal : wild food and medicine plants of the North
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26221
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
- Author
- Gray, Beverley
- Publisher
- Whitehorse, Yukon : Aroma Borealis Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 440 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Contents
- Part I: Getting started -- Part II: Plant profiles -- Part III: Preparations and recipes -- Part IV: Economics -- Part V: For reference.
- Notes
- Many of the plants included in this publication can be found in the Canadian Rockies.
- ISBN
- 9780986827105
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 02.7 G78b
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teaching of plants
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25485
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
- Author
- Wall Kimmerer, Robin
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 390 pages ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Traditional Knowledge
- Science
- Botany
- Abstract
- As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
- Contents
- Planting Sweetgrass ; Skywoman falling ; The council of pecans ; The gift of strawberries ; An offering ; Asters and goldenrod ; Learning the grammar of animacy ; Tending Sweetgrass. Maple sugar moon ; Witch hazel ; A mother's work ; The consolation of water lilies ; Allegiance to gratitude ; Picking Sweetgrass ; Epiphany in the beans ; The three sisters ; Wisgaak Gokpenagen : a black ash basket ; Mishkos Kenomagwen : the teachings of grass ; Maple nation : a citizenship guide ; The honorable harvest ; Braiding Sweetgrass ; In the footsteps of Nanabozho: becoming indigenous to place ; The sound of silverbells ; Sitting in a circle ; Burning cascade head ; Putting down roots ; Umbilicaria : the belly button of the world ; Old-growth children ; Witness to the rain ; Burning Sweetgrass ; Windigo footprints ; The sacred and the superfund ; People of corn, people of light ; Collateral damage ; Shkitagen : People of the seventh fire ; Defeating Windigo ; Epilogue: Returning the gift
- ISBN
- 978-1-57131-356-0
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 W15b
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Canadian law and indigenous self-determination : a naturalist analysis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25724
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
- Author
- Christie, Gordon
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- vi, 440 pages ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority. Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination demonstrates how, over the last few decades, Canadian law has attempted to remove Indigenous sovereignty from the Canadian legal and social landscape. Adopting a naturalist analysis, Gordon Christie responds to questions about how to theorize this legal phenomenon, and how the study of law should accommodate the presence of diverse perspectives. Exploring the socially-constructed nature of Canadian law, Christie reveals how legal meaning, understood to be the outcome of a specific society, is being reworked to devalue the capacities of Indigenous societies. Addressing liberal positivism and critical postcolonial theory, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination considers the way in which Canadian jurists, working within a world circumscribed by liberal thought, have deployed the law in such a way as to attempt to remove Indigenous meaning-generating capacity. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Setting the stage -- Canadian law and its puzzles -- Differing understandings and the way forward -- Remarks on theorizing and method -- Problems with theorizing about the law -- Liberal positivism and aboriginal rights -- Characterizing and defining 'existing' aboriginal rights -- The place of aboriginal rights in Canada -- Postcolonial theory and aboriginal law.
- ISBN
- 9781442628991
- Accession Number
- P2023.12
- Call Number
- 07.2 C46c
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The carbon cycle : crossing the Great Divide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26209
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
- Author
- Rawles, Kate
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 336 pages ; 15 cm
- Abstract
- In 2006 “outdoor philosopher” Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska, following the spine of the Rocky Mountains as closely as possible. Cycling across unforgiving but starkly beautiful landscapes in both the United States and Canada – deserts, high mountain passes, glaciers and eventually down to the sea – she encountered bears, wolves, moose, cliff-swallows, aspens and a single, astonishing lynx. Along the way, she talked to North Americans about climate change – from truck drivers to politicians – to find out what they knew about it, whether they cared, and if they did, what they thought they could do. Kate tells the story of a trip in which she has to deal with the rigours of cycling for ten hours a day in temperatures often in excess of 100° F, fighting punctures, endless repairs and inescapable, grinding fatigue … . But in recounting the physical struggle of such a journey, she also does constant battle with her own ideas and assumptions, helping us to cross the great divide between where we are on climate change and where we need to be. Can we tackle climate change while still keeping our modern Western lifestyles intact? Should we put biofuel in our camper vans and RVs? Or do we need much deeper shifts in lifestyles, values and worldviews? -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781927330777
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 02.8 R21c
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Common spiders of North America
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25514
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Bradley, Richard A.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press
- Call Number
- 04 B72c
- Author
- Bradley, Richard A.
- Responsibility
- Illustrations by Steve Buchanan
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- x, 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Spiders
- Arachnida
- North America
- Abstract
- Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification by web type and other observable details, and species descriptions include identification tips, typical habitat, geographic distribution, and behavioral notes. A concise illustrated introduction to spider biology and anatomy explains spider relationships. This book is a critical resource for curious naturalists who want to understand this ubiquitous and ecologically critical component of our biosphere. -- from back cover
- ISBN
- 9780520315310
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04 B72c
- Location
- Reading Room
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Confessions of a ski bum : Kicking Horse Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25506
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 125 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A modern backcountry ski guide for day trips in the Kicking Horse Pass area found at the border of Banff and Yoho National Parks. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps for everything from tree skiing to no fall glacier descents. -- from back cover
- Contents
- North Side
- Mount Bosworth Closure
- Bath Exit Valley
- Padget Peak
- Ogden South
- Ogden North
- South Side
- Great Divide Creek
- Narrao & Popes Peaks
- Cathedral
- Collier Peak
- Mount Victoria, North Summit
- ISBN
- 9780991748525
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23k
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Confessions of a ski bum : the Icefields Parkway Lake Louise to Bow Summit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25505
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 B23i
- Author
- Baranow, Marcus
- Publisher
- Lake Louise, Alberta : Get to the Mountains Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 251 pages
- Series
- Confessions of a Ski Bum
- Abstract
- A modern backcountry ski guide for the roadside areas found along The Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. Includes detailed descriptions, directions, terrain photos and maps of hundreds of options from chill yoyo laps to committing, no fall, ski lines.-- from back cover
- Contents
- East Side ; Hector South Ridge ; Hector South Peak ; Mount Hector Roadside ; Hector Pass ; Noseeum Creek ; Mosquito Creek ; Helen Creek ; Helen Shoulder ; Crystal Ridge Roadside ; Crystal Ridge Backside ; Cirque Forepeak ; Observation Sub Peak ; Observation Peak ; The Pulpit Knobs ; Pulpit 1 Knob ; Pulpit 2 Knob ; Pulpit 3 Knob ; Pulpit 4 Knob ; Pulpit 5 Knob ; Pulpit 6 Knob ; Bow Peak Roadside ; Crowfoot Pass ; Bow Lakeside ; Ferris Glacier ; Wapta Icefield ; Mount Jimmy Jr. ; Bow Summit ; Day Traverses
- ISBN
- 9780991748518
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 01 B23i
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A correlated history of the Universe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26346
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Terra Inc.
- Edition
- 4th
- Call Number
- 03 J25a Pam
- Responsibility
- created by Janke, Paul R.
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Pan Terra Inc.
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- folded map 9"x4"
- Abstract
- "A Correlated History of EARTH" now in 4th edition, includes plate tectonic maps, geostratigraphy, surface geology, ice ages, magnetic reversals, major volcanic flood basalts, orogenies, impact craters, classic sites, the fossil record, mass extinctions, genetic timescale..." -- "A Correlated History of Matter" extends the detailed timeline back to the big bang, includes fundamental particles and forces, periodic table of elements, table of earth minerals, table of earth rocks, meteorites, impact-generated rocks, breccias, shattercones, tektites, the K/T boundary clay, many color photos..." - author's website
- Contents
- A correlated history of Earth -- A correlated history of matter
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 J25a Pam
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David by Earle Birney
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26378
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Beers, Don
- Call Number
- 05.1 B39d
- Author
- Beers, Don
- Responsibility
- Photography and notes by Beers, Don and poem by Birney, Earle
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 106 pages, 27cm
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Photography
- Abstract
- 'Poem illustrated with a folio of photographs plus some notes by Don Beers' - front cover
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 05.1 B39d
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Discovering numbers : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25490
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4o
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Abstract
- Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early-education concepts familiar to everyone. In addition to the English words presented, the French and Cree equivalents are also given, making these some of the most dynamic and useful board books on the market, perfectly suitable for the classroom, library and nursery.
- ISBN
- 9781771603317
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
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- 07.2 A4o
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Discovering people : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25491
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4b
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Subjects
- Language
- French
- Cree
- Indigenous
- Abstract
- Introduces basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community
- ISBN
- 9781771603270
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
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- 07.2 A4b
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Discovering words : english, french, cree
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25492
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4a
- Author
- Auger, Neepin
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 30 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 17 cm
- Abstract
- Neepin Auger's books for children contain original, brightly coloured images and early education level concepts familiar to everyone. Playful and bold, this dynamic series will educate and entertain preschoolers, parents, and teachers alike. In addition to the English words presented, the French and Cree equivalents are also given, making these some of the most dynamic and useful board books on the market, perfectly suitable for the classroom, library, and nursery.
- ISBN
- 9781771603294
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 07.2 A4a
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Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in museums
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25521
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
- Call Number
- 00 C67d
- Responsibility
- Edited by Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Laura L. Lott
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 170 pages
- Series
- American Alliance of Museums
- Subjects
- Diversity
- Equity
- Accessibility
- Inclusion
- Museums
- Abstract
- Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of museums’ structure and programming are top issues in the field today – and in the overall arts/culture sector. Much has been written, from various perspectives, over several decades. Yet, a lack of diversity remains and exclusive practices and inequities persist in all types of museums. A go-to resource for readers interested in learning about diversity and inclusion work in the field – past, present and future. This edited collection of the most important essays, speeches, and reports on these topics seeks to facilitate a much-needed intergenerational dialogue that builds on lessons from the past, broadens thinking about the many different facets of this complex work, and ignites inspiration for continuing to correct inequities across museums of all types, sizes, and locations. In this book compiled and edited by Dr. Johnnetta Betch Cole, who has served as both director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and as the president of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States, Spelman College and Bennett College (a distinction she alone holds) and Laura Lott, president and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, (the first woman to the lead the organization), thought leaders in the museum field present their research, analysis and work to answer some of the most challenge questions facing the museum field. Why do these problems persist? How can a new generation of museum leaders champion change to better represent the communities that museums strive to serve and engage? What can we learn from those who have been observing, experiencing, and writing about these issues? -- From back cover
- Contents
- Flies in the Buttermilk: Museums, Diversity, and the Will to Change / Lonnie G. Bunch III ; Museums, Racism, and the Inclusiveness Chasm / Carlos Tortolero ; Museums, Diversity, and Social Value / Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; Women's Locker Room Talk: Gender and Leadership in Museums / Kaywin Feldman ; Twin Threats: How Ignorance and Instrumentality Create Inequality and Injustice / Darren Walker ; The Leadership Imperative: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion as Strategy / Laura L. Lott ; History That Promotes Understanding in a Diverse Society / Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko ; Pipeline Is a Verb: Field Notes on the Spelman College Curatorial Studies Pilot Program / Andrea Barnwell Brownlee ; Museums and ADA at 25: Progress and Looking Ahead / Beth Bienvenu ; Catalyzing Inclusion: Steps toward Sustainability in Museums / Natanya Khashan ; It's Time to Stop and Ask "Why" / Lisa Sasaki ; Much Has Been Taken, but All Is Not Lost: The Restorative Promise of First-Voice Representation / Eduardo Diaz ; No Longer Hiding in Plain Sight / William Underwood Eiland ; The National Museum of the American Indian: Whence the "Art Object"? / W. Richard West Jr. ; Disability and Innovation: The Universal Benefits of Inclusive Design / Haben Girma ; Maybe This Time: A Personal Journey toward Racial Equity in Museums / Elaine Heumann Gurian ; Museum Musings: Inclusion Then and Now / Celine Shellman
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- 9781538118627
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 00 C67d
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Earth : evolution of a habitable world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26408
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Lunine, Jonathan I.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press
- Call Number
- 03 L97e
- Author
- Lunine, Jonathan I.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- viii, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Earth Physics
- Geology
- Origins of Earth
- Universe
- Earth
- Abstract
- "Fully updated throughout, including revised illustrations and new images from NASA missions, this new edition provides an overview of Earth's history from a planetary science perspective for Earth science undergraduates. Earth's evolution is described in the context of what we know about other planets and the cosmos at large, from the origin of the cosmos to the processes that shape planetary environments and from the origins of life to the inner workings of cells. Astronomy, Earth science, planetary science and astrobiology are integrated to give students the whole picture of how the Earth has come to its present state and an understanding of the relationship between key ideas in different fields. The book presents concepts in nontechnical language and mathematical treatments are avoided where possible. New end-of-chapter summaries and questions allow students to check their understanding and critical thinking is emphasized to encourage students to explore ideas scientifically for themselves. Integrates astronomy, Earth science, planetary science and astrobiology to give students the whole picture of how the Earth has come to its present state. Presents concepts in nontechnical language and avoids mathematical treatments where possible, allowing students to grasp concepts without wading through complex maths. New end-of-chapter summaries and questions allow students to check their understanding and encourage wider critical thinking."--Publisher's description.
- Contents
- An introductory tour of Earth's cosmic neighborhood -- Largest and smallest scales -- Forces and energy -- Fusion, fission, sunlight, and element formation -- Determination of cosmic and terestrial ages -- Other uses of isotopes for Earth history -- Relative age dating of cosmic and terrestrial evens: the cratering record -- Relative age dating of terrestrial events: geologic layering and geologic time -- Plate tectonics: an introduction ot the process -- Formation of the solar system -- The Hadean Earth -- The Archean eon and the origin of life I: Properties of and sites for life -- The Archean eon and the irigin of life II: Mechanisms -- The first greenhouse crisis: the faint young sun -- Climate histories of Mars and Venus, and the habitability of planets -- Earth in transition: from the Archean to the Protozoic -- The oxygen revolution -- The Phanerozoic: flowering and extinction of complex life -- Climate change across the Phanerozoic -- Toward the age of humankind -- Climate change over the past few hundred thousand years -- Human-induced global warming -- Limitied resources: the human dilemma -- Coda: the once and future Earth.
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- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9780521850018
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 L97e
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Edible & medicinal plants of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25518
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Kershaw, Linda
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing and Partners Publishing
- Call Number
- 04.1 K47e 2016
- Author
- Kershaw, Linda
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publishing and Partners Publishing
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Medicine
- Abstract
- Throughout human history, plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. The Rocky Mountains are home to a diversity of plant species that have helped First Nations peoples and settlers survive through the centuries. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies describes 333 common trees, shrubs, flowers, ferns, mosses and lichens that have been used by people from ancient times to present. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Trees
- Shrubs
- Herbs
- Mosses & Lichens
- Poisonous Plants
- ISBN
- 9781772130188
- Accession Number
- 37000
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04.1 K47e 2016
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Finding directions west : readings that locate and dislocate Western Canada's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25531
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Responsibility
- Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- ix, 266 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- History-Canada
- History of Alberta
- Migration
- Colonialism
- Feminism
- Banff Centre
- Women's Rights
- Abstract
- Western Canada has figured historically as a focus point for new directions in human thought and action, migrations of the mind and body, and personal journeys of both a substantial and transcendental nature. The essays in Finding Directions West interrogate the meaning of those journeys, their reality, their memory, and their constructed identities within Western Canada itself. The book situates landscapes and peopled places in the West within the larger study of Western Canada and its transborder relationships. It draws scholars from a vareity of disciplines within history, from gender studies, to museum studies, to environmental history, in order to examine afresh Western Canada as a place for finding new directions in the human experience. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Partial List of Contents: Colonizer or Compatriot?: A Reassessment of Reveren John McDougall / Will Pratt ; "The Country Was Looking Wonderful": Insights on 1930s Alberta from the Travel Diary of Mary Beatrice Rundle / Sterling Evans ; Mountain Capitalists, Space, and Modernity at the Banff School of Fine Arts / PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall
- ISBN
- 9781552388808
- Accession Number
- P2021.05
- Call Number
- 07.2 c71f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Four billion years and counting : Canada's geological heritage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26450
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Fensome, Robert and Williams, Graham and Achab, Ai¨cha and Clague, John and Corrigan, David and Monger, Jim and Nowlan, Godfrey
- Publisher
- Halifax : Nimbus Publishing : Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
- Call Number
- 04 F35f
- Publisher
- Halifax : Nimbus Publishing : Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- vi, 402 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, portraits (some colour) ; 30 cm
- Abstract
- "Canada's diverse landscape speaks to its fascinating geological history, from towering peaks to Prairie plains, from fertile farmlands of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands to rugged cliffs of the Atlantic shore. However, the modern landscape is just the latest episode in an epic story spanning more than 4 billion years. Four Billion Years and Counting unveils the geological history of Canada and makes connections between geology and social issues such as climate change, hazards such as landslides and earthquakes, and other environmental factors. The text features contributions from some 100 specialists, and is richly illustrated with over 500 colour photographs and diagrams. Four Billion Years and Counting is a fascinating exploration of Canada's geology for those who are intrigued by the landscape and the vital connection between ourselves and what lies beneath our feet."-- Publisher's website.
- Contents
- On the rocks / Graham Williams, Ai¨cha Achab, Robert Fensome, Catherine Hickson, Alain Leclair, Andrew MacRae, Andrew Miall, Alan Morgan, Godfrey Nowlan, and Brian Pratt -- Crystal clear / Graham Williams, Pierrette Tremblay, and Robert Fensome -- Getting to the core / Raymond Price, Jim Monger, and Graham Williams -- Dance of the continents / Brendan Murphy, Jim Monger, Jean Be´dard, Robert Fensome, Andrew Hynes, Michel Malo, Andrew Miall, Raymond Price, and Graham Williams -- It's about time / Andrew Okulitch, Robert Fensome, John Gosse, Jim Monger, Le´opold Nadeau, Godfrey Nowlan, and Graham Williams -- Mapping, probing, and sensing / Godfrey Nowlan, John Clague, Ron Clowes, Sonya Dehler, Gordon Fader, Robert Fensome, Wayne Goodfellow, Roger Macqueen, Raymond Price, and Graham Williams -- Fossils and the bush of life / Godfrey Nowlan, Ai¨cha Achab, Robert Fensome, Brian Pratt, and Graham Williams -- Spheres of influence / John Clague, Raymond Price, and Graham Williams -- The lay of the land / Robert Fensome, David Corrigan, Paul Fraser, Fran Haidl, Jim Monger, and Graham Williams -- From stardust to continents: before 2,500 million years ago / Wouter Bleeker, David Corrigan, Andrew Knoll, John Percival, Robert Fensome, Brian Pratt, and Graham Williams -- Laying the foundations: Canada 2,500 to 750 million years ago / David Corrigan, Andrew Knoll, Rob Rainbird, Bruce Ryan, Thomas Clark, Robert Fensome, and Graham Williams -- Southern Sojourn: Canada 750 to 444 million years ago / Keith Dewing, Sandra Barr, Ronald Blakey, Fran Haidl, Christopher Harrison, Denis Lavoie, Jim Monger, Guy Narbonne, Bruce Sanford, Cees van Staal, Ai¨cha Achab, Doug Boyce, Robert Fensome, Patricia Gensel, Ian Knight, Michel Malo, Michael Melchin, Godfrey Nowlan, Raymond Price, Rob Rainbird, David Rudkin, Graham Williams, and Graham Young -- Walcott's legacy: the Burgess shale / Jean-Bernard Caron and David Rudkin -- The green revolution / Howard Falcon-Lang, Robert Fensome, Patricia Gensel, and Graham Williams -- Crossing the equator: Canada 444 to 251 million years ago / Christopher Harrison, Sandra Barr, Ronald Blakey, Martin Gibling, Fran Haidl, Denis Lavoie, Jim Monger, Cees van Staal, Wayne Bamber, Doug Boyce, John Calder, Maurice Colpron, Keith Dewing, Robert Fensome, Patricia Gensel, Ian Knight, Michel Malo, Michael Melchin, Jim Monger, Pierre Jutras, JoAnne Nelson, Godfrey Nowlan, Raymond Price, David Rudkin, Bruce Sanford, Cees van Staal, Graham Williams, Graham Young, and John-Paul Zonneveld -- Pangea breaks up and mountains rise: Canada 251 to 65.5 million years ago / Jim Monger, Ronald Blakey, David Eberth, Christopher Harrison, Maurice Colpron, Fabrice Cordey, Sonya Dehler, Carol Evenchick, Robert Fensome, Andrew McRae, JoAnne Nelson, Godfrey Nowlan, Paul Olsen, Terry Poulton, Raymond Price, Arthur Sweet, Franc¸ois Therrien, Hans Wielens, Graham Williams, Chris Yorath, Darla Zelenitsky, and John-Paul Zonneveld -- Growing fur / John Storer, Natalia Rybczynski, Graham Williams, and Robert Fensome -- Final approach: Canada 65.5 million years ago to today / Robert Fensome, Ronald Blakey, John Clague, Christopher Harrison, Jim Monger, John Storer, Graham Williams, Sonya Dehler, Alejandra Duk-Rodkin, David Eberth, Catherine Hickson, Dale Leckie, Andrew MacRae, Rolf Mathewes, Walter Nassichuk, Raymond Price, Natalia Rybczynski, Hans Wielens, Marie-Claude Williamson, and Chris Yorath -- The ice age / Lynda Dredge, Alwynne Beaudoin, John Clague, Alan Morgan, Gilbert Prichonnet, Robert Fensome, and Graham Williams -- Blowing hot and cold / John Clague and Martine Savard -- Forging a nation / Wayne Goodfellow and Benoi^t Dube´ -- Having the energy / Martin Fowler, Hans Wielens, Graham Williams, Charles Jefferson, Lesley Chorlton, Fran Haidl, Denis Lavoie, Jim Monger, Reuben Murphy, Godfrey Nowlan, and Grant Wach -- Building Canada / Dixon Edwards, Lawson Dickson, Robert Fensome, Robert Ledoux, and Randall Miller -- Que´bec city's extraordinary geological legacy / Robert Ledoux, Pascale Co^te´, Dixon Edwards, and Robert Fensome -- Water: a clear necessity / Stephen Grasby -- At the beach / Philip Hill, Donald Forbes, and Bernard Long -- On dangerous ground / John Clague and Andre´e Blais-Stevens -- Extraterrestrial visitors / Ann Therriault, Robert Fensome, and Graham Williams -- Environmental challenges / Nick Eyles and Michael Lazorek -- Toxins in the rocks / Patricia Rasmussen, David Gardner, and Michel Camus -- Canada's geological heritage / Robert Fensome and Graham Williams -- Milestones / Robert Fensome and Graham Williams.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9781551099965
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 F35f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country trail guide volume 3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26263
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13g
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Edition
- 4th edition
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 344 pages, 21.5cm
- Series
- Volume 3
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains
- Kananaskis Country
- Travel
- Trails
- Abstract
- Guide book for the Kananaskis Country area with important updates reagrding the severe flooding of 2013.
- Contents
- Hwy. 940 north (Waiparous) -- TransAlta road (Ghost river) -- Hwy. 1X (Bow valley) -- Hwy. 1A (Bow valley) -- Hwy. 1 (Bow Valley) -- Canmore -- Hwy. 742 (Spray valley)
- Notes
- The other volumes of 'Kananaskis Country Trail Guide' historically were issued an incorrect call number of '02.6k 13d YEAR v.#', updated editions have been also placed under the same call number for continuity; With the exception of books that we do not have historic copies of in the collection such as this record. 2024-05-28 TM
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9781927330036
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis country trail guide volume 5
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26264
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 4th
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13k
- Author
- Daffern, Gillean
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 336 pages, 21.5cm
- Series
- Volume 5
- Subjects
- Kananaskis Country
- Travel
- Trails
- Abstract
- Trail guide for Kananaskis Country.
- Contents
- Hwy. 541 (Lower Highwood) -- Flat Creek road (East Highwood) -- Hwy. 40 East (Highwood river valley) -- Hwy. 40 West (Highwood river valley) -- Hwy. 940 West (Cataract/Upper Oldman) -- Hwy. 940 East (Lower Cataract/Livingstone) -- Hwy. 532 (Willow Creek)
- Notes
- Most of the other volumes of 'Kananaskis Country Trail Guide' historically were issued an incorrect call number of '02.6k 13d YEAR v.#', updated editions have been also placed under the same call number for continuity; With the exception of books that we do not have historic copies of in the collection such as this record. 2024-05-28 TM
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9781771600941
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 02.6 D13k
- Collection
- Archives Library
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