Au Press imprint: 1283 books
Northern Love
An exploration of Canadian Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global...
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants...
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for...
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the...
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditional...
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance
Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Canada is regularly presented as a country where liberalism has ensured freedom and equality for all. Yet with the expansion of settlers into the First Nations territories that became southern Alberta and BC, liberalism proved to be an exclusionary rather than inclusionary force. Between 1877 and...
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land
Unfinished Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships...
Mind, Body, World
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition...
by E.D. Blodgett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this collection by the well-known Edmonton poet, E.D. Blodgett, is an ode to the wisdom and divinity of silence. The poet muses on the quiet of the outdoors and the mysterious relationship that exists between spaces of silence within a city's limits. Most of the short lyrics that make up this sublime...
A Woman of Valour
The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A Woman of Valour is the biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle, a French-Canadian woman who found love with a priest thirty-three years her senior. Against all social convention, they lived, produced three children, and built a life together after fleeing their village.However, after several...
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals—intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted...
The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner
A Transformational Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
From the moment it was first proposed, the role of the nurse practitioner has been steeped in controversy. In the fields of both nursing and medicine, the idea that a nurse practitioner can, to some degree, serve as a replacement for the physician has sparked heated debates. Perhaps for that reason,...
by Jason Foster, Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. It offers an extensive overview of central occupational health and safety...