Books published by AU Press

To answer the question of what cognitive psychology is you must first understand its theoretical foundations¿foundations which have often received very little attention in modern textbooks. Author Michael Dawson seeks to address this oversight by exploring the essential principles that have established and guided this unique field of psychological study. Beginning with the basics of information processing, Dawson explores what experimental psychologists infer about these processes, and considers what scientific explanations are required when we assume cognition is rule-governed symbol manipulation. From these foundations, psychologists can identify the architecture of cognition and better understand its role in debates about its true nature. What is Cognitive Psychology? asks questions that will engage both students and researchers, including: Do we need the computer metaphor? Must we assume thinking involves mental representations? Do machines¿or people¿or brains¿actually think? What is the "cognitive" in "cognitive neuroscience" and where is the mind? By establishing cognitive psychology¿s foundational assumptions in its early chapters, this book places the reader in a position to critically evaluate such questions.

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

In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from transformative quotation to the individual idiom, Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them explores intertextuality in poetry by challenging the cultural tradition of seeing quotation as derivative.

Roy & Me is the exploration of Yacowar's relationship with Roy Farran - soldier, politician, author, mentor - and his conflict with Farran's anti-Semitic past.

Here the story of a B.C. First Nations woman, whose people were for many years both silent and silenced, is carefully recorded.

This book argues for a review of the systems by which Canadian football is governed and analyzes the reforms proposed by football leagues and by players.

Tracing the rise and evolution of Canadian penitentiaries in the nineteenth century, this book examines the concepts of criminality and rehabilitation, the role of labour in penal regimes, and the problem of violence.

In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadianphilosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a criticaltheory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into threeparts. The opening part offers a nuanced critique of the Hegelianconfidence and progressivism that has come to dominate Canadianintellectual life. Through an analysis of the work of several prominentCanadian thinkers, among them Charles Taylor and C. B. Macpherson, Angus suggests that Hegelian frames of reference are inadequate, failing as they do to accommodate the fact of English Canada'scontinuing indebtedness to empire. The second part focuses on nationalidentity and political culture, including the role of Canadian studiesas a discipline, adapting its critical method to Canadian politicalculture. The first two parts culminate in the positive articulation, inPart 3, of author's own conception, one that is at once moreutopian and more tragic than that of the first two parts. Here, Angusdevelops the concept of locative thought--the thinking of a peoplewho have undergone dispossession, "of a people seeking its placeand therefore of a people that has not yet found its place."

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.

Charles Noble's poems push the boundaries of formal logic, using a poetic revitalization of the syllogism to experiment with conventionality.

Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.

Extending the reach of higher education through flexibility.

Musing is a book of sonnets, combining one of poetry's most classic forms with history and landscape.

From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.

An expression of the solidarity between Indigenous peoples within settler Canada and the people of Palestine.

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

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

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.

During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party was the main voice of radical socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had affiliated to the Labour Party in 1906, when that party formed, although relations between the two had often been marked by conflict. In the decade following World War I, as the Labour Party edged nearer to its 1929 electoral victory, the ILP found its own identity under siege. On one side stood those who wanted the ILP to subordinate itself to the increasingly cautious and conventional Labour Party. On the other side were those who felt that the ILP should throw its lot in with the newly formed Communist Party of Great Britain and affiliate with the Soviet Communist Party. In 1932, the ILP chose instead to disaffiliate from the Labour Party in order to pursue a ¿revolutionary policy¿¿a policy that ultimately led to much debate and disunity. At the time it broke with Labour, the ILP boasted a membership five times that of the CPGB, as well as a sizeable contingent of MPs. By the return of war in 1939, the party had all but dissolved.Despite its reversal of fortunes, during the 1930s¿years that witnessed the ascendancy of both Stalin and Hitler¿the ILP demonstrated an unswerving commitment to democratic socialist thinking. Drawing extensively on the ILP¿s Labour Leader and other contemporary left-wing newspapers, as well as on ILP publications and internal party documents, Bullock examines the debates and ideological battles of the ILP during the tumultuous interwar period. He argues that the ILP made a lasting contribution to British politics in general, and to the modern Labour Party in particular, by preserving the values of democratic socialism during the interwar period.

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.