Au Press imprint: 1283 books
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all,...
by Leopold McGinnis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Crafting wings out of wax and poems from the underground, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea is a dreamlike voyage through poetic narrative format, blurring the line between poetry and fiction. Exploring the frenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, and convenience store clerks, Zeus...
The Metabolism of Desire
The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The fact that Cavlacanti’s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti’s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the “sweet new style” that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante’s poetry was...
by Andreas Schroeder, Don Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the "Dirty Thirties," Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen's mythic...
Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward...
by Arthur Bear Chief, Frits Pannekoek, Judy Bedford
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a of chronological vignettes that depict the punishment, cruelty, and injustice that Arthur endured at Old Sun...
We Are Coming Home
Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A one-stop knowledge resource, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance.This widely anticipated book harnesses...
From Bricks to Brains
The Embodied Cognitive Science of Lego Robots
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains...
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1923, archetypal “Cowboys and Indians” are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection...
A Designer's Log
Case Studies in Instructional Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model...
Accessible Elements
Teaching Science Online and at a Distance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Accessible Elements informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, and the relevant educational theory.Delivery of university-level...
Teaching Crowds
Learning and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts,...
Valences of Interdisciplinarity
Theory, Practice, Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced...