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.
Strategic Nonviolent Power
The Science of Satyagraha
- Copyright year: 2013
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR, 1962-64
- Copyright year: 2013
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments
Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry
Provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning, the integration of complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner
A Transformational Journey
- Copyright year: 2013
Teaching Health Professionals Online
Frameworks and Strategies
- Copyright year: 2013
Film and the City
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
- Copyright year: 2013
Vivre á nu
La surveillance au Canada
- Copyright year: 2014
Transparent Lives
Surveillance in Canada
This highly readable book tells Canadians what they ought to know to better understand the ways in which surveillance is expanding – mostly unchecked – into every facet of their lives, and what they can do about it.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.
- Copyright year: 2014
Online Distance Education
Towards a Research Agenda
Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.
- Copyright year: 2014
Teaching Crowds
Learning and Social Media
- Copyright year: 2014
Legal Literacy
An Introduction to Legal Studies
Legal Literacy provides a foundational understanding of key concepts such as legal personhood, jurisdiction, and precedent, and by introducing students to legal research and writing skills.
- Copyright year: 2014
We Are Coming Home
Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
The story of the highly complex process of of sacred objects to Aboriginal peoples from the Glenbow Museum.
- Copyright year: 2014
Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country
Memories of a Mother and Son
The previously unpublished memoirs of mother and son from a prominent missionary family living near Norway House in the early 1900s.
- Copyright year: 2014
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
A poor man’s first-hand account of the punishing realities of daily life in Haiti from the final years of the Duvalier dictatorship to the year following the 2010 earthquake.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
- Copyright year: 2015
“My Own Portrait in Writing”
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.
- Copyright year: 2015
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
This is a much needed critical assessment of the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact the government’s relationship to the oil industry has on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens.
- Copyright year: 2015
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Teacher and the Superintendent
Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918
- Copyright year: 2013
Leaving Iran
Between Migration and Exile
An intimate portrait of one family’s displacement after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and their search for identity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Scaling Up
The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability
- Copyright year: 2015
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
- Copyright year: 2015
The Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.
- Copyright year: 2016
How Canadians Communicate V
Sports
- Copyright year: 2016
Community Nutrition for Developing Countries
- Copyright year: 2016
How Canadians Communicate VI
Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy
- Copyright year: 2016
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
In this authoritative collection, a team of international experts outline the emerging trends and developments in the use of 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning.
- Copyright year: 2016
Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning
Foundations and Applications
- Copyright year: 2016
Visiting with the Ancestors
Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Living on the Land
Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place
An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women’s environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment.
- Copyright year: 2015
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Without Apology
Writings on Abortion in Canada
- Copyright year: 2016
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.
Spark of Light
Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha.
- Copyright year: 2016
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a simple and outspoken account of the sexual and psychological abuse that Arthur Bear Chief suffered during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation.
- Copyright year: 2016
Interrogating Motherhood
Ross explores the topic of mothering from the perspective of Western society and encourages students and readers to identify and critique the historical, social, and political contexts in which mothers are understood.
- Copyright year: 2016
Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin
Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments
Contributors discuss and explore the unique record of prehistoric landscape use revealed by development in the lower Athabasca Basin.
- Copyright year: 2016
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land
Unfinished Conversations
These essays Jennifer Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Wolves at My Shadow
The Story of Ingelore Rothschild
- Copyright year: 2016