Athabasca University Press is Canada’s first open access scholarly press. Founded in 2007 with the principal aim of reducing barriers to knowledge and increasing access to scholarship, AU Press is committed to bringing the work of emerging and established scholars to the public. With both an open-access journal and monograph program, they make a significant contribution to the growing body of academic and literary work that is available to a global readership at no cost to the reader.
The Wikimedia Movement in Canada
Communities, Institutions, and Free Culture
Lookout Cave
The Archaeology of Perishable Remains on the Northern Plains
This fully illustrated volume sheds new light on Plains culture and the centuries old use of the well-hidden space at Lookout Cave.
The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213
Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
Exploring Agency in Children and Youth
Expressions and Constraints
Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again
Historical Ecology and Ethnobotany in Laxyuubm Gitselasu
An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal
The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
On Othering
Processes and Politics of Unpeace
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism
Grieving for Pigeons, Revised Edition
Twelve Stories of Lahore
Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Principles of Blended Learning
Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry
The Law is (Not) for Kids, Revised and Updated Edition
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
Not Hockey
Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature
How Education Works
Teaching, Technology, and Technique
Violence, Imagination, and Resistance
Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power
Indigiqueerness
A Conversation about Storytelling
Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change
Memory and Landscape
Indigenous Responses to a Changing North
Little Wet-Paint Girl
Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence
Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature
A Sales Tax for Alberta
Why and How
In this collection, Alberta scholars and policy experts map out why and how a provincial sales tax should and can be implemented as the days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by.
Screening Nature and Nation
The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
World Bolshevism
In 1903, at the close of the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the socialist party had split into two factions, those that would follow Lenin’s proposed revolutionary path and those that would follow Iulii Martov—a group that would call themselves the Mensheviks. In this edition, Martov’s only book is ably translated by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentyeva, making it available in English in its complete form for the first time in a hundred years.
Under the Nakba Tree
In this moving memoir, a Palestinian man recalls his childhood in Canada and the struggles he faced at the intersection of indigeneity, national identity, and marginality.
Bucking Conservatism
Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
With chapters by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the lasting influence of Alberta’s nonconformists.
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"Truth Behind Bars"
Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution
The temporary class of peasants-in-uniform, unmotivated by Lenin’s vision of democracy, that brought down the Russian Revolution.
Plastic Legacies
Pollution, Persistence, and Politics
Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics.
Dissenting Traditions
Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History
The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contemporaries, students, and sometimes critics to examine and expand on the topics and themes that have defined Palmer’s career, from labour history to Marxism and communist politics.
Regime of Obstruction
How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy
Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. This book provides essential context to the climate crisis and will transform discussions of energy democracy.