And just like that, the holidays are over and we’re back to our routines of reading, writing, researching, editing, teaching, and learning. To celebrate the start of a new year and a new reading list for students, we are sharing our top course-adopted books from the past few years. These books have proven themselves to be valuable resources in undergraduate and graduate classrooms and the open access versions have been well-used by students and professors alike.
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place
From political science and cultural identity to ecology, Indigenous studies, and gender studies, this interdisciplinary has been on a wide variety of syllabi. Living on the Land examines how patriarchy, gender, and colonialism have shaped the experiences of Indigenous women as both knowers and producers of knowledge. From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to the volume explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape.
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
Museums are important cultural institutions responsible for remembering, educating, and protecting. However, the ethics behind some collection practices and rightful ownership have been called into question. We Are Coming Home is an essential resource for courses on art and ethics, material culture, museums and Indigenous communities, and cultural policy. This volume chronicles the highly intricate process of repatriation of medicine bundles from the Glenbow Museum to the elders of the Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai people.
Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada
The authors of Transparent Lives investigated the major ways in which both government and private sector organizations gather, monitor, analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens. The result is a volume that raises urgent questions of privacy and social justice. Used in courses that look at surveillance studies, politics, and privacy, Transparent Lives is also a valuable resource for legislators, journalists, and the general public.
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry
Blended learning has combined face-to-face and online learning environments for a more flexible approach to education. This book addresses the growing demand for improved teaching in higher education and offers a valuable set of tools for future and current educators to harness the opportunities that technology provides.
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
This book explores the connections between the history of transiency and that of Fordism, offering a new interpretation of the economic and political crises that wracked Canada in the early years of the Great Depression. This fresh perspective on a critical moment in Canadian history has proven useful in labour history courses as well as courses on Canadian identity and history and city studies.
If you are an instructor who is interested in an examination copy of any AU Press book, please email our marketing and editorial assistant at aupress@athabascau.ca with the course name and number and the title of the book.
