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View book details for Dante and Augustine
Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer. The questions he posed were both simple and wide-ranging: How does language, in particular 'poetic language,' work? Can poetry be translated? What is …
José Rodrigo Saltó Sáenz
Os deuses abandonaram os homens, a imortalidade caiu sobre eles e durante seculos tiveram que viver com a sombra dos demonios que espreitam entre as florestas do oeste. Tudo e paz e harmonia no reino imponente de Andromeca, a cidade …
View book details for Thinking Government
Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources management, …
View book details for Prolegomena to the Adages
Adagiorum Collectanea, Indexes to Erasmus Adages
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
After spending several months in England, Erasmus returned to Paris in the winter of 1500 and set about compiling a small anthology of classical proverbs known as the Adagiorum collectanea. This modest work became the basis for one of Erasmus …
View book details for Collection
Volume 4
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Collection contains short works that span Lonergan's work from 1943 to 1965. The papers deal with scientific, mathematical, theological, and philosophical questions, including discussions of such topics as the proper foundation of metaphysics, the form of inference, the nature of …
View book details for Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant womanand her counterpart, the feminized …
View book details for The God Within
Kant, Schelling, and Historicity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For nineteenth-century thinkers, the central problem of religious consciousness in the modern West was the tension between prevailing concepts of individual autonomy and the traditional Judaeo-Christian claim for divine revelation. The God Within brings together ten of Professor Emil Fackenheim's …
View book details for Italian Modernism
Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of …
View book details for Steering from the Centre
Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The tumultuous climate of early modern England had a profound effect on its Catholic population's domestic life, social customs, literary inventions, and political arguments. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism explores the broad spectrum of the early modern …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Early Latin Theology presents seven of Bernard Lonergan's most important early theological works in English translation and the original Latin on facing pages under one cover for the first time. First composed as supplements to the texts he used in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern …
View book details for Modernism in Kyiv
Jubilant Experimentation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre …
View book details for Home in the City
Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Metis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living …
View book details for Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents …
View book details for Climate Change Policy in North America
Designing Integration in a Regional System
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
While no supranational institutions exist to govern climate change in North America, a system of cooperation among a diverse range of actors and institutions is currently emerging. Given the range of interests that influence climate policy across political boundaries, can …
View book details for The Labyrinth of Technology
A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Consistently ranked as one of the best Canadian movies of all time, punk-rock mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996) documents the last-ditch reunion tour of an aging rock band led by vocalist Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon). Well received by critics at …
In 1487, Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies …
So Many Rooms, the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.
Indiana University Press
Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Goldfaden (ne Goldenfaden, 1840-1908) was one of the first …
View book details for Flickering Lamps
Christ and His Church
Blackaby Ministries International
The majority of churches in North America today are either plateaued or in decline. Christian values are under siege. But what would happen if Christ came and knocked on the door of your church? Would there be renewed hope? Join …
Emereo Publishing
Does your certification body record the justification for accepting the time intervals? The relationship among the activities related to the certification? Would you apply these policies across all of the systems or only in areas of greatest risk? Does your …
View book details for How the English Language Controls the World
Part One: Social Control Through Social Order/Part Two: Angular
AuthorHouse
"CAN ONE BOOK CHANGE THE WORLD? The answer is a resounding 'Yes!' In his first book, Jack Tafoya unveiled How NUMBERS CONTROL OUR LIVES. This book goes a step further to challenge the two all-time best sellers in a way …
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