Books published by AU Press

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

"Dr. Joe challenges the reader to examine both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal approaches to the world and demonstrates the differences between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought." -Ed Buller

This revealing history examines the impact of the myth of Soviet democracy: the belief that Russia was embarking on a brave experiment in a form of popular government more genuine and advanced than even the best forms of parliamentarism.

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.

Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research.

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.

Vivre à nu, oeuvre d'une équipe de recherche multidisciplinaire, explique comment la surveillance s'accroît--presque sans qu'on y prenne garde--dans toutes les sphères de notre vie. Nombre de Canadiens sont conscients que les organismes du gouvernement s'adonnent à la surveillance de masse en utilisant les données téléphoniques et électroniques, mais peu d'entre eux savent à quel point des formes courantes de surveillance ont envahi leur vie privée. Aujourd'hui, nous ne pouvons pas marcher au centre-ville, assister à un cours, payer par carte de crédit, prendre un avion ou faire un appel sans que des données soient captées et traitées. Où va cette information? Qui l'utilise? Qui y gagne et qui y perd? Le projet « La nouvelle transparence » a voulu analyser la multitude de moyens employés par les secteurs public et privé pour recueillir, vérifier, analyser et échanger des renseignements sur des citoyens ordinaires. Après des années de recherche, les auteurs ont dégagé neuf grandes tendances dans la pratique contemporaine de la surveillance, qui collectivement soulèvent des questions pressantes au sujet de la vie privée et de la justice sociale. Est-ce que le prix à payer pour utiliser les médias sociaux et d'autres moyens de communication électronique est la perte de notre emprise sur nos renseignements personnels? Ou devrions-nous plutôt nous méfier des systèmes qui nous rendent plus que jamais visibles, et donc vulnérables, aux yeux des autres? Cet ouvrage vise à informer les décideurs, les journalistes, les groupes de défense des libertés civiles et les enseignants sur l'état actuel de la surveillance au Canada. Mais surtout, il cherche à sensibiliser les citoyens sans méfiance aux pratiques de surveillance omniprésentes et largement invisibles qui les entourent.

Renowned poet E.D. Blodgett pays poetic homage to Prague in this collection of poems celebrating the legendary city's rich lifeblood.

Bringing his genuine poetic gifts to the project, Slavitt's translations provide stronger evidence of the originals' poetic qualities than has been available for at least a century. - Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winner

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.

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

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.

Goodlands suggests methods for redeveloping the Great Plains region that are founded on native cultural values.

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.

How current legislation governs privacy and freedom in the digital age.

Set in the Dirty Thirties, this prairie classic novel concerns Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build a ship in the middle of a Ssaskatchewan wheatfield.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.

A history of one union local after World War II and its impact on the daily working-class experience.