Athabasca University Press: 129 books
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the...
by Jason Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The post-war period witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of working-class families. Wages rose, working hours were reduced, pension plans and state social security measures offered greater protection against unemployment, illness, and old age, the standard of living improved, and women and members...
by Ewa Lipska
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Sefer delicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwar generation, a generation for whom a devastating history has grown distant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel’s protagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living in Vienna—someone...
Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
A Memoir of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The...
Xwelíqwiya
The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Xwelíqwiya is the life story of Rena Point Bolton, a Stó:lō matriarch, artist, and craftswoman. Proceeding by way of conversational vignettes, the beginning chapters recount Point Bolton's early years on the banks of the Fraser River during the Depression. While at the time the Stó:lō, or Xwélmexw,...
A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation,...
A Metaphoric Mind
Selected Writings of Joseph Couture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Dr. Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as "Dr. Joe," stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked two paths,...
Windfall Apples
Tanka and Kyoka
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyoka mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful reflection.
by Patrick Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
“…aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection.” It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drive us...
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Dreamwork is a poetic exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. It is part of a poetry series on dream and its relation to actuality. The poems explore past, present, and future in different places from Canada through New Jersey, New York and New England...
by Charles Noble
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of "we use language" / "language uses us," into the objectification of "mind," into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin...
Making Game
An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. This engaging essay is informed by the author’s significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy.
To Know Our Many Selves
From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political...
The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership
To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains...