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View book details for Riding to the Rescue
The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Newton and his influence. His thought, like that of Aristotle and every other great thinker, underwent development which contemporary scholars are seeking to understand more clearly than did their …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
'Many years ago, I decided to write a book about the Rideau Canal. It is, therefore, with mixed feelings that I see that Robert Legget has beaten me to the tape. He is to be congratulated ... The definitive work …
View book details for Surrealism and Quebec Literature
History of a Cultural Revolution
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1948 the Quebec artist Paul-Emile Borduas published his famous manifesto Refus globala plea on behalf of the powers of imagination and sensibility in society and a revolt against rationalization, mechanization, and other restraining influences, including the church. Borduas and …
View book details for The American Retail Value Proposition
Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The American economy is profoundly dependent on the success of its retailers and the strength of its consumer spending. Yet, how do leading retailers create value for their customers? To a large extent this has been accomplished by streamlining operations …
View book details for Moral Education
Interdisciplinary Approaches
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance todaymoral education. The book is organized around four questions: the nature and scope of moral education, the problem of ethical …
View book details for The Bunkhouse Man
Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canadas railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader …
View book details for Being a Parent
Unchanging Values in a Changing World
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr. Karl S. Bernhardt wrote hundreds of articles and gave hundreds of talks to parents on the best way to bring up children. …
View book details for The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
Life Sentences and Their Geographies
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
With The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the Decameron (winner of the MLAs 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccios masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action. They include: …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a …
View book details for Babylon Under Western Eyes
A Study of Allusion and Myth
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years.Sifting through the many references to …
View book details for Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab …
View book details for Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies
An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, …
View book details for La Chronique de Robert de Clari
Etude de la langue et du style
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the …
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Founder of Quebec, Father of New France
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This standard general biography of Champlain, the founder of Canada, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canada Series, which is now out of print, although still in frequent use in libraries. This is the first time any of …
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The Devolution of Canadas Public Employment Service, 1995-2015
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services. In Federalism in Action, Donna E. Wood assesses how Canadas public employment service is performing after responsibility was transferred …
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Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate …
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Ontario's Educative Society, Volume V
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume. It describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
While Paul Valery's lyric poetry, as well as his dialogues, dramatic work, and critical prose, have preoccupied his critics, his prose poems have been virtually ignored and his position in the tradition of the genre has remained unacknowledged. This study …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee …
View book details for Courts and Trials
A Multidisciplinary Approach
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The judicial system occupies an important place in society, yet it has been one of the least studied of Canadian institutions. Traditionally, examination and criticism of the trial process have been left to lawyers and members of the legal profession. …
View book details for Our Man in Moscow
A Diplomat's Reflections on the Soviet Union
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
"The world is large; Russia is great; death is inevitable." Almost forty years ago Robert A.D. Ford came across this sentence in a Russian school primer. It stays with him today as an example of the Russian psyche, a psyche …
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