Athabasca University Press: 129 books
An Online Doctorate for Researching Professionals
Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
The interest in and demand for online terminal degress across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. But what these programs look like, how they are implemented, and how they might be evaluated are the questions...
Public Deliberation on Climate Change
Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
There exists in both academic and political circles a growing interest in public deliberation as an alternative to the sometimes adversarial and polarizing public engagement activities that result in the pitting of experts against lay people. Proponents of public deliberation claim that a more deliberative...
Visiting With the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
A co-publication with UNISA Press Nutrition textbooks used by universities and colleges in developing countries have very often been written by scholars who live and work in North America or the United Kingdom. And while the research and information they present is sound, the nutrition-related health...
by Ian Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Over two decades have passed since the collapse of the USSR, yet the words "Soviet Union" still carry significant weight in the collective memory of millions. But how often do we consider the true meaning of the term "Soviet"? Drawing extensively on left-wing press archives, Romancing...
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology...
"My Own Portrait in Writing"
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In Grant’s earlier book, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. A Critical Study (AU Press, 2014), he followed a practical-critical analysis of the letters that dealt with key patterns of metaphors and concepts. This volume is a complement to the first book and provides an effective, theory-based reading...
The Law is (Not) for Kids
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In this practical guide to the law for young people of Canada, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth and those that serve them. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home,...
by Terry Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education...
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the “home company” for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre,...
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From...
by E.D. Blodgett, Marzia Paton, Robert Kessner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett's deep love for and intimate experience of Prague, Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city's vital spirit. As they build on one another, the poems in the collection lift the reader over the threshold of purely mythic understanding and into the heart of...
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates...
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving correspondence presents a formidable challenge to those who wish...