Au Press imprint: 1283 books
Vivre à nu
La surveillance au Canada
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2014
"Nombre de Canadiens savent que les organismes du gouvernement s’adonnent à de la surveillance de masse en utilisant les données téléphoniques et électroniques. Néanmoins, peu d’entre eux sont réellement conscients de l’influence réelle que cette surveillance a sur presque tous...
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Grant’s earlier book, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), he followed a practical-critical analysis of the letters that dealt with key patterns of metaphors and concepts. This volume is a complement to the first book and provides an effective, theory-based reading...
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened...
Solidarités provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2013
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale,...
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
A co-publication with UNISA Press Nutrition textbooks used by universities and colleges in developing countries have very often been written by scholars who live and work in North America or the United Kingdom. And while the research and information they present is sound, the nutrition-related health...
by Ian Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing...
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology...
The Law is (Not) for Kids
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In this practical guide to the law for young people of Canada, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth and those that serve them. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home,...
by Terry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education...
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the “home company” for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre,...
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From...
by E.D. Blodgett, Marzia Paton, Robert Kessner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett's deep love for and intimate experience of Prague, Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city's vital spirit. As they build on one another, the poems in the collection lift the reader over the threshold of purely mythic understanding and into the heart of...
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates...