Blog — ...is the driver of technological advance and cultural revolution. Knowledge can change the world – if we let it. As with any endeavour, the products of academic labour tend to...
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Blog — ...never visited the iconic location in southern Alberta, but it is on my bucket list, and I’m hoping this book will make my first visit to the UNESCO World Heritage...
Blog — ...Although we publish authors from around the world on topics from distance education to labour studies to memoirs, our Alberta authors and the research they share about our province are...
Blog — ...Crowds “The goal for any academic should be to increase the amount of knowledge in the world, so the removal of barriers to spreading that knowledge can only be a...
Blog — Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is an annual gathering of dozens of academic associations in Canada. It runs from May 12 to 20 and is fully virtual for...
Blog — ...an article that appeared in The Atlantic in 2012, that, “no country in the world is more mis-characterized in Western eyes than Iran.” As Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson state...
Blog — ...participants in the design of their future lives? How could those seeking refuge be encouraged to actively participate in the policies that impact them? What might that transformative world of...
Blog — This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver by Todd McCallum. This monograph explores Vancouver’s “hobo jungle,” and forces us...
Blog — Next week, AU Press will be celebrating Open Access Week, an international celebration of open access publishing, scholarship, and research. This year, we, AU Press, are also celebrating our tenth...
Blog — Fearful of losing her family’s history and her father’s memories about Jewish life during World War II in Iran, Farideh Goldin asked Baba, as she called her father, to write...