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I padroni di casa si erano gia approfittati di Lisa. Dal momento che il suo ragazzo era indietro con l'affitto, i proprietari le avevano proposto un accordo per evitare di sfrattarli. L'accordo era averla. Lisa ritorna, cosi, a firmare il …
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Alguma vez vos contei a historia de Muelle? Muelle era um menino com nariz de rato, olhar sonhador e cabelos de ourico. Acreditava que podia fazer qualquer coisa a que se propusesse, tao inocente que ele era. Gostaria de saltar …
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Revitalizing Community Through Action Research
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The town of Hespeler in southwestern Ontario is an old industrial community that lost its core manufacturing businesses, its municipal status, and its civic pride in the time since the end of the Korean War. In the early 1990s, Banks …
View book details for The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 1658-1801 (1526-1527)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The letters in Volume 12 cover Erasmus' correspondence for all of 1526 and roughly the first quarter of 1527. This was a difficult period for Erasmus for various reasons, including two bouts of illness serious enough to cause him to …
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Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each countrys attitudes to war and peace match the realities?In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From Latin humanists to popular writers, Italian Renaissance culture spawned a lively debate on vocational choice and the nature of profession. In The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy, George W. McClure examines the turn this debate took in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population. These lectures, undeniably the most learned of all the early commentaries, came to be known as the Expositions on …
View book details for The English Emblem Tradition
Volume 2: P.S. (Paradin), P.S. (Simeoni), Willet, Combe
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume is part of the Index Emblematicus series, a project whose aim is to collect and edit important works of emblem literature produced throughout Europe during the Renaissance.Volume 2 of the English Emblem Tradition provides extensive critical apparatus for …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines images of the last judgment from the fifteenth century to the present in the Carpathian mountain region of Ukraine, Poland, …
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Changing Federal Government - University Relations
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, Canadian universities are important spaces for the development of research and innovation in many areas. This collection is the first systematic examination of the evolving relationship between the federal government and Canadian universities as revealed …
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Louis Riel in Canadian Culture
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The nineteenth-century Metis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - figures in Canadian culture. Since his hanging for treason in 1885, the self-declared David of the New World has been …
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DNA in the Canadian Criminal Justice System
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
DNA testing and banking has become institutionalized in the Canadian criminal justice system. As accepted and widespread though the practice is, there has been little critique or debate of this practice in a broad public forum on the potential infringement …
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Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Government of Canada's proposed anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-36, contemplates dramatic changes to our law, in areas as diverse as criminal procedure, international relations, immigration, individual privacy, law enforcement, and charitable giving. In this collection, Canada's leading scholars in the …
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Cross-culturalism in Modern Poetry
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker in dialogue …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the early 1960s, Northrop Frye began keeping notebooks with the aim of creating a critical epic that he referred to as the 'Third Book', a project intended as his third major work following Fearful Symmetry and Anatomy of Criticism. …
View book details for The Jesuits II
Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Recent years have seen scholars in a wide range of disciplines re-evaluate the history of the Society of Jesus. In 1997, a group of scholars convened a major international conference to discuss the world of the Jesuits between 1540 and …
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A Study of Plato's Republic
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This new examination of the Republic begins with questions ignored by most students of this famous and much-studied dialogue. Why is Plato's most extensive portrait of philosophy pervaded with the language and imagery of war? Why is a discussion supposedly …
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Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
"The Limits of Rural Capitalism" is an important study of the social and economic development of the Municipality of Montcalm, a largely French-Canadian community in southern Manitoba. It challenges the view in prairie historiography that agriculture had commercialized before the …
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Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What personal vendetta motivated a group of men, labelling themselves a Vigilance Society, to enter the Donnelly farmhouse in southwestern Ontario on that night in February 1880 and brutally bludgeon the family to death? According to the author, this is …
View book details for Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition
The One and the Many in The Dynasts
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this original and scrupulously researched book, G. Glen Wickens offers a new reading of a work which is often ignored by critics and students of Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts. Wickens explores the monistic viewpoint of The Dynasts …
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Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920-1940
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Twentieth-century art has usually been analysed in terms of intellectual aesthetic principles. But several important artists of this century were motivated less by aesthetic ideas than by spiritual values. Ann Davis considers the work of five of the most dynamic …
View book details for The National Research Council in The Innovation Policy Era
Changing Hierarchies, Networks, and Markets
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this first in-depth examination of the governance of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in over twenty-five years, G. Bruce Doern and Richard Levesque show how the agency's history is interwoven with the evolution of Canada's economic and …
View book details for Transcendent Experiences
Phenomenology and Critique
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This book begins by drawing attention to the fact that many people acknowledge having had a transcendent experience, namely an event in which they had the impression that they were in contact with something boundless and limitless, which they could …
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Language and its Limits
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Mysterious Barricades makes the case that escaping the enthrallment of recent theory in literary criticism and the philosophy of language will be impossible so long as the meaning relationship is conceived in dyadic terms. Ann E. Berthoff examines certain …
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Conversational Contexts of Argument
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the needs of everyday argumentation. In this book Douglas Walton proposes a …
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