Athabasca University Press: 129 books
by Joan Sangster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory...
Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning
Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Educational systems worldwide are facing an enormous shift as a result of sociocultural, political, economic, and technological changes. The technologies and practices that have developed over the last decade have been heralded as opportunities to transform both online and traditional education systems....
The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the...
Working People in Alberta: A History
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who...
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery
Information and Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada. Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners, this invaluable guide includes chapters on preparing for prostate surgery, the surgery itself,...
by Naomi McIlwraith
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her mother’s beauty and generosity as an inheritor of...
Imagining Head Smashed In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working...
The Wolves at My Shadow
The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Ingelore Rothschild was twelve years old when she was whisked out of her home in 1936. It was her first step on a cross-continent journey to Japan, where she and her parents sought refuge from rising anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. A decade later, as she sails away from what has become her home in...
Leaving Iran
Between Migration and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political...
Film and the City
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary...
by Frances W Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Amer-European settlement of the Great Plains transformed bountiful Native soil into pasture and cropland, distorting the prairie ecosystem as it was understood and used by the peoples who originally populated the land. Settlers justified this transformation with the unexamined premise of deficiency,...
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters—more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all,...
by Leopold McGinnis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Crafting wings out of wax and poems from the underground, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea is a dreamlike voyage through poetic narrative format, blurring the line between poetry and fiction. Exploring the frenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, and convenience store clerks, Zeus...
The Metabolism of Desire
The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The fact that Cavlacanti’s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti’s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the “sweet new style” that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante’s poetry was...