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Athabasca University Press is Canada’s first open access scholarly press. Founded in 2007 with the principal aim of reducing barriers to knowledge and increasing access to scholarship, AU Press is committed to bringing the work of emerging and established scholars to the public. With both an open-access journal and monograph program, they make a significant contribution to the growing body of academic and literary work that is available to a global readership at no cost to the reader.

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Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again

Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Laxyuubm Gitselasu

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213

Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Lookout Cave

The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains

By John H. Brumley; Photographs by James Marshall
Athabasca University Press

This fully illustrated volume sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of the well-hidden space at Lookout Cave.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Hockey on the Moon

Imagination and Canada’s Game

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal

The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Exploring Agency in Children and Youth

Expressions and Constraints

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Troubles Online

Ableism and Access in Higher Education

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Challenging Borders

Contingencies and Consequences

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Triumph and Solidarity

BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Writing Ukraine

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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On Othering

Processes and Politics of Unpeace

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Grieving for Pigeons, Revised Edition

Twelve Stories of Lahore

By Zubair Ahmad; Translated by Anne Murphy
Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Principles of Blended Learning

Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Law is (Not) for Kids, Revised and Updated Edition

A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Not Hockey

Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature

Edited by Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp
Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Drink in the Summer

A Memoir of Croatia

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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How to Read Like You Mean It

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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How Education Works

Teaching, Technology, and Technique

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Violence, Imagination, and Resistance

Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Indigiqueerness

A Conversation about Storytelling

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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Critical Digital Pedagogy in Higher Education

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Memory and Landscape

Indigenous Responses to a Changing North

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Little Wet-Paint Girl

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Class Warrior

The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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What is Cognitive Psychology?

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Metaphors of Ed Tech

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence

Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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A Sales Tax for Alberta

Why and How

Edited by Robert L. Ascah
Athabasca University Press

In this collection, Alberta scholars and policy experts map out why and how a provincial sales tax should and can be implemented as the days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Screening Nature and Nation

The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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World Bolshevism

By Iulii Martov; Introduction by Paul Kellogg; Translated by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentyeva
Athabasca University Press

In 1903, at the close of the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the socialist party had split into two factions, those that would follow Lenin’s proposed revolutionary path and those that would follow Iulii Martov—a group that would call themselves the Mensheviks. In this edition, Martov’s only book is ably translated by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentyeva, making it available in English in its complete form for the first time in a hundred years.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Under the Nakba Tree

Athabasca University Press

In this moving memoir, a Palestinian man recalls his childhood in Canada and the struggles he faced at the intersection of indigeneity, national identity, and marginality.

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Bucking Conservatism

Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s

Athabasca University Press

With chapters by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the lasting influence of Alberta’s nonconformists.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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"Truth Behind Bars"

Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution

Athabasca University Press

The temporary class of peasants-in-uniform, unmotivated by Lenin’s vision of democracy, that brought down the Russian Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Plastic Legacies

Pollution, Persistence, and Politics

Athabasca University Press

Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Dissenting Traditions

Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History

Athabasca University Press

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contemporaries, students, and sometimes critics to examine and expand on the topics and themes that have defined Palmer’s career, from labour history to Marxism and communist politics.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Regime of Obstruction

How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

Athabasca University Press

Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. This book provides essential context to the climate crisis and will transform discussions of energy democracy.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Finding Refuge in Canada

Narratives of Dislocation

Athabasca University Press

George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary. He has written and edited over twenty-five books on Canadian cinema, Alberta literature, the co-operative movement, and other Canadian subjects. As someone who came to Canada as a refugee he is deeply connected to the phenomenon and has published articles on Canada and refugees. This is his first book on the topic. Christina Parker is an assistant professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo. She specializes in critical ethnographic and mixed methods research in diverse schools and communities and is the author of Peacebuilding, Citizenship, and Identity: Empowering Conflict and Dialogue in Multicultural Classrooms (Sense|Brill, 2016).

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Finest Blend

Graduate Education in Canada

Athabasca University Press

As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. This book provides a comprehensive overview of current practices and opportunities for blended learning success.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Virtues of Disillusionment

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics

Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond

Athabasca University Press

From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. This volume extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Art of Communication in a Polarized World

Athabasca University Press

In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. An essential guide for surviving in our polarized society, this book offers concrete strategies for refining how values and ideas are communicated.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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25 Years of Ed Tech

Athabasca University Press

In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith

Athabasca University Press

A poetic setting of a World War I soldier's diary.

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