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  • Mountain masculinity
    Author: Gow, Andrew, Rak, Julie, Athabasca University Press
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    In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing...

  • How Canadians communicate VI
    Author: Elliott, Charlene, Athabasca University Press
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    Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. Food choices not only express our personal tastes but also communicate a range of beliefs, values...

  • The digital nexus
    Author: Foshay, Raphael, Athabasca University Press
    Summary:

    Over half a century ago, in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan noted that the overlap of traditional print and new electronic media like radio and television produced widespread...

  • The teacher and the superintendent
    Author: Boulter II, George E., Grigor-Taylor, Barbara, Athabasca University Press
    Summary:

    From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and...

  • Alberta oil and the decline of democracy in Canada
    Author: Stefanick, Lorna, Shrivastava, Meenal, Athabasca University Press
    Summary:

    Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went...