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Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century

The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier and place the island within broad transnational networks such as the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, and more.

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Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System

Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings. Using an anti-colonial lens, alternative conceptualizations and practices of justice are explored.

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Principles of Blended Learning

In this volume, the authors further explore and refine the blended learning principles presented in their first book, Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, with an added focus on designing, facilitating, and directing collaborative blended learning environments by emphasizing the concept of shared metacognition.

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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

How to Read Like You Mean It

Kyle Conway

Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins

Imperfection

Patrick Grant

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Spring 2024 at AU Press

AU Press is proud to present our Spring 2024 catalogue featuring four exciting new titles, including an addition to our popular Issues in Distance Education series. From investigating border zones…

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International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women’s rights movement. The holiday brings much-needed attention to issues such as…

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