Athabasca University Press: 129 books
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...
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...