FALL 2021 The University of Calgary Press publishes works that embody the spirit of curiosity inherent in scholarly inquiry. We invest in ideas that inform how we think and shape our world in order that we may connect local realities to global experiences. On questions of history and identity, people and nature, policy and community; from the transpolar to the southern cone, from regions in Africa to places in the mind; we try to engage one central theme: what matters? THANK YOU! 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The university recognizes that the City of Calgary is also home to Region III of the Métis Nation of Alberta. new 1 HAPPY SANDS Barb Howard One woman’s quest for a postcard-perfect family vacation goes off the rails, again, in this sharply funny, smartly observed novel unafraid to stare into the sunburned reality of life at the beach. Ginny Johnson, her husband Martin, and their two kids, Alistair and Ruby, spend a week at Happy Sands Resort every summer. And it’s always perfect. Mostly perfect. It could be perfect. Probably. This year, Ginny’s expectations are dashed again as Martin spends all his time sleeping, eight-year-old Ruby turns anything and everything into a competition, and teenage Alistair avoids the sun and his family. A series of elaborate beach pranks unfolds, and Ginny, alone and annoyed, starts drinking earlier in the day, lets her caustic wit run free, and picks up massage therapy work even though she’s supposed to be on vacation. This intimate access to the other residents of Happy Sands, especially the uber fit Dwayne Champion, Series: provides both a much-needed distraction from the slow death of BRAVE & BRILLIANT Ginny’s postcard holiday and a lens into the eccentric inner lives of 140 pages the seasonal residents of the resort. 6 x 9 inches Full of humour, sharp observations, revealing massages, and 978-1-77385-216-4 Paperback surprisingly uncomfortable lawn chairs, Happy Sands is a highly 978-1-77385-217-1 Library PDF 978-1-77385-218-8 ePub entertaining and poignant story of summer vacation gone all-too- $24.99 CAD / $24.99 USD (T) predictably wrong. From beach bonfires to the search for Moby Trout, the mythical monster fish of Cornflower Lake, this novel is for September 2021 anyone who’s spent a disappointing day at the beach. FICTION BARB HOWARD is the author of Notes for Monday, Whipstock, The Dewpoint Show, and the award-winning short story collection Western Taxidermy. She has served as President of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta, Writer-in-Residence at the Calgary Public Library, and editor of Freefall Magazine, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, the Alexandra Writer’s Centre, and the Banff Centre. RELATED READING: press.ucalgary.ca UNLOCKING SPECTRAL LIVING Amy LeBlanc Andrea King In Snowton, Alberta, secrets Andrea King writes a flourish like the crocuses provocative, cerebral, in spring. When Louise Till and subversive ode to lets herself into a neighbor’s love, academic life, and home using a surreptitiously the redeeming power of copied key, she discovers creativity. Spectral Living more than she ever wanted is a poignant novel about to know about her small town the tension in and between and herself. worlds. 978-1-77385-139-6 PB 978-1-77385-147-1 PB $19.99 CAD / $19.99 USD (T) $27.99 CAD / $27.99 USD (T) 2 new IN SINGING, HE COMPOSED A SONG Jeremy Stewart Raw and challenging, In Singing, He Composed a Song is a powerful experimental novel that scavenges institutional language to tell the story of self and find the lyric within the noise. John is the teenage terror of his northern industrial town. With his friends, James and Simon, he is a disciple of depression and ennui. His world is a haze of smoke and heavy metal, anchored by poverty. Every day he steps closer to the edge. When an altercation at school leads to a bad encounter with the police and involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward, John finds himself alone in the hospital Quiet Room with time to think, to reflect on who he is, how he got here, and how to move forward—whether he wants to or not. John is a successful musician. Music is his passion, his solace, and the place he belongs. Looking for the lyric in the noise, he sifts through Series: his life, through layers of experience overlapping like chords. He BRAVE & BRILLIANT searches for himself in his psychiatric records, in the voices of his friends, his teachers, the cops, his doctors, and in his own memories. 88 pages, 15 illustrations 6 x 9 inches Rearranging the layers into some sort of music, he tries to find a true account of himself. 978-1-77385-220-1 Paperback 978-1-77385-221-8 Library PDF In Singing, He Composed a Song is a masterful experimental novel 978-1-77385-222-5 ePub $19.99 CAD / $19.99 USD (T) that blends poetry and fiction, past and future, word and image, to radically question how language and authority intertwine to shape the September 2021 ways we view ourselves. It finds the music—however dissonant—that EXPERIMENTAL FICTION can’t be held behind steel doors or hidden in the pages of your file. JEREMY STEWART is the author of “flood basement and Hidden City, which won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. He is the founding Artistic Director of Casse-Tête: A Festival of Experimental Music and recipient of the inaugural Barbara Pentland Award. He once dropped a piano off a building. RELATED READING: press.ucalgary.ca DR SAD THE RED CHESTERFIELD David Bateman Wayne Arthurson What’s the difference Winner of the Arthur Ellis between living life and Award for Crime Writing, the enduring it? Leaping through Alberta Publishing Award for time and mixing the playfully Trade Fiction and High Plains serious with the seriously Award Finalist, this delightful playful, DR SAD blends and unusual novella upsets poetry with prose and finds the tropes and traditions of the humour in despair in one crime fiction. complete, glittering tragedy of triumph. 978-1-77385-103-7 PB 978-1-77385-077-1 PB $28.99 CAD/$28.99 USD (T) $18.99 CAD / $18.99 USD (T) new 3 SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City Noel Keough with Geoff Ghitter Through close examination of one city’s struggle for a just transition to a post-carbon world, Sustainability Matters argues for a global, holistic, and radical understanding of the importance of sustainability. Calgary, Alberta is a culturally diverse urban metropolis. Sprawling and car-dependent, fast-growing and affluent, it is dominated by the fossil fuel industry. For 30 years, Calgary has struggled to turn sustainability rhetoric into reality. Sustainability Matters is the story of Calgary’s setbacks and successes on the path toward sustainability. Chronicling two decades of public conversations, political debate, urban policy and planning, and scholarly discovery, it is both a fascinating case study and an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of 372 pages, 10 images urban sustainability. A clear-eyed view of the struggles of turning 6 x 9 inches knowledge into action, this book illuminates the places where 978-1-77385-248-5 Paperback theory and reality converge and presents an approach to municipal 978-1-77385-250-8 Library PDF development, planning, and governance that takes seriously the 978-1-77385-251-5 ePub $34.99 CAD / $34.99 USD (T) urgent need to address climate change and injustice. September 2021 Addressing a wide variety of topics and themes, including energy, diversity, economic development, and ecological health, URBAN SUSTAINABILITY, Sustainability Matters is both a critique of current practice and a ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES vision for the future that uses the city of Calgary as a microcosm to address issues faced by cities around the world. This is essential reading not only for every Calgarian working for a vibrant and sustainable future, but for all those interested in the future of cities in a post-carbon world. NOEL KEOUGH is a co-founder of CivicCamp Calgary and Sustainable Calgary Society. He has published extensively on sustainability, sustainable community design, and low-carbon cities. GEOFF GHITTER is an urban researcher, theorist, and retired university instructor with a focus on the application of complex systems theory to both natural and urban systems. RELATED READING: press.ucalgary.ca ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM CANADIAN ON THE GROUND: Small COUNTERCULTURES AND Green and Indigenous THE ENVIRONMENT Organizing Edited by Colin M. Coates Edited by Jonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper Recycling, urban cycling, organic farming, back-to- Discover the history of the-land and more. Canadian environmental activism from countercultures have deeply the ground up, with special influenced environmental attention to the work of action, environmental Small Green and Indigenous movements, policies and Activists. attitudes . 978-1-77385-004-7 PB 978-1-55238-814-3 PB $39.99 CAD/$39.99 USD (S) $34.95 CAD/$34.95 USD (S) 4 new ENERGY IN THE AMERICAS Critical Reflections on Energy and History Edited by Amelia M.