Course adoptions

Here is a selection of course-adoption-worthy titles you might consider including in your lists of essential readings. To review our suggestions for French-language books, click here.

You will find further inspiration in our full catalogue.

Academia (Lives in the Canadian Academic Landscape)

• The Academic Sabbatical: A Voyage of Discovery 
• The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure 
• Beyond the Academic Gateway: Looking back on the Tenure-Track Journey
• Braaaiiinnnsss!

Archaeology

• The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact 
• Place-Making in the Pretty Harbour: The Archaeology of Port Joli, Nova Scotia
• Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre: Essays on the Archaeology and History of New France and Canadian Culture in Honour of Jean-Pierre Chrestien
• The Life and Work of W. B. Nickerson (1865-1926)
• Contact in the 16th Century
• Petun to Wyandot
• Old Man’s Playing Ground
• Rewriting Marpole
• Discover more Mercury Series Archaeology titles

Bilingualism, Francophonie

• Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Minority Communities
• Canada’s Official Languages : Policy versus Work Practice in the Federal Public Service
• Language is the Key: The Canadian Language Benchmarks Model
• Also see our recommendations of French-language titles.

Biographies and Memoirs

• She Dared to Succeed: A Biography of the Honourable Marie-Paule Charette-Poulin (forthcoming)
• A Woman in Engineering: Memoirs of a Trailblazer – Monique (Aubry) Frize
• Mike Starr of Oshawa: A Political Biography
• Journey of a Thousand Miles: An Extraordinary Life – Ruey Yu
• Taking Aviation to New Heights: Pierre Jeanniot
• Jacob Isaac Segal : A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu 

Border Studies

• Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective
• North America’s Arctic Borders: A World of Change?
• Canada’s Fluid Borders
• Borders, Culture, and Globalization: A Canadian Perspective

Criminology

• Contemporary Criminological Issues
• Danse, enfermement et corps résilients | Dance, Confinement and Resilient Bodies
• Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark
• Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (discover the journal here)

Cultural Studies

• Mobilités culturelles – Cultural Mobilities

International Development, Globalization

• Canada and the Challenges of International Development and Globalization
• Innovating South-South Cooperation: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects
• Contextualizing Openness : Situating Open Science
• Life, Fish and Mangroves : Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia

Education

• Creating Visual Schedules (forthcoming)
• Seniors’ Learning in the Digital Age
• Religion and Schooling in Canada: The Long Road to Separation of Church and State
• Immersion at the University Level: Rethinking Policies, Approaches, and Implementation
• Reconceptualizing Teacher Education: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge
• Scripting Feminist Ethics in Teacher Education
• The Elective Mind: Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree
• Moving Images of Eternity : George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
• Immersion at the University Level: Rethinking Policies, Approaches, and Implementation
• Reconceptualizing Teacher Education: A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge
• International Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers

Governance

• Chairing Successful Meetings: Lespérance Code
• The Entrepreneurial Effect: Practical Ideas from Your Own Virtual Board of Advisors
• Profession: Public Servant
• Stewardship: Collaborative Decentred Metagovernance and Inquiring Systems
• Scheming virtuously: The Road to Collaborative Governance
• Challenges in Public Health Governance : The Canadian Experience

Health, Health Care, Mental Health

• Transformative Physical Rehabilitation: Thriving After a Major Health Event
• Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 
• Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Minority Communities
• Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?
• The Evolved Self
• Touch in the Helping Professions
• Zenstudies, Zenstudies 1: Making a Healthy Transition to Higher Education – Facilitator’s Guide and Participant’s Workbook 
• Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Minority Communities
• Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?
• Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19 
• Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Minority Communities
• Recovering the Body : A Philosophical Story

History

• History of the Jews in Quebec 
• 1968 in Canada: A Year and Its Legacies
• A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People: Voices in Le Devoir’s Editorials
• Jacob Isaac Segal : A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu 
• Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914–1945
• Pier 21 : A History 
• Thomas Mackay: The Laird of Rideau Hall and the Founding of Ottawa
• Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices from Canada
• Mike Starr of Oshawa: A Political Biography
• The Blue Shirts : Adrien Arcand and Fascinst Anti-Semitism in Canada
• Town and Crown: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Capital
• The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
• The Life and Work of W. B. Nickerson (1865-1926)
• A Nation Beyond Borders : Lionel Groulx on French-Canadian Minorities
• Charcot in Morocco
• L’Ère électrique – The Electric Age

Indigenous Studies

• Comparing Mythologies 
• The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact 
• Contact in the 16th Century: Networks Among Fishers, Foragers and Farmers

Jewish Studies (including study of anti-semitism)

• History of the Jews in Quebec
• A Reluctant Welcome for Jewish People: Voices in Le Devoir’s Editorials
• Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu 
• The Blue Shirts : Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada

Law, Media, Technology

• The Future of Open Data
• Citizenship in a Connected Canada
• Law and the “Sharing Economy” : Regulating Onling Market Platforms
• Ethical Hacking
• Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
• eAccess to Justice
• Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era
• eGirls, eCitizens
• The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
• Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism

Literature and Literary Criticism

• Sofia Tolstaya, the Author: Her Literary Works in English TranslationAlice Munro’s Miraculous Art: Critical Essays 
• Creative Theatre, by Roy Mitchell: A Critical Edition
• Hugh Garner’s Best Stories: A Critical Edition
• Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
• Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: A Study in Historic Relationships. Expanded and Revised Edition
• Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers: The Complete Correspondence 
• Robert Kroetsch : Essayist, Novelist, Poet 
• They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen: A Critical Edition
• A Blanket Against Darkness 
• Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan 
• The Complete Poems of Emile Nelligan 
• The Making of Nicolas Montour 
• Marie Calumet 
• The Forest
• The Grandfathers 
• Ashini 
• Fanny 
• The Fate of Bonté III
• The God of Gods, A Canadian Play by Caroll Aikins: A Critical Edition 
• The 1940 Under the Volcano
• In Ballast to the White Sea 
• Death Sentences 
• The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington (poetry; critical edition) 
• This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan (novel; critical edition)
• Swinging the Maelstrom 
• Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, by Susanna Moodie  
• Cloudburst (short story collection)
• Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue 
• They Divided the Sky : A Novel by Christa Wolf (novel)
• Worlding Sei Shônagon : The Pillow Book in Translation
• Man Should Rejoice, by Hugh MacLennan 
• Eight Men Speak, a Play by Oscar Ryan and al. 
• The Wrong World: Selected Stories & Essays of Bertram Brooker 

Literature and Literary Criticism

Ottawa 

• The Unimagined Canadian Capital: Challenges for the Federal Capital Region
• Town and Crown: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Capital
• Warring Sovereignties : Church Control and State Pressure at the University of Ottawa
• An Insider’s Guide to Canada’s Capital

Philosophy

• The Elective Mind: Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree
• Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking (vol. 1)
• Northrop Frye and Others: The Order of Words (vol. II)
• Northrop Frye and Others: Interpenetrating Visions (vol. III)
• Hockey and Philosophy
• Recovering the Body : A Philosophical Story
• Migrating Texts and Traditions
• The Hermes Complex : Philosophical Reflections on Translation
• Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom

Politics and Public Policy

• Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability
• Borders, Culture, and Globalization: A Canadian Perspective
• Canadian Perspectives on Community Development 
• Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada’s Provinces and Territories 
• Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
• Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Minority Communities
• Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?
• Sharing Spaces : Essays in honour of Sherry Olson
• The Future of Open Data
• Citizenship in a Connected Canada
• Canada’s Official Languages : Policy versus Work Practice in the Federal Public Service
• Language is the Key
• Sport Policy in Canada
• Challenges in Public Health Governance : The Canadian Experience

Slavic Studies

• Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters 
• Sofia Tolstaya, the Author: Her Literary Works in English Translation
• Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: A Study in Historic Relationships. Expanded and Revised Edition. 
• Leo Tolstoy in Conversation with Four Peasant Sectarian Writers: The Complete Correspondence 

Social Sciences, Social Justice

Translation

• A Journey in Translation : Anne Hébert’s Poetry in English
• Voice and Versification in Translating Poems
• The Hermes Complex : Philosophical Reflections on Translation

Religious Studies

• Islam in the West : Beyond Integration
• Choosing Buddhism: The Life Stories of Eight Canadians

Women’s Studies

• Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices from Canada 
• eGirls, eCitizens
• Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism

Writing and methodology 

• Academic Writing for Military Personnel