Athabasca University Press imprint: 7 books

Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s disputes over day care programs policies and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Albertas Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and...

Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me a cross between memoir and fiction truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowars relationship with Roy Farransoldier politician author mentorand his conflict with Farrans anti-Semitic past.Best known for his service with the British...

Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on...

Canada and the United States. Two nations one border same continent. Anti-American sentiment in Canada is well documented but what have Americans had to say about their northern neighbour? Allan examines how the American media has portrayed Canada from Confederation to Obamas election. By examining...

Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination of the region's earliest inhabitants, author Trevor R. Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation...

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentiethcentury Aboriginal women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individualsa trader a performer a non-human woman. Other essays...

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...