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New in Sociology
The Scientific Method in Forensic Science
Written for the Canadian forensic science student and the professional practitioner, this timely and practical handbook provides an experience based learning tool. This text offers an understanding of scientific method and evidence-based analysis and how they relate to forensic science and its casework—from the crime scene to the courtroom—within the Canadian context. The authors explore the paradigm shift in forensic science, highlight basic skills like scientific reasoning and literature review, as well as untangle the complexities of ethics and bias, research design, critical thought, an... -
New in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Feminist Food Studies
This expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with a feminist intersectional perspective, addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits, and perspectives. Throughout the text, international scholars explore three areas in feminist food studies: the socio-cultural, the corporeal, and the material. The textbook’s chapters intersect as they examine how food is linked to hegemony, identity, and tradition, while contributors offer diverse perspectives that stem from biology, museum studies, economics, popular culture, and h... -
New in Sociology
Research Methods, Second Edition
Now in its second edition, Research Methods offers students a highly accessible and engaging introduction to research methodology from a uniquely Canadian perspective. This text examines both qualitative and quantitative research methods from the early planning stages to writing proposals and reports, including common errors in reasoning and research, alongside inquiry paradigms, theoretical frameworks, and relevant literature reviews. It also covers ethics, design and measurement, sampling, experiments, and surveys, as well as unobtrusive methods, qualitative interviewing, ethnography, mix... -
New in Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Food Systems
Unlike any other resource on the market, this textbook explores a diverse array of Indigenous food systems from across Canada, including Anishinaabeg, Asatiwisipe, Cree, Métis, Migmag, and Tsartlip. Seeking solutions to food insecurity and well-being for current and future generations, Indigenous and non-Indigenous food practitioners and scholars document the voices and experiences of community members encountered in their research, thus promoting an understanding of the barriers and challenges to Indigenous food systems and presenting ways used to reclaim cultural identity and food soverei... -
New in Education
The Role of an Education Assistant
A ground-breaking new textbook, The Role of an Education Assistant offers guidance and insight to students who are learning about the growing and complex role of education assistants. This includes how to support academic, social, inclusive, and independent learning environments in schools and collaborate with parents and teachers in the planning and evaluation of student progress. Divided into four sections, this text addresses education assistant professional standards, mental health and wellness, culture and diversity, and the challenge of supporting all students in the classroom. -
New in Criminology
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Criminal Practice
Lawyers, Crown counsels, district attorneys, and paralegals are often tasked with managing negotiation and conflict resolution in the courtroom; however, very little theory or literature surrounding this specialization exists. This handbook effectively closes these gaps and extensively discusses theories of negotiation and conflict resolution in criminal practice. -
New in Criminology and Police Studies
Police Response to Mental Health in Canada
The overwhelming majority of police calls involve individuals with mental health experiences and yet limited resources exist to prepare first responders for these interactions. Police Response to Mental Health in Canada addresses this gap in the field, providing practical guidance to police studies students on how best to respond to mental health-related calls in both critical and non-critical situations.In addition, this book focuses on the mental health of policing professionals by addressing common mental health symptoms and providing strategies to improve the mental health wellness of p... -
New in French Studies
En super forme
Simone Renaud et Jean-Luc Desalvo nous offrent un nouveau manuel scolaire dont nous attendons la sortie avec impatience. En super forme est un livre concis, qui présente l’essentiel des règles de la Grammaire Française, organisées logiquement, avec de nombreuses références avec la langue anglaise. Les auteurs ont renforcé cette partie théorique de courts extraits de littérature contemporaine, ou de textes originaux pour illustrer le thème grammatical de chaque chapitre. Ils ont ajouté des exercices de soutien, des traductions, et des suggestions de rédactions. L’aspect culturel n’est pré... -
New in Health Studies
Staying Alive, Third Edition
Now in its third edition, Staying Alive provides readers with a fresh perspective on health, health care, and illness in Canada and abroad. Aiming to bring about positive change to these health care systems and grounded in a human rights approach to health, this unique collection includes chapters on the social construction of illness and disability, social determinants of health, and current critical issues in the field. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and includes recent national and international developments in health care, with current world statistics and an emphasis on ... -
New in Health Studies
The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada, Second Edition
The second edition of the formerly titled Just Say Know: A Counsellor’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, this indispensable counselling resource provides a practical understanding of psychoactive drug pharmacology and physiology. Rick Csiernik unpacks the risks and therapeutic applications of the most commonly used and misused drug families, including depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and psychotherapeutics. This new edition features a wide range of updated research and content addressing the recent rise of opioid, fentanyl, cannabis, novel psychoactive substances, and antipsychotic m... -
New in Education
Teaching about Gender Diversity
Teaching about Gender Diversity is an edited collection of teacher-tested interdisciplinary lesson plans that provides K–12 teachers with the tools to implement gender-inclusive practices into their curriculum and talk to their students about gender and sex. Divided into three sections dedicated to the elementary, middle, and secondary grade levels, this practical resource provides lessons for a variety of subject areas, including English language arts, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), and health and physical education. The lessons range from reading aloud early lit... -
New in Gender and Women's Studies
The Black Girlhood Studies Collection
This groundbreaking text is one of the first collections to exclusively explore, develop, and evaluate theories of Black girls and Black girlhoods. This contributed volume brings together emerging and established scholars from North America to discuss what Black girlhood means historically and in the 21st century, and how concepts of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and nationality inform or affect identities of Black girls beyond school or urban settings. -
New this Spring
New Decade, New Catalogue!
With over thirty years of experience in publishing established and emerging scholars in Canada and abroad, Canadian Scholars and Women's Press is excited to share with you our latest and most-anticipated titles this Spring! Request a hard copy of our catalogue today! -
New in Gender and Women's Studies
Women and Popular Culture in Canada
Covering a wide range of topics from historical perspectives to recent events, media, and technologies, this collection acts as an introduction, an archive, and a continuing commitment to lifting the voices and stories of women and non-binary people and popular culture in Canada. -
New in Social Work
Working with Families, Second Edition
Through clinical and sociological perspectives and employing a strengths-based approach, this newly updated edition of Working with Families provides a broad overview of factors affecting Canadian families such as diverse family structures, healthy and unhealthy forms of communication, family culture and beliefs, couple dynamics, addiction, and developmental and psychiatric disabilities. -
New in Language Studies
Teaching English
Designed as an all-in-one guide, this practical, easy to use text is essential to all courses offering instruction to students who are training to become language teachers in Canada and abroad. Awarded the 2017 TESL Canada Innovation Award for Teacher Professional Development Resource, this wonderfully concise textbook covers key topics including course design, lesson planning, and classroom management. It also identifies how to teach speaking, listening, reading, and writing, with special attention to language acquisition and intercultural communication. This essential resource is ideal fo... -
New in Education
Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada
Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada aims to build space in the academy for Indigenous peoples and resistance and reconciliation. This 18-chapter collection is built around the two connecting themes of Indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing post-secondary institutions. With the goal to advance and transform the Canadian academy, the authors of this volume discuss strategies for shifting power dynamics and Eurocentric perspectives within higher education. -
New in Communication Studies
Intercultural Communication
Written to reflect a diverse Canada, Intercultural Communication is a practical guide that provides readers with effective approaches to intercultural communication theories and strategies. Situating readers in real, complex, and extraordinary intercultural scenarios, each chapter walks students through examples of how to manage conversations in appropriate and meaningful ways, while exploring how social and cultural practices might present common and uncommon implications. Key topics include verbal and non-verbal communication, cultural values, self-awareness, stereotypes, and digital comm... -
New in Education
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies
Bringing together researchers from geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse regions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies offers practical guidance and lessons learned from research projects in and with Indigenous communities around the world. With an aim to examine issues of power, representation, participation, and accountability in studies involving Indigenous populations, the contributors reflect on their own experiences conducting collaborative research in distinct yet related fields. -
New in Child and Youth
Child and Youth Care in the Field
The first of its kind, this practicum-specific resource serves as an accompanying guidebook for fieldwork, placement, or classroom instruction in child and youth care practice. Child and Youth Care in the Field: A Practicum Guidebook uses critical reflection to facilitate student learning and growth throughout the practicum experience. -
New in Health Studies
Poverty in Canada, Third Edition
Now in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring poverty; situational and societal causes of poverty; health and social implications for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing poverty’s incidence and responding to its effects. -
Take Care: An Update from Canadian Scholars & Women's PressAs we continue to find ourselves in extraordinary circumstances, Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press would like to acknowledge the changes and disruptions the academic community is currently coping with. We would first like to emphasize that we are committed to protecting the health and safety of our staff as well as the instructors and authors that make up our community during this uncertain time.
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New in Indigenous Studies
Research and Reconciliation
In this edited collection, leading scholars seek to disrupt Eurocentric research methods by introducing students, professors, administrators, and practitioners to frameworks of Indigenous research methods through a lens of reconciliation. The foundation of this collection is rooted in each contributor’s unique conception of reconciliation, which extends beyond the parameters of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to include a broader, more global approach to reconciliation. More pointedly, contributors discuss how effective research is when it’s demonstrated through acts of reco...
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In The News
Awards
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Indigenous Food Systems is a Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner!
Indigenous Food Systems, edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla, has been recognized by t... -
Lee Maracle Awarded the 2017 Bonham Centre Award
The Bonham Centre Awards were established in 2008 to recognize an individual or group that has ma... -
Becoming Girl: Collective Biography and the Production of Girlhood
Marnina Gonick and Susanne Gannon's Becoming Girl were selected as one of the honourable mentions...