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eBooks
We Have eBooks!
Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press offer digital books in both PDF and EPUB formats (where indicated). With more and more classes turning to online formats, we are here to help you choose which digital options are right for your students.
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eBook Terminology
We understand that the language around digital products is often used interchangeably (and gets confusing). To clarify what we're talking about when we talk digital, Canadian Scholars uses the following terminology to describe our digital offerings:
eBook: A digital book that can be downloaded to a personal device (like a phone or desktop computer) and is available from Canadian Scholars in two different formats: PDF or EPUB.
EPUB: Rather than referring to all eBooks, EPUB is a specific file type of eBook that allows for reflowable text and extra digital features.
PDF: A static, fixed layout digital book in a file format familiar to most.
Choosing a Digital Format
PDF or EPUB? How do you choose which format is right for your course? We price both formats the same, and both work with most mobile and desktop devices and allow for highlighting, bookmarks, and student notes. While similar, there are key differences:
PDFs are static, with text in a fixed layout that mirrors that of the print book. Page numbers will reflect the numbering in the print edition. Complex formatting (like that of cookbooks or children’s books) will appear the same as they do in the print version. The font size can’t be changed, but users can zoom into a portion of the page. They are best viewed on large-screened devices like laptops and tablets.
EPUBs are mutable, with reflowable text that adjusts to the screen size of a user’s device. Font size can be increased or decreased for ease of reading on mobile devices or e-readers. They often include more interactive features than a PDF such as live hyperlinks to web sources, footnotes, a linked table of contents, and more. EPUBs also often integrate better with accessibility software, offering a better user experience.
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How Can I Purchase Digital Formats?
The easiest way to purchase an eBook is directly from our website. When browsing our website, navigate to an individual title page of your interest. Select the digital option from the right sidebar under the header “Purchase Options”. An expanded menu will open to reveal the formats available per title. Select your preferred format (PDF or EPUB) and a red “Add to Cart” button will appear. Please note that all PDFs and EPUBs for sale through our website are delivered through the VitalSource Bookshelf platform
What is VitalSource?
All eBooks purchased through our website, both PDF and EPUB, are accessed through VitalSource Bookshelf.
Why do we use VitalSource Bookshelf? Because it gives students access to their purchased books any time, anywhere, across any laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Especially when reading PDFs, VitalSource Bookshelf allows students to utilize features that greatly improve the experience, including study tools and text-to-voice tools. Best of all it’s free to use! All you have to do is register. For more information on VitalSource Bookshelf, please click here.
We are also able to partner with your institutional bookstores to make books available to students through other digital distribution platforms. Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press titles can currently be made available on VitalSource Bookshelf, RedShelf, and Campus eBookstores.
For Instructors: How Can I Adopt eBooks for my Course?
Having students continue to purchase books for their courses through the bookstore is the most streamlined process for students, no matter if you need print or digital for your upcoming course.
If you’d like to make eBooks available to students for one of your courses, please reach out to your institutional bookstore about their preferred method for making eBooks available. They are likely affiliated with one of our distribution partners mentioned above, and if so we can easily make a PDF or EPUB version available through that partnership.
We understand for many instructors this process is new and daunting, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to your publisher’s representative to start this process, or email info@canadianscholars.ca to be connected to your representative.
For Bookstores: How Can We Sell Canadian Scholars eBooks?
We are happy to partner with institutional bookstores to make Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press EPUBs and PDFs available. Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press titles can currently be made available on VitalSource Bookshelf, RedShelf, and Campus eBookstores.
Please contact your publisher’s representative or email info@canadianscholars.ca to connect with us, and we’ll work with you and your partnered digital distribution platforms to make our titles available.
Accessing Your Digital Book
Upon purchase of an eBook from our website, customers will see a displayed receipt with a large red button that says “Access your digital content now”. This link will also be sent out in your email confirmation. Please follow these steps to access your eBook if you do not yet have a VitalSource Account:
- Click the “access your digital content now” link, either through the button on our website after purchase or from your email confirmation.
- You will be taken to VitalSource Bookshelf, where you will be prompted to register an account. If you need support in making an account please follow this guide.
- Once you have registered an account, you will be taken directly to your book, and the VitalSource Bookshelf. If you already have a VitalSource Bookshelf account, you will be taken directly to your book upon clicking the “access your digital content now” button.
For those having any issues, VitalSource has a robust user guide that can be easily referenced, or visit VitalSource’s 24-hour online technical support for assistance.
Can I View My eBook Offline?
To view your eBooks offline, please download the VitalSource Bookshelf application for your computer or mobile device. Once installed, log in with your VitalSource Bookshelf credentials to view your bookshelf.
You can be logged in to your VitalSource Bookshelf account on up to two mobile devices and two desktop computers at one time.
For frequently asked questions about viewing books offline please reference this guide.
** PDFs are available for the majority of Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press titles and can be purchased on each book’s individual page. We are working hard to make EPUBs available for most titles.
To see the EPUBs currently available please reference the list below. Contact your publisher’s representative or email info@canadianscholars.ca for assistance if you can’t find an EPUB you are looking for.
Available EPUBs
- August 2016
- 9781551309125
- $66.95 Print
- $61.95 Digital
- July 2018
- 9781773380438
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Youth in Conflict with the Law, Fourth Edition
Denise Whitehead, Mark Hunter
- August 2016
- 9781551309422
- $60.95 Print
- $55.95 Digital
Strong Helpers' Teachings, Second Edition
The Value of Indigenous Knowledges in the Helping Professions
Cyndy Baskin
- September 2016
- 9781551309361
- $92.95 Print
- $87.95 Digital
Rethinking Society in the 21st Century, Fourth Edition
Critical Readings in Sociology
Kate Bezanson, Michelle Webber
- April 2009
- 9781894549783
- $30.95 Print
- $25.95 Digital
- March 2017
- 9781551309514
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Comparative and International Education, Second Edition
Issues for Teachers
Kathy Bickmore, Ruth Hayhoe, Caroline Manion, Karen Mundy, Robyn Read
- April 2017
- 9781551309330
- $77.95 Print
- $72.95 Digital
Responding to the Oppression of Addiction, Third Edition
Canadian Social Work Perspectives
Rick Csiernik, William S. Rowe
- May 2017
- 9781551309576
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
- August 2017
- 9781551309910
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Research Literacy for Health and Community Practice
Sonya Jakubec, Barbara Astle
- August 2017
- 9781551309705
- $77.95 Print
- $72.95 Digital
- August 2018
- 9781773380278
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
- June 2014
- 9781551303741
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
- November 2015
- 9781551307381
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Community and Public Health Nursing, Second Edition
Learning to Make a Difference through Teamwork
Elizabeth Diem, Alwyn Moyer
- August 2017
- 9781551309736
- $56.95 Print
- $51.95 Digital
Challenging Stories
Canadian Literature for Social Justice in the Classroom
Anne Burke, Ingrid Johnston, Angela Ward
- August 2017
- 9781551309798
- $52.95 Print
- $47.95 Digital
Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice
Samantha Wehbi, Henry Parada
- August 2017
- 9781551309767
- $52.95 Print
- $47.95 Digital
Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Research
Henry Parada, Samantha Wehbi
- August 2017
- 9781773380124
- $62.95 Print
- $57.95 Digital
- December 2017
- 9781773380247
- $84.95 Print
- $79.95 Digital
Canadian Organized Crime
Stephen Schneider
- December 2017
- 9781773380186
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
The Sociology of Childhood and Youth in Canada
Xiaobei Chen, Rebecca Raby, Patrizia Albanese
- December 2017
- 9781773380216
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- June 2018
- 9781773380551
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Canadian Curriculum Studies
A Métissage of Inspiration/Imagination/Interconnection
Erika Hasebe-Ludt, Carl Leggo
- April 2018
- 9781773380407
- $58.95 Print
- $53.95 Digital
- December 2017
- 9781773380032
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
An Introduction to Global Health, Third Edition
Michael Seear, Obidimma Ezezika
- October 2014
- 9781551306315
- $66.95 Print
- $61.95 Digital
- August 2018
- 9781773380858
- $61.95 Print
- $56.95 Digital
Indigenous Research
Theories, Practices, and Relationships
Deborah McGregor, Jean-Paul Restoule, Rochelle Johnston
- March 2013
- 9781551305318
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Education and the Politics of Difference, Second Edition
Select Canadian Perspectives
Ratna Ghosh, Ali A. Abdi
- July 2018
- 9781773380766
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
- August 2018
- 9781773380001
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
- May 2018
- 9781773380469
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
- April 2018
- 9781773380377
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health, Second Edition
Beyond the Social
Margo Greenwood, Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay
- September 2018
- 9781773380582
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Under-Served
Health Determinants of Indigenous, Inner-City, and Migrant Populations in Canada
Akshaya Neil Arya, Thomas Piggott
- August 2018
- 9781773380735
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Ethics and Canadian Law Enforcement
Richard Parent, Catherine Parent
- May 2018
- 9781773380520
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
The Drug Paradox
An Introduction to the Sociology of Psychoactive Substances in Canada
Tara Bruno, Rick Csiernik
- May 2018
- 9781773380490
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
- September 2015
- 9781551308821
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
Research as Resistance, Second Edition
Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches
Leslie Brown, Susan Strega
- May 2016
- 9781551308975
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- November 2017
- 9781773380063
- $84.95 Print
- $79.95 Digital
Health Promotion in Canada, Fourth Edition
New Perspectives on Theory, Practice, Policy, and Research
Irving Rootman, Ann Pederson, Katherine Frohlich, Sophie Dupéré
- January 2012
- 9781551304014
- $46.95 Print
- $41.95 Digital
- March 2013
- 9781551305349
- $71.95 Print
- $66.95 Digital
Mad Matters
A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume
- December 2013
- 9781551305561
- $77.95 Print
- $72.95 Digital
- January 2013
- 9781551304175
- $56.95 Print
- $51.95 Digital
New Perspectives on African-Centred Education in Canada
George J. Sefa Dei, Arlo Kempf
- July 2018
- 9781773380889
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
- February 2018
- 9781773380155
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Race and Racialization, Second Edition
Essential Readings
Tania Das Gupta, Carl E. James, Chris Andersen, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Roger C. A. Maaka
- March 2019
- 9781773380919
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Academic Literacy in the Social Sciences
Judy Eaton, David Morris
- August 2018
- 9780889616066
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Women in the "Promised Land"
Essays in African Canadian History
Nina Reid-Maroney, Boulou Ebanda de B’béri, Wanda Thomas Bernard
- May 2019
- 9781773380612
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum
Units and Lesson Plans for Inclusive Education
George J. Sefa Dei, Mairi McDermott
- November 2018
- 9781773380674
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada
Cases from Front-Line Settings
Patricia Kostouros, Brenda Thompson
- August 2018
- 9781773380797
- $56.95 Print
- $51.95 Digital
- January 2019
- 9781773380940
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice
Critical Perspectives
Stacey Hannem, Carrie B. Sanders, Christopher J. Schneider, Aaron Doyle, Tony Christensen
- December 2018
- 9781773380971
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
The Craft of Qualitative Research
A Handbook
Steven W. Kleinknecht, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Carrie B. Sanders
- February 2019
- 9781773380827
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
A Hard Place to Call Home
A Canadian Perspective on Residential Care and Treatment for Children and Youth
Kiaras Gharabaghi
- February 2019
- 9781773381008
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
Classical Sociological Theory
Irving M. Zeitlin
- April 2019
- 9781773381039
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Child and Youth Care across Sectors, Volume 1
Canadian Perspectives
Kiaras Gharabaghi, Grant Charles
- August 2019
- 9780889616097
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
Feminist Food Studies
Intersectional Perspectives
Barbara Parker, Jennifer Brady, Elaine Power, Susan Belyea
- January 2020
- 9781773381091
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
- January 2020
- 9781773381398
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
- August 2019
- 9781773381121
- $66.95 Print
- $61.95 Digital
- August 2019
- 9781773381244
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
- September 2019
- 9781773380339
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
A Tapestry of Relational Child and Youth Care Competencies
Theresa Fraser, Mary Ventrella
- October 2019
- 9781773381510
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
- August 2019
- 9781773381459
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Police Response to Mental Health in Canada
Uzma Williams, Daniel J. Jones, John R. Reddon
- November 2019
- 9781773381480
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in Criminal Practice
A Handbook
Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Thomas Harrison
- August 2019
- 9781773381428
- $61.95 Print
- $56.95 Digital
The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture
Victoria Kannen, Neil Shyminsky
- November 2019
- 9781773381336
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
The Compassionate Educator
Understanding Social Issues and the Ethics of Care in Canadian Schools
Allyson Jule
- November 2019
- 9781773381183
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Spirituality and Social Justice
Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World
Norma Jean Profitt, Cyndy Baskin
- December 2019
- 9781773381367
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
- August 2019
- 9781773381152
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Research and Reconciliation
Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships
Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, Lindsay DuPré
- December 2019
- 9780889616127
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
The Black Girlhood Studies Collection
Aria S. Halliday
- November 2019
- 9781773381541
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
- December 2019
- 9781773381572
- $44.95 Print
- $39.95 Digital
Leadership in Education
The Power of Generative Dialogue
Pamela Adams, Carmen Mombourquette, David Townsend
- May 2019
- 9781773381060
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
Debating Health Care Ethics, Second Edition
Canadian Contexts
Patrick Findler, Doran Smolkin, Warren Bourgeois
- December 2019
- 9781773381305
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Staying Alive, Third Edition
Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care
Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael, Marcia Rioux
- August 2019
- 9781773381275
- $44.95 Print
- $39.95 Digital
Transcultural Literacies
Re-Visioning Relationships in Teaching and Learning
Karen M. Magro, Michelle A. Honeyford
- May 2019
- 9781773381213
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
- August 2019
- 9780889616004
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
- November 2019
- 9781773381602
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada, Second Edition
A Resource for Counselling Professionals
Rick Csiernik
- July 2020
- 9781773381633
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
- August 2020
- 9781773381664
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Teaching about Gender Diversity
Teacher-Tested Lesson Plans for K–12 Classrooms
Susan W. Woolley, Lee Airton
- May 2020
- 9780889616158
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Women and Popular Culture in Canada
Laine Zisman Newman
- June 2020
- 9781773381817
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada
Sheila Cote-Meek, Taima Moeke-Pickering
- May 2020
- 9781773381695
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
- April 2020
- 9781773381756
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
- April 2020
- 9781773381848
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- October 2020
- 9781773381954
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Child and Youth Care across Sectors, Volume 2
Canadian Perspectives
Kiaras Gharabaghi, Grant Charles
- July 2020
- 9781773382043
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Introduction to Mental Health for Child and Youth Care
Patti Ranahan, Stanley Kutcher, Mina Hashish
- December 2020
- 9781773381985
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Teaching Global Citizenship
A Canadian Perspective
Lloyd Kornelsen, Geraldine Balzer, Karen M. Magro
- October 2020
- 9781773382012
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Canadian Context
An Introduction
Kimberly Maich, Sharon C. Penney, Kelly Alves, Carmen Hall
- May 2020
- 9781773381725
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Canadian Communication Policy and Law
Sara Bannerman
- August 2020
- 9781773381893
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State
Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael
- August 2020
- 9781773381923
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
- August 2020
- 9781773382074
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies
Local Solutions and Global Opportunities
Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Nathan D. Martin
- December 2020
- 9781773382104
- $44.95 Print
- $39.95 Digital
Case Management from an Empowerment Perspective, Fourth Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- May 2017
- 9780889615977
- $38.95 Print
- $33.95 Digital
Ravensong - A Novel
Lee Maracle
- May 2018
- 9780889615915
- $104.95 Print
- $99.95 Digital
- April 2016
- 9780889615793
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
- February 2016
- 9780889615762
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Iskwewak Kah' Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak, Second Edition
Neither Indian Princesses nor Easy Squaws
Janice Acoose
- November 2015
- 9780889615700
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
Women's Health, Second Edition
Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice
Pat Armstrong, Ann Pederson
- February 2021
- 9781773382203
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Canadian Society in the Twenty-First Century, Fourth Edition
An Historical Sociological Approach
Trevor W. Harrison, John W. Friesen
- December 2020
- 9781773382142
- $49.95 Print
- $44.95 Digital
Agile Project Delivery
A Practical Approach for Corporate Environments Beyond Software Development
Aaron A. Blair
- January 2021
- 9781773382173
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Canadian Perspectives on Advanced Practice Nursing, Second Edition
Eric Staples, Roger Pilon, Ruth A. Hannon
- April 2021
- 9781773382296
- $87.95 Print
- $82.95 Digital
- March 2021
- 9781773382265
- $95.95 Print
- $90.95 Digital
- March 2021
- 9781773382234
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- May 2021
- 9781773382432
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
- May 2021
- 9781773382616
- $59.95 Print
- $54.95 Digital
Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care
Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, Rachel Berman
- August 2021
- 9780889616257
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Trans Youth Stories
An Intergenerational Dialogue after the "Trans Tipping Point"
Dr. Lindsay Herriot, Kate Fry
- August 2021
- 9780889616226
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
- August 2021
- 9781773382678
- $84.95 Print
- $79.95 Digital
The Politics of Dental Care in Canada
Carlos Quiñonez
- July 2021
- 9781773382401
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- August 2021
- 9781773382463
- $44.95 Print
- $39.95 Digital
- August 2021
- 9781773382494
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- July 2021
- 9781773382586
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
- June 2021
- 9781773382555
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital