Wheat farmers hate gophers. The little critters cut the stalks and run off with the grain—particularly when the year is dry and the crop is light. Furthermore, to the disgust…
This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is a backlist gem. Published in 2011, Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains by Frances W. Kaye is at once an ode to West…
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…
This week’s #AUPBookOfTheWeek is Mark McCutcheon’s debut collection of poetry, Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them. In this inventive collection of poems, Mark A. McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play…
In this inventive collection of poems, Mark A. McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition, cut-up, and defamiliarization. Moving from eroticism to the macabre…
by Jason A. Openo Assessment Strategies for Online Learning: Engagement and Authenticity by Dianne Conrad and Jason Openo is our #AUPBookOfTheWeek. This article, by one of the co-authors, originally appeared…
Welcome to the third instalment of #AUPBookOfTheWeek. This week, we’re highlighting a book that contains very timely advice for anyone who is now working in an online classroom. Assessment Strategies…
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place edited by Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez brings together Indigenous women scholars to discuss the marginalization of the knowledge traditionally held…
This year marks ten years since the devastating earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010. Joegodson Déralciné, a furniture maker living in Canaan, Haiti at the time, describes the intimate details of the lives of the poor in Haiti and how he survived.
Welcome to our first #AUPBookOfTheWeek selection! We are excited to be launching this campaign to showcase recent releases, backlist gems, and some bestselling books. Our first pick is Rocks in…