Popular Course Adoption Titles

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Below you will find our most popular titles used for university courses. McGill-Queen's Press is pleased to provide examination copies (for books not yet adopted) or desk copies (for books adopted) to professors teaching at universities and colleges in appropriate fields, subject to availability. More information on course adoption is available here.

Anthropology / Archaeology
Bennett/Rowley		Uqalurait
		An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.
Flannery		Ellen Smallboy
		The intimate story of a Cree woman's life and of the old ways of the James Bay Cree.
Phillips		Museum Pieces
		The politics of Canadian museums and the international impact of the innovations they have stimulated.

Art / Architecture
Carney		Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955
		A window onto the perspectives of Canadian artists during three eventful decades of local and global history.
Davis		Desire Change
		Bringing together contemporary Canadian feminist art through the entangled relations of desire and desire for change.
O'Brian/White		Beyond Wilderness, Second Edition
		The legacy of the Group of Seven and the reinvention of Canadian landscape art since the 1960s.
Phillips		Museum Pieces
		The politics of Canadian museums and the international impact of the innovations they have stimulated.
Williams		Landscape Architecture in Canada
		A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada.

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Economics
Blustein		Laid Low
		The International Monetary Fund’s role in the euro-zone crisis.
de Mestral		Second Thoughts
		International investment experts provide thoughts on investor-state arbitration between developed democracies.
Green, et al		Income Inequality
		A comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends.

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Environmental Studies
Lipsig-Mummé/McBride		Work in a Warming World
		Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context.
Mulgan		Ethics for a Broken World
		Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe
Riley/Cook		The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
		A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

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Gender / Women's studies
Craig		Putting Trials on Trial
		An interrogation of sexual assault law and a legal process that traumatizes complainants.
Davis		Desire Change
		Bringing together contemporary Canadian feminist art through the entangled relations of desire and desire for change.
Dorais		Don’t Tell, Second Edition
		First-hand accounts by male victims and insightful analysis and strategies for coping with sexual abuse.
Dorais		Dead Boys Can't Dance
		A provocative, ground-breaking study of the tragic consequences of homophobia.
Dorais/Corriveau		Gangs and Girls
		Understanding and preventing gang-organized juvenile prostitution.
Dorais		Rent Boys
		From the acclaimed author of Don't Tell and Dead Boys Can't Dance. Candid interviews and personal stories highlight a provocative exploration of the lives of male street hustlers, strippers, and escorts.
Doyle		Making Out in the Mainstream
		A behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of LGBT media activism during a period of rapid societal change.
Light, et al		Bodily Subjects
		Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health care works today.
Nyeck/Epprecht		Sexual Diversity in Africa
		A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Plaxton		Implied Consent and Sexual Assault
		Revisiting the doctrine of implied consent in Canadian sexual assault law.
Sethna/Hewitt		Just Watch Us
		A remarkable investigation of state spying on women’s liberation during the Cold War.
Sharp/Taylor		Feminist Philosophies of Life
		Exploring life's character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.
Smith-Prei/Stehle		Awkward Politics
		A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.
Stavro		Emancipatory Thinking
		A sustained defence of the political importance and ongoing relevance of the ideas of the French writer, feminist, and philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir.

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Health
Armstrong/Day		Wash, Wear, and Care
		How clothing and laundry provide a window on to the structuring of care and work in nursing homes.
Carson/Nossal		A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda
		Exploring the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy.
Duckett/Peetoom		Canadian Medicare
		A rousing call to continue Canada's public health insurance program rather than rely on private insurance.
Duckett		Where to from Here?
		The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.
Julien		A Different Kind of Care
		An alternative and compassionate way to treat troubled children.
Kenyon		Resilience and Contagion
		An in-depth study of why civil society advocacy groups working on HIV choose the language of rights.
McCreary/Jones		Intellectual Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis
		An indispensable survey of the definitions, assessments, and treatments of individuals with developmental disabilities.
Pluye, et al		Look It Up!
		A behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.
Stone, et al		Working Bodies
		An informative look at the experience of navigating the Canadian workplace while living with chronic illness.

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History
Blake/Holman		The Same but Different
		Canada may be all about hockey, but how much does the rest of Canada know about the game in Quebec?
Bond		War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970
		A bold and trenchant survey showing the enormous influence war has exerted on European society since 1870.
Brown		The Illustrated History of Canada, 25th Anniversary Edition
		The first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country, fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century.
Cook		Watching Quebec
		Classic essays analysing the roots and growth of nationalism in Quebec.
Crnobrnja		The Yugoslav Drama, Second Edition
		An examination of the circumstances that transformed a stable, prosperous country into a Balkan powder-keg.
Dickinson/Young		A Short History of Quebec, Fourth Edition
		An updated version of a foundational study of Quebec history.
Ducharme		The Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838
		An argument for competing ideals of liberty as a motivation for the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada.
Friedland		Restoring the Spirit
		The untold story of early-twentieth-century women's role in developing an essential area of health care.
Hale		War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620
		A brilliant analysis of the relation between state, war, and society in early modern Europe.
Holman		Canada's Game
		Hockey's ability to tell stories about Canada that reflect the country's uniqueness - its strengths and weaknesses.
Hubbard/Grace		A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
		A fresh look at an incredible journey through uncharted territory.
Llewellyn, et al		The Canadian Oral History Reader
		An indispensable collection of state-of-the-art work in oral history by Canadian scholars
Mann		A Dream of Nation, Second Edition
		A synthesis of Quebec history from New France to the first referendum on sovereignty in 1980.
Mills		The Empire Within
		A compelling study of the global dimensions and local particularities of political activism in Sixties Montreal.
Molloy, et al		Running on Empty
		A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.
Stranger-Ross/Sugiman		Witness to Loss
		A Japanese Canadian participated in the government’s destruction of his own community. How should he be remembered?
Thompson/Randall		Canada and the United States, Fourth Edition
		An "impartial and authoritative" survey of Canadian-American relations - now in a new, completely updated edition.
Weinfeld		Like Everyone Else but Different, Second Edition
		A timely analysis of the possibilities and challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the iconic case of Canada's Jewish community.
Winks		The Blacks in Canada, Second Edition
		The definitive history of the African-Canadian experience.

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Indigenous studies
Barman		Abenaki Daring
		The life and work of an Abenaki man illuminate the troubled history of Indigenous peoples.
Beardy/Coutts		Voices from Hudson Bay, Second Edition
		A collection of stories of traditional Cree life and culture in northern Canada.
Bennett/Rowley		Uqalurait
		An authoritative and comprehensive compilation of the ancient knowledge of Inuit elders.
Bird		The Spirit Lives in the Mind
		Renowned storyteller Louis Bird shares the teachings and stories about Swampy Cree culture collected over three decades.
Courchene		Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens
		A new paradigm for the relationship of Indigenous peoples with the settler societies in Canada.
Flanagan		First Nations? Second Thoughts, Second Edition
		A bold and penetrating look at the ideology that has dominated Canadian Aboriginal policy.
Flanagan, et al		Beyond the Indian Act
		Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?
Flannery		Ellen Smallboy
		The intimate story of a Cree woman's life and of the old ways of the James Bay Cree.
Hall		From Treaties to Reserves
		How divergent understandings of treaties contributed to a heritage of distrust.
Hall		The American Empire and the Fourth World
		In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
Hall		Earth into Property
		A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
Ignace/Ignace		Sewépemc People, Land, and Laws
		An exploration of Secwépemc history told through Indigenous knowledge and oral traditions.
Long		Treaty No. 9
		The complete story behind the signing of one of North America's largest land treaties.
Long/Brown		Together We Survive
		Essays exemplifying collaborative research, respectful advocacy, and a deep appreciation of continuity within changing Aboriginal identity and expression.
Moore		Trickster Chases the Tail of Education
		How Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies can turn teaching and learning upside down and inside out.
Nabigon		The Hollow Tree
		Fighting Addiction with Traditional Native Healing.
Phillips		Museum Pieces
		The politics of Canadian museums - the controversies, boycotts, and debates - and the international impact of the innovations they have stimulated.
Ray		Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History
		How research into Indigenous rights claims is influenced by, and in turn changes, Indigenous law and claims legislation.
Sioui		For an Amerindian Autohistory
		An insightful proposal for a reinterpretation of Native history.
Treaty 7 Elders, et al		The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7
		Gathering the "collective memory" of the elders to provide unique insights into a crucial historical event.
Wachowich		Saqiyuq
		A moving examination of the lives of three generations of Inuit women from Canada's Eastern High Arctic.
Walker, et al		Reclaiming Indigenous Planning
		How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming community planning practices and ideologies.

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Linguistics / Literature / Literary Studies
Batt/Zitner		Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry
		A collection of early twentieth-century vernacular poetry that foreshadows the emergence of the modern Chinese nation.
De Mille/Parks		A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder
		With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.
Fellion/Inglis		Censored
		A provocative history of literary censorship uncovers the limits of free speech in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Hertwig		Slow War
		At once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing.
Jacobi		The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill
		The first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics.
MacLennan		Each Man's Son
		The Precipice
		The Return of the Sphinx
		Two Solitudes
		Voices in Time
		The Watch that Ends the Night
Marechal		Adam Buenosayres
		The first-ever English translation of "Argentina's Ulysses."
Oman		The Epic of Qayaq
		A splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman and richly illustrated from the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art.
Pollard		Dread Talk, Revised Edition
		A penetrating work in the socio-linguistics of Rasta culture.

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Musicology
Hoefnagels/Diamond		Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada
		Contemporary Aboriginal music from powwow to hip hop, the people that make it, and the issues that shape it.
Keillor		Music in Canada
		The history of Canadian music from the First Peoples to contemporary artists, from classical to pop.

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Philosophy
Bourg		From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition
		A bold history of French intellectual life and the legacies of 1960's radicalism.
Brock/Mares		Realism and Anti-Realism
		An introduction to realism and anti-realism - a major subject in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
Cormier		War as Paradox
		The origin and continued importance of dialectical war theory in the works of Clausewitz and Hegel.
Dainton		Time and Space, Second Edition
		A fully revised and expanded edition of this essential course material for students and teachers dealing with the philosophy of time and space.
Del Noce		Crisis of Modernity
		A selection of essays on modernity and secularization by one of the most distinguished Italian thinkers of the mid-twentieth century.
Dunham, et al		Idealism
		A comprehensive portrait of the major arguments and philosophers in the Idealist tradition.
Girle		Modal Logics and Philosophy, Second Edition
		A new edition of this widely used and respected textbook.
Grant		Lament for a Nation, 40th Anniversary Edition
		The classic masterpiece of political meditation.
Jacobi		The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill
		The first extensive English translation of Jacobi's major literary and philosophical classics.
Maxwell		In Praise of Natural Philosophy
		Science and philosophy need to be put together to recreate natural philosophy in order to serve the best interests of humanity.
Miller		Philosophy of Language, Second Edition
		A comprehensive perspective on the philosophy of language.
Mulgan		Ethics for a Broken World
		Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe.
Murray		Morals and Consent
		An evolutionary defence of contractarian ethics as applied to social norms.
Restall		Logic
		A concise introduction to formal logic with elementary and advanced exercises.
Seymour		Liberal Theory of Collective Rights
		An original contribution to the politics of recognition and the theory of collective rights.
Sharp/Taylor		Feminist Philosophies of Life
		Exploring life's character, sex, and meaning, while calling attention to the most precarious among us.
Somerville		Bird on an Ethics Wire
		An exploration of the urgent need to rebalance individuals' unfettered freedom to choose, especially regarding birth and death.
Stout		Action
		A lucid and lively introduction to philosophy of action that focuses on the nature of the will, practical rationality, and moral psychology.
Underwood		Experience of Beauty
		An original answer to a question of permanent interest: the place of beauty in our lives.
Zwicky		Alkibiades' Love
		A highly original series of essays on the nature and practice of philosophy.

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Political Science / international affairs
		Canada: The State of the Federation Series
		Canada Among Nations Series
		How Ottawa Spends Series
Abelson		Do Think Tanks Matter?, Third Edition
		Assessing the evolution and influence of public policy institutes.
Abelson		Northern Lights
		An exploration of the rise of think tanks in Canada and the position they occupy in the country’s political landscape.
Aall/Crocker		Fabric of Peace in Africa
		An examination of critical social institutions and groups and the role they play in aiding or impeding the peaceful resolution of conflicts in Africa.
Aall/Crocker		Minding the Gap
		Conflicts in Africa are diverse and complex, but there have been a number of cases of successful conflict management and resolution.
Bezanson/Luxton		Social Reproduction
		How the unaccounted costs of neo-liberal policies fall on Canadian women.
Biles, et al		Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-first Century
		Looking at successful integration in Canada.
Bourgon		A New Synthesis of Public Administration
		A study of how public service has changed in this new era of interconnectedness.
Buckingham		Fighting over God
		Untangling the legal and political history of religion from the cultural fabric of Canada.
Chalk, et al		Mobilizing the Will to Intervene
		Provocative and practical counsel to make governments care about humanitarian crises.
Clement		Understanding Canada
		An innovative examination of the current economic and political forces affecting Canadian society.
Crocker, et al		Managing Conflict in a World Adrift
		Forty of the world’s leading international affairs analysts examine the relationship between political, social or economic change and the outbreak and spread of conflict.
Duckett		Where to from Here?
		The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.
Duckett/Peetoom		Canadian Medicare
		A rousing call to continue Canada's public health insurance program rather than rely on private insurance.
Flanagan		Harper's Team, Second Edition
		The four campaigns that made Stephen Harper prime minister of Canada - an insider's account.
Flanagan, et al		Beyond the Indian Act
		Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?
Graham		Canadian Public Sector Financial Management, Second Edition
		A primer on managing public funds and a sophisticated presentation of how governments actually work.
Grant		Lament for a Nation, 40th Anniversary Edition
		The classic masterpiece of political meditation.
Hall		The American Empire and the Fourth World
		In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
Hall		Earth into Property
		A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.
Inwood, et al		Intergovernmental Policy Capacity in Canada
		A comparative analysis of what prevents governments in Canada from working together on today's major policy challenges.
Molloy, et al		Running on Empty
		A powerful history of how Canada rescued 70,000 Indochinese refugees between 1975 and 1980.
Nossal, et al		Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, Fourth Edition
		An analyses of the deeply political context of how foreign policy is made in Canada.
Powell/Leiss		Mad Cows and Mother's Milk, Second Edition
		An evaluation of the crucial role of risk communication in dealing with public controversies.
Savoie		Power
		Has power moved out of institutions into the hands of powerful individuals?
Savoie		Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?
		An insightful account of the forces that shape Ottawa's expenditure budget and the relations between politicians and public servants.
Showler		Refugee Sandwich
		Thirteen stories that tell more about Canada's refugee system than any academic treatise.
Smith		The Democratic Dilemma
		An in-depth examination of the Tory Senate reform proposal and what it means for government.
Smith-Prei/Stehle		Awkward Politics
		A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.
Stevenson		Unfulfilled Union, Fifth Edition
		A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.
Suttor		Still Renovating
		A necessary look at how public, non-profit, and co-operative housing flourished and faded.
Verrelli		The Democratic Dilemma
		An overview of the Supreme Court of Canada and the changes that need to be made.
Walker, et al		Reclaiming Indigenous Planning
		How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming community planning practices and ideologies.
Watts		Comparing Federal Systems, Third Edition
		In this updated third edition Ronald Watts provides a clear analysis of the design and operation of a wide range of federations.

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Religion
Beyer/Ramji		Growing Up Canadian
		A ground-breaking, comparative study of how second-generation young adults from immigrant families relate to the religions of their backgrounds.
D'Souza		A Catholic Philosophy of Education
		Exploring a Catholic philosophy of education in the modern world.
Giussani		Is It Possible To Live This Way? Volume 1: Faith
		A compilation of Giussani's conversations with young people who have chosen the path of the consecrated life in the Church
Giussani		Is It Possible To Live This Way? Volume 2: Hope
		Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.
Giussani		Is It Possible to Live This Way? Volume 3: Charity
		Unusual yet reasonable approaches to living life as a Christian.
Giussani		At the Origin of the Christian Claim
		The first English translation of Giussani's inquiry into Christ's Incarnation.
Giussani		The Religious Sense
		A new translation of one of Giussani's seminal works.
Giussani		Why the Church?
		An examination of how the Church has defined itself through the centuries.
Izutsu		Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an
		A revelation of the guiding spirit of the Islamic moral code.
Neusner		A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, Revised Edition
		"By far the most important book for the Jewish-Christian dialogue in the last decade." Pope Benedict XVI
Reimer/Wilkinson		A Culture of Faith
		A comprehensive overview of evangelical Protestant congregations in Canada.
Thiessen		The Meaning of Sunday
		Explaining varying levels of religiosity and church attendance in Canada.

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Sociology
Armstrong/Day		Wash, Wear, and Care
		How clothing and laundry provide a window on to the structuring of care and work in nursing homes.
Clement		Understanding Canada
		An innovative examination of the current economic and political forces affecting Canadian society.
Dorais/Corriveau		Gangs and Girls
		Understanding and preventing gang-organized juvenile prostitution.
Dorais		Dead Boys Can't Dance
		A provocative, ground-breaking study of the tragic consequences of homophobia.
Dorais		Don't Tell, Second Edition
		First-hand accounts by male victims and insightful analysis and strategies for coping with sexual abuse
Dorais		Rent Boys
		From the acclaimed author of Don't Tell and Dead Boys Can't Dance. Candid interviews and personal stories highlight a provocative exploration of the lives of male street hustlers, strippers, and escorts.
Dunk		It's a Working Man's Town, Second Edition
		An examination of the ordinary weekend pursuits of working-class males in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Halseth, et al		Doing Community-Based Research
		Guidance on the community-researcher relationship, to support further scholarship and positive community change.
Holman		Canada's Game
		Hockey's ability to tell stories about Canada that reflect the country's uniqueness - its strengths and weaknesses.
Jedwab		The Multiculturalism Question
		A detailed analysis of the meaning of multiculturalism in Canada.
Nayar		The Punjabis in British Columbia
		Contrasting immigrant experiences in remote regions and metropolitan centres of Canada.
Polzer/Power		Neoliberal Governance and Health
		A critical dissection of the politics of health in neoliberal society.
Reimer/Wilkinson		A Culture of Faith
		A comprehensive overview of evangelical Protestant congregations in Canada.
Smith-Prei/Stehle		Awkward Politics
		A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.
Thiessen		The Meaning of Sunday
		Explaining varying levels of religiosity and church attendance in Canada.
Wilson-Forsberg		Getting Used to the Quiet
		How citizens in small town New Brunswick mobilize community resources to encourage improved integration of young immigrants.
Woo		Getting a Life
		What the "triumph of the nerds" can tell us about the place of media in people's lives.

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