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.
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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
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
- Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters
- Sofia Tolstaya, the Author: Her Literary Works in English Translation
- Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art: Critical Essays
- The Demons of Leonard Cohen
- 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
- French Canadian Prose Masters: The Nineteenth Century
- The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: A Bibliography
- Shakespeare and Canada : Remembrance of Ourselves
- Voice and Versification in Translating Poems
- Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space
- Translocated Modernisms : Paris and Other Lost Generations
- A Journey in Translation : Anne Hébert’s Poetry in English
- Meet Me on the Barricades, by Charles Yale Harrison: A Critical Edition
- Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story
- The God of Gods, A Canadian Play by Caroll Aikins: A Critical Edition
- The 1940 Under the Volcano
- This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan
- The Worlds of Carol Shields
- In Ballast to the White Sea
- The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
- Home Ground and Foreign Territory
- This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan
- Swinging the Maelstrom
- Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue
- Double-Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film
- Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, by Susanna Moodie
- 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)
- Conversations with Trotsky: Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s
- Divided Highways: Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada
- 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
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
- Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions : Refuge Through Activism at Ottawa’s St. Joe’s Parish
- Canadian Perspectives on Community Development
- Islam in the West : Beyond Integration
- The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
- Homelessness & Health in Canada
- Identity Theft and Fraud : Evaluating and Managing Risk
- Charcot in Morocco
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
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