Au Press imprint: 1283 books
Without Apology
Writings on Abortion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Until the late 1960s, the authorities on abortion were for the most part men—politicians, clergy, lawyers, physicians, all of whom had an interest in regulating women’s bodies. Even today, when we hear women speak publicly about abortion, the voices are usually those of the leaders of women’s...
The Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Over half a century ago, in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan noted that the overlap of traditional print and new electronic media like radio and television produced widespread upheaval in personal and public life: Even without collision, such co-existence of technologies and awareness...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, a cross-disciplinary approach to the mobilization of information...
Spark of Light
Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and...
Legal Literacy
An Introduction to Legal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
To understand how the legal system works, students must consider the law in terms of its structures, processes, language, and modes of thought and argument—in short, they must become literate in the field. Legal Literacy fulfills this aim by providing a foundational understanding of key concepts...
Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent...
More Moments in Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing
Images of Exemplary Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become a model for others. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group...
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider...
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following...
by Don Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Don Kerr knows prairie culture better than most?he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his...
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extended meditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets, the poems are a mixture of tradition and innovation. Throughout, Hart deftly interweaves European culture...
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian,...
The Undiscovered Country
Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The opening...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in...