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…
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,…
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…
*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…
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…
Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley published the book that would end up on high school and university reading lists centuries later. Her famous novel, Frankenstein, is iconic and adaptations…
Feature photo by Owen Byrne from Mountain View, USA (Encounter) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The following excerpt is from Michael R. W. Dawson’s latest book, Connectionist Representations of…
On International Women’s Day (March 8), we celebrate the achievements of women and we take a hard look at what still needs to be done to achieve gender parity and…
In this three-part series that reflects conversations had at the launch of Public Deliberation on Climate Change and explored in the book, we will feature the successes, lessons, and a…
In this three-part series that reflects conversations had at the launch of Public Deliberation on Climate Change and explored in the book, we will feature the successes, lessons, and a…