Books from Athabasca University Press
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Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability
By Sean Markey, Mark Roseland... Cassidy, James S. Gerber, Matt Johnston, Nathaniel D. Mueller et al. 2011. “Solutions for a Cultivated Planet.” Nature 478 (20 October): 337–42. Fonteneau, Bénédicte, Nancy Neamtan, Fredrick Wanyama, Leandro Pereira Morais, ...
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Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada
By Ted McCoyWhen he did not submit, Hughes drew his revolver and fired on Hewell, hitting him between the cheek and the ear. “You have me now,” Hewell gasped as he fell forward. “You done this,” he said to Hughes before collapsing into the keeper's ...
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Under Siege: The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain
By Ian BullockShinwell then proposed MacDonald, whose candidacy was “opposed by Maxton with all the vehemence at his command” and also by Snowden, with “cold fury.” But the proposal was seconded by MacNeill Weir and carried.7 Soon thereafter, ...
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The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
By Sarah Carter, Alvin Finkel, Peter Fortna-- The book is broken into five sections and contains articles from both established and new scholars that broadly reflect findings of the conference "The West and Beyond:-- Historians Past, Present and Future" held in Edmonton, Alberta in ...
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An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land: Unfinished Conversations
By Jennifer S. H. BrownIn polar contrast, Stevens portrayed “Namawun” (Fair Wind) as “a celebrated conjuror” who “with his women, sons, and daughters lived at Opowangasse, and held the Indians round about in terror.” Influenced by the Deer Lakers' negative ...
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The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
By Bob BarnetsonThe Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain standard legitimacy.
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Canada’s Labour Market Training System
By Bob BarnetsonThis book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace ...
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Le Conseiller Pédagogique Réflexif: Un Journal de Bord
By Michael PowerSelon le professeur Robert Brien, père du design pédagogique dans la Francophonie, « le modèle de développement de cours que propose le professeur Power, dans son ouvrage, est souple et constitue un apport important au développement ...
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Xwelíqwiya: The Life of a Stó:lō Matriarch
By Richard Daly, Rena Point BoltonA Mr. Peabody and a Mr. Roder from Bellingham were appointed guardians ofthe unborn child, who was to be called after his father, but Father Chirouse at the Catholic mission of St. Mary's later mistakenly christened him Charles ...
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The Art of Communication in a Polarized World
By Kyle ConwayTranslated by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. New York: New Press, 1996. Bryzgel, Amy. “Chopped Earlobes and the Long History of Political Shock Art in Russia.” The Conversation, December 15, 2014. https://theconversation.
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Musing: Sonnets
By Jonathan Locke HartMusing is a book of sonnets, combining one of poetry's most classic forms with history and landscape.
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Dreamwork
By Jonathan Locke HartA typology of home and displacement, of natural beauty and industrial scars unfold in the movement of the book.
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Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
By Jack Brink... 107–12 associated with butchering, 112–3 Cheyenne, 38, 88, 113, 227, 245, 247 Chokecherries, 231–2 Clark, ... 56, 86 Deadmen, (see Cairns) Dempsey, Hugh A., 274–5 Densmore, Francis, 124, 214 Diseases, 243 Disguises, buffalo, ...
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The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner: A Transformational Journey
By Judy RashotteCourtesy Tom Phillips and The Folio Society. FIguRe 4 Hats 2. Courtesy Tom Phillips and The Folio Society. FIguRe 5 Hats 3. Courtesy Tom Phillips and The Folio Society. FIguRe 6 Hats 4. Courtesy Tom Phillips and The Folio Society.
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Trail of Story, Traveller's Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
By Leslie Main JohnsonJohnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies.
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The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
By Terry AndersonThe second edition of "The Theory and Practice of Online Learning" features updates in each chapter, plus four new chapters on current distance education issues such as connectivism and social software innovations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
By Mohamed AllyReaders 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 ...
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Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
By Angie Abdou, Jamie DoppIn a CBC interview following King Leary's Canada Reads win in 2008, Paul Quarrington responded to the idea that he and other Canadian writers may “overidentify” with hockey in their writing: “Overidentification with hockey in .
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh: A Critical Study
By Patrick GrantThere is a good deal of this kind of complaint as Van Gogh describes, first of all, a natural phenomenon — the actual winter wind chilling his flesh and capsizing his easel. But his interactions with nature are typically configured by ...
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Learning in Virtual Worlds: Research and Applications
By Sue Gregory, Mark J.W. Lee, Barney DalgarnoIn 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.