University of Alberta Press

11/28/2025

We are delighted to share that the American Society for Indexing has selected Stephen Ullstrom as the winner of the ASI Indexing Award for his index for Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse by Gregory Phipps.

Congratulations, Stephen!

Read more on our blog: https://bit.ly/48vHg4N

11/27/2025

"This is an important book for it reminds us where conservation efforts started in Alberta and that the need for conservation is just as relevant and ongoing today."
Lorne A. Fitch, author of Conservation Confidential

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11/26/2025

MELTDOWN is for readers interested in outdoor adventure, science, women in science, and the career paths we want to follow versus those we feel we should follow. It is a unique combination of memoir, autobiographical life story, science and travel writing.
https://bit.ly/41lawaq

Get 30% off using code iH25 for print editions or iE25 for e-editions. Offer ends November 30.

11/25/2025

From 25 November to 10 December 2025, mark the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence.
This year, the theme is “UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls.”

Violence against women and girls affects one in three women. It is a global human rights emergency that must stop. As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action—one of the most progressive international agreements on women’s rights to date—the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE 2025 campaign focuses on one of the fastest-growing forms of abuse: digital violence against women and girls. This year’s campaign is also a reminder that digital safety is central to gender equality.

1 in 3 women is affected by violence. Join the 16 Days of Activism this year to call on governments to end digital abuse and place online safety at the heart of equality.

11/24/2025

Edmonton friends, join us at our Open House on Wednesday, December 3 from 3 to 5 pm. We have lots to celebrate!

All are welcome.
Remarks at 4 pm.
Henderson Hall, Rutherford Library South
University of Alberta

11/21/2025

Sharmin Sadequee, the editor of SECULARISM, RACE, AND THE POLITICS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, has spent the last 15 years researching and recording the experiences of immigrant and natural-born Muslims within the legal and political systems.

Read more about the book: https://bit.ly/40EgJOn

Holiday sale: Order on our website before November 30 with code iH25 and get 30% off.

11/20/2025

CARTOGRAPHIC POETRY showcases five maps: some of the oldest documents created by Indigenous people on the North American prairies and foothills. They preserve invaluable evidence about places on the landscape, and about historic Blackfoot views of their territories.

(Holiday sale: 30% off purchases from our website using code iH25. Order before November 30.)

The maps were intended as navigational tools, but the landforms and locations on the maps hold significance for the Blackfoot well beyond wayfinding, and have for many centuries.

Exploring their content and utility from historical, linguistic, and archaeological perspectives, Ted Binnema, François Lanoë, and Heinz W. Pyszczyk analyze the maps, their place names and features, and the tours and trips they may have supported, along with providing present-day photographs of many of the maps’ landforms.

A final section of the book outlines how Indigenous maps contributed significantly to Western geographical knowledge and maps of North America from the 1500s onward. Cartographic Poetry will appeal to readers interested in how Indigenous peoples perceived and navigated their territories in this early period of colonial encounter.

With a Foreword by Jerry Potts Jr. and an Afterword by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn.

https://bit.ly/48SH9Rx

11/19/2025

FRANK FARLEY AND THE BIRDS OF ALBERTA should be read by anyone interested in the development of environmental sciences in Canada and the transitions of human life and the natural environment in the prairie provinces during the early 20th century.

About the book: https://bit.ly/4fLGh2E
Holiday Sale: Get 30% off using code iH25 for print editions or iE25 for e-editions. Offer ends November 30.

Listen to a 3-minute interview with author Glen Hvenegaard: https://bit.ly/4r9EJ7P

11/17/2025

Edmonton friends! University of Alberta Press is hosting an open house and reception to welcome Director and Publisher Darcy Cullen and Acquisitions Editor Kay Rollans.

Dec. 3 | 3 - 5 p.m. MST | Henderson Hall | 1-17 Rutherford Library South | University of Alberta. Remarks at 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

11/15/2025

Arnab Dutta Roy, co-editor of THE POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN, is interviewed on New Books Network. You can listen here: https://bit.ly/4nBBCTn

About the Book
The co-editors bring together essays from scholars on diverse topics of literature, narrative, genre, and critical theory that look at the different articulations of the postcolonial bildungsroman and examine the intersection of traditional forms with modern questions of identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate crisis, and neoliberal globalization. The chapters highlight how the bildungsroman is reimagined by writers from a wide range of formerly colonized regions across the globe including South, Southeast, and East Asia, the Middle East, the US, Latin America, Canada, regions across Africa, and the African diaspora, Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand. It also features works written in Italian, Hindi, or Japanese.

11/14/2025

University of Alberta Press is pleased to announce that Kay Rollans will join us as our new Acquisitions Editor as of December 1, 2025. She will work alongside Michelle Lobkowicz in supporting authors and pursuing book projects that enhance the breadth and focus of our publishing program.

Welcome, Kay!

https://bit.ly/48cNwOL

11/13/2025

The AU Presses' Book, Journal, and Jacket Show is on display in Edmonton.
Now 60, the show honours university publishing design and production. By recognizing achievement in design, production, and manufacture, it sparks thoughtful and creative ideas.
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