Athabasca University Press: 129 books
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...
by Tom Langford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
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...
Roy & Me: This Is Not a Memoir
This Is Not a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
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...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
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...
by Chantal Allan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
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: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains
Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
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...
by Sarah Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
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...
by Keith D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 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...
Man Proposes, God Disposes
Recollections of a French Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in...
Valences of Interdisciplinarity
Theory, Practice, Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced...
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Sarah Carter reveals the pioneering efforts of the government, legal, and religious authorities to impose the “one man, one woman”model of marriage upon Mormons and Aboriginal people in Western Canada. This lucidly written, richly researched book revises what we know about marriage and the gendered...
Game-Day Gangsters
Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already...
A Designer's Log
Case Studies in Instructional Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model...
Accessible Elements
Teaching Science Online and at a Distance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Accessible Elements informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, and the relevant educational theory.Delivery of university-level...