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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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Leaving Iran

Between Migration and Exile

Athabasca University Press

An intimate portrait of one family’s displacement after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and their search for identity.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Scaling Up

The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Speaking Power to Truth

Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Digital Nexus

Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement

Edited by Raphael Foshay
Athabasca University Press

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
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How Canadians Communicate V

Sports

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Community Nutrition for Developing Countries

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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How Canadians Communicate VI

Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Learning in Virtual Worlds

Research and Applications

Athabasca University Press

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
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Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning

Foundations and Applications

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Visiting with the Ancestors

Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Living on the Land

Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place

Athabasca University Press

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
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Without Apology

Writings on Abortion in Canada

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Reading Vincent van Gogh

A Thematic Guide to the Letters

Athabasca University Press

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.

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Spark of Light

Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha

Athabasca University Press

Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell

Athabasca University Press

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
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Interrogating Motherhood

Athabasca University Press

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
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Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin

Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

Athabasca University Press

Contributors discuss and explore the unique record of prehistoric landscape use revealed by development in the lower Athabasca Basin.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land

Unfinished Conversations

Athabasca University Press

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
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The Wolves at My Shadow

The Story of Ingelore Rothschild

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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