Athabasca University Press: 129 books
More Moments in Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing
Images of Exemplary Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become a model for others. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group...
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider...
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following...
Solidarités provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2013
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale,...
by Don Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Don Kerr knows prairie culture better than most?he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his...
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the framework of a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extended meditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets, the poems are a mixture of tradition and innovation. Throughout, Hart deftly interweaves European culture...
by Jonathan Locke Hart
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian,...
The Undiscovered Country
Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The opening...
by Bob Barnetson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in...
Under Siege
The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming...
by Lynda R. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
It has been four decades since the publication of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born but her analysis of maternity and the archetypal Mother remains a powerful critique, as relevant today as it was at the time of writing. It was Rich who first defined the term “motherhood” as referent to a patriarchal...
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment,...
by David Groulx
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality...