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Accessible and thoroughly engaging, Research Methods in Kinesiology offers students comprehensive coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research design from a distinctly kinesiological perspective. Written by a team of leading experts in the field and packed with numerous examples throughout of Canadian studies in sport, exercise, health, and physical education, this text gives readers the unique opportunity to learn the process as seen through the eyes of kinesiology researchers in Canada.

Urbanization in a Global Context is a contributed text that helps Canadian students understand the process of urbanization by examining cities outside Canada across the global North and South.

The most engaging, accessible, and rich overview of the ancient Greeks' institutions, structures, activities, and cultural outputs from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period.

A core text for introduction to Canadian history courses offered out of history departments nation-wide.

Diversity, Crime, and Justice in Canada 3e is a contributed text edited by hate-crime specialist Barbara Perry, bringing together the country's leading scholars to address issues of inequality as they intersect with crime and social justice.

A fresh and engaging collection of readings about the sociology of gender in Canadian society and around the world.

The most accessible and intersectional exploration of the role of work in Canadian society.

The Empowered Writer gives students a detailed yet widely applicable and accessible guide for developing skills in writing and research, including personal and business communication.

Clear, comprehensive, and research-based, this is the leading Canadian introduction to mental health practice in social work.

The Regional Geography of Canada introduces students to the remarkable diversity - cultural, economic, historical, and geomorphic - of Canada's six regions.

A carefully curated collection of primary and secondary source documents that exposes students to a broad range of historical documents and introduces them to the approaches and methodologies historians use to interpret the past.

The most comprehensive introduction to international development, with chapters by leading experts who explore the field's most pressing issues and debates.

Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, fifth edition is a comprehensive, practical guide to understanding and conducting qualitative research in human geography. Using a unique "how-to" approach thao focuses on the practical application of research in human geography. By providing real-world examples of research methods at work in case studies, this edition teaches students how to plan, execute, interpret, and effectively communicate qualitativeresearch.

Of Kith and Kin traces the changing forms and meanings of family in the territory that now comprises Canada, from the first contacts between Indigenous peoples and French explorers, traders, missionaries, and settlers in northeastern North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present.

Your current and practical guide to the ethical reasoning process in business.

Introduction to Environmental Assessment, fourth edition, provides a practical, easy-to-follow guide to the principles, procedures, tools, and methodologies at the heart of environmental assessment. Current, practical, and accessible: the best Canadian text on environmental assessment.

Making Sense in Engineering and the Physical Sciences provides engineering and physical science students detailed information on writing summaries, lab reports, and proposals; conducting research and using academic sources; doing oral presentations; and more. This revised edition includes more information on including graphics in notes, formal writing, and presentations, as well as updated content on writing for an audience, creating strong oralpresentations, and preparing for tests, exams, and life after post-secondary education.

First published in 1959, Herbert Jackson's Introduction to Electric Circuits is a core text for introductory circuit analysis courses taught in electronics and electrical engineering technology programs. This lab manual, created to accompany the main text, contains a collection of experiments chosen to cover the main topics taught in foundational courses in electrical engineering programs.

The New Structural Social Work is an up-to-date and thorough investigation of progressive social work theory that demonstrates the shortcomings of welfare capitalism and how students can incorporate a radical alternative to conventional social work into their practice.

Bringing together an internationally respected team of experts, the second edition of Fundamentals of Health Psychology continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the key topics and approaches in the fast-growing field of health psychology.

Originally published in 1973, A Concise History of Canadian Painting has become the definitive volume on Canadian art. Now in its third edition, it remains an invaluable narrative history of Canadian painting from the late seventeenth century to the present.

"This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus Macmillan."

First published in 1969, this text is widely accepted as a useful tool for those concerned with children's books. It contains a collection of essays on history and criticism, standards, changing tastes, writers and writing, and the child's response to books.

These 33 readings make up a sound base for the study of population and society. The two basic perspectives, Malthusian and Marxist, are well-articulated, with selections ranging from the classic, to contemporary and controversial.

Political Ideologies provides a concise overview of the political theories and theorists that have shaped the modern world, dissecting the major political ideologies of our age, and uncovering the rich layers of both their historical roots and their contemporary expressions.

Writing by Choice is a comprehensive, widely applicable approach to developing writing skills for the academic, business, and personal realms.

This text grew out of an Ottawa conference in the fall of 1997. The essayists are all former PhD students of Professor Cook's, and their work reflects the range of Cook's scholarly interest as well as the transformation of the historical profession in Canada.

The emergence of a global information society is overwhelming established methods of organizing and governing. This text argues that the ability of a society to prosper in a world of rapid change will depend on its ability to develop learning-based governance systems.

This text illustrates how the contemporary Canadian women's movement, through its pragmatic pursuit of overlapping routes to political representation, has reshaped the ideas and practices of representation. It traces constitutional activism from the early 1980s to future constitutional options.

This volume is an invitation to reshape ways of carrying out research for social action in order that power is both critically analyzed and responsibly used at all stages of the research. It includes examples of the research methods used by the author in various feminist research situations.