“Sports are about identity and belonging, about our place in the world and how we see ourselves,” says David Taras in the introductory chapter to How Canadians Communicate V: Sports,…
AU Press’s most recent publication, Scaling Up, is a community-focused book that features case studies of the social economies of Alberta and British Columbia. The social economy is developed when citizens…
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…
The Teacher and the Superintendent follows the lives of two eager individuals whose misguided efforts to assimilate the Alaska Natives reflect the motives of both the church and the government….
Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins provides an analysis of the world of online discourse as it relates to…
The oil and gas industry accounts for less than 10% of Canada’s GDP but the deleterious effects of the political power wielded by the industry is felt across the country….
The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. After the recent…