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How Canadians Communicate V

Sports

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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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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Speaking Power to Truth

Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Scaling Up

The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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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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The Teacher and the Superintendent

Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Familiar and Foreign

Identity in Iranian Film and Literature

Athabasca University Press

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
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Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

Athabasca University Press

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
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“My Own Portrait in Writing”

Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Athabasca University Press

An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine

Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun

A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti

Athabasca University Press

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
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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country

Memories of a Mother and Son

Athabasca University Press

The previously unpublished memoirs of mother and son from a prominent missionary family living near Norway House in the early 1900s.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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We Are Coming Home

Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence

Athabasca University Press

The story of the highly complex process of of sacred objects to Aboriginal peoples from the Glenbow Museum.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Legal Literacy

An Introduction to Legal Studies

Athabasca University Press

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
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Teaching Crowds

Learning and Social Media

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Online Distance Education

Towards a Research Agenda

Athabasca University Press

Offers a systematic overview of the major issues, trends, and areas of priority in online distance education research.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

A Critical Study

Athabasca University Press

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
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Transparent Lives

Surveillance in Canada

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, and Valerie M. Steeves; By The New Transparency Project
Athabasca University Press

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
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Vivre á nu

La surveillance au Canada

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, and Valerie M. Steeves; By The New Transparency Project
Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Film and the City

The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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