In 2014, Meytal Radzinski, a young scholar, founded Women in Translation Month to be held annually in August in response to the gender disparity she noticed in works of translation. Radzinski’s…
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…
The interest and demand for online terminal degrees across disciplines by professionals wishing to conduct research and fulfill doctoral degree requirements at a distance is only increasing. But what these…
June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. This day is an essential celebration of the contributions of Indigenous peoples and an acknowledgement of their experiences, stories, and culture….
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…
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…