Books published by AU Press

Setting municipal relief administrations of the 1930s within a wider literature on welfare and urban poor relief, this study highlights the legacy on which Canadian relief policymakers relied in determining policy directions, as well as the experiences of the individuals and families who depended on relief for their survival.

On enseigne l'histoire tous les jours a l'ecole; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d'histoire du travail de la province ou meme du pays?

In this collection of four plays by Katherine Koller, the Canadian prairie drives and intensifies the actions of the human characters.

Contemplates language loss and recovery in the twenty-first century, by relating one woman's journey in learning an Indigenous language.

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.

A dream-like voyage exploring Mexican cowboys, robots, and convenience store clerks, this collection shatters all preconceived notions of poetry.

In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire Don Kerr's unique prairie voice - minimalist, self-effacing, immersed in his love of the vernacular language of this place.

The contributors to this third volume of How Canadians Communicate focus on the question "what does Canadian popular culture have to say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity?" and show how popular culture is negotiated across the different terrains where a sense of national identity is built.

This collection informs science educators about current practices in online and distance education: distance-delivered methods for laboratory coursework, the requisite administrative and institutional aspects of online and distance teaching, as well as the relevant educational theory.

This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.

In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity.

Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada.

An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede, an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 days every July.

A captivating portrait - in his own words - of Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978), who reinvented himself as a Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman."

Reveals the geography, wildlife, and natural history of northeastern Saskatchewan as well as the business and social interactions between people. This book offers a look at the vanished subsistence and commercial economy of the boreal forest, based on the personal story of person who was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, and game guardian.

A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.