Humanities & Social Sciences

Action and Analysis: Readings in Sociology of Gender challenges readers to explore gender from varied perspectives within a sociological context. ...

How far have we come in 100 years of juvenile justice? Have we changed our thinking about youth crime and our responses to it? To address these br...

Criminal Justice in Canada, A Reader is celebrating its 20th Anniversary! The new 6th edition Reader is a collection of primarily introductory leve...

Ways of Knowing is unique in that it emerges from the author’s deep engagement with the questions his students asked over the years as he taught th...

Written for Canadians, by Canadians, Our Society provides students with an up-to-date analysis of the major diversities that characterize Canadian ...

Checkmate: A Writing Reference for Canadians guides students through the writing process of composition, from brainstorming to final revision. This...

Read, Think, Write: Strategies for Essay Writing is a fresh and authoritative book created for the essay-level composition course. Lifting the curt...

World Religions: Canadian Perspectives--Eastern Traditions provides students with a solid introduction to the study of world religions and highligh...

Ohreen’s An Introduction to Philosophy is a one-semester anthology intended to bring the relevance of philosophical issues to light for students in...

A brief handbook written with applied science and technology students in mind, The Thomson Nelson Guide to Report Writing is an ideal companion in ...

Crosscurrents: International Relations is a text that can turn a classroom into a forum for debate and discussion. With its lively and effective Ye...

The third book in the Focus On . . . series, this text teaches the essentials of composition, revision, and proofreading. It builds one lesson upon...

Braving the New World, fourth edition features a selection of readings that provide a stimulating discussion of topics most often covered in the in...

In Viewpoints we present a collection of articles suitable for introductory Canadian history tutorials. Based on Readings in Canadian History: Pre-...

This casebook was conceived as a vehicle for introducing students to a select number of judicial decisions that have played a substantial role in s...

The editor’s choice Post-Confederation volume of Visions brings together 12 pre-selected modules that tackle topics within Canadian history. This ...

Fiction/Non-Fiction: A Reader and Rhetoric acquaints students with the basic principles of good writing and is organized in three parts: Part One d...

Health, Illness and Health Care in Canada, 4/e features contributors from all over the country, addressing the widest possible range of perspective...

Written by Gary Parkinson and Robert Drislane, the Nelson Criminology Dictionary is a compact and inexpensive glossary of common criminological ter...

Bonne route!, a longtime favourite of students and instructors, is now in a new, updated, andrefreshed edition.The only four-colour Canadian text f...

Crosscurrents: International Development, first edition expands Thomson Nelson's already broad and successful Crosscurrents series. This text provi...

Drawing on the successful Checkmate series at Nelson, The Checkmate Guide to Research and Documentation is a brief handbook covering the basics of ...

Open Country: Canadian Literature in English: Canadian Short Fiction is a contemporary showcase of the country’s writing. The collection includes e...