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Transform Your City

Resources for City Officials and Informed Citizens Living in an urban space means being part of a community, multiple communities, in fact. From your apartment building to your neighbourhood, and…

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Social Scholarship

How Academia Could Benefit from Reading Technology I’d pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If…

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Athabasca University Press has been giving books away for free for over ten years. In 2007, we took advantage of the internet to disrupt traditional publishing systems and break down…

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Alberta Book Day

Alberta boasts twenty-eight active book publishers who contribute significantly to Alberta’s culture and GDP. You’ll find university presses, trade publishers, and publishers of learning resources and guidebooks in Edmonton, Calgary,…

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The Newsletter: May

Events May 3: In just a few days, we will be grooving to Mark McCutcheon’s soundtrack for The Medium Is the Monster at his book launch. We will be celebrating…

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*according to our forthcoming book Writing the Body in Motion. Forthcoming from AU Press in May 2018, Writing the Body in Motion considers Canadian sport literature in the context of…

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The Newsletter: April

Events April 12: Beers and books! We are launching Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401 by Jason Foster at Blind Enthusiasm Brewery. We are excited to be partnering…

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