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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 …
View book details for The Mysterious Barricades
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 …
View book details for The New Dialectic
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 …
View book details for The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy
Translation of and Commentary on the Parmenides with Interpretative Chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From antiquity, Plato's Parmenides has been considered an enigma. In this book Robert Turnbull offers a translation and explanation of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues.Turnbull claims that in the Parmenides Plato abandoned the earlier …
View book details for The Laughter of the Saints
Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Second World War wreaked unprecedented devastation throughout Europe, necessitating monumental reconstruction efforts that burdened not only governments, but the lives of ordinary citizens. War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 examines this transitional period in the province of …
View book details for Pride in Modesty
Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created …
View book details for The Poetry of Immanence
Sacrament in Donne and Herbert
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this extensive study of two of the most celebrated seventeenth-century religious poets, Robert Whalen examines the role of sacrament in the formation of early modern religious subjectivity. For John Donne and George Herbert, sacramental topoi became powerful conceptual tools …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) was an English statesman, philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, and also one of the most controversial figures in his country's episcopate. His long life coincided with the central period of institutional, intellectual, and religious consolidation in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, …
View book details for Alliances
Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change? Alliances brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, activists, and scholars in order to examine their …
View book details for Transforming Labour
Women and Work in Postwar Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
It is a common assumption that governments use public opinion research primarily to help them make popular decisions about major policy issues but few scholars have ever looked beyond this assumption to investigate its veracity. In The Roles of Public …
View book details for The Lazier Murder
Prince Edward County, 1884
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them Joseph …
View book details for The Mystical Science of the Soul
Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's Recollection Method
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. …
View book details for Beyond the Box
B.F. Skinner's Technology of Behaviour from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is one of the most famous and influential figures in twentieth century psychology. A best-selling author, inventor, and social commentator, Skinner was both a renowned scientist and a public intellectual known for his controversial theories of human …
View book details for Children's Rights
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the …
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Why Information Is Not Enough
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living …
View book details for Encounters with a Radical Erasmus
Erasmus' Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although Erasmus is now accepted as a harbinger of liberal trends in mainstream Christian theology, the radical - even subversive - aspects of his work have received less attention. Beginning with a redefinition of the term radicalism, Peter G. Bietenholz …
View book details for Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism
Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property or finance. The …
View book details for Becoming Biosubjects
Bodies. Systems. Technology.
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Becoming Biosubjects examines the ways in which the Canadian government, media, courts, and everyday Canadians are making sense of the challenges being posed by biotechnologies. The authors argue that the human body is now being understood as something that is …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The release of Denys Arcand's Le Declin de l'empire americain (The Decline of the American Empire) in 1986 marked a major turning point in Quebec cinema. It was the first Quebecois film that enjoyed huge critical and commercial success at …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Framing Canadian Federalism assembles an impressive range of scholars to consider many important issues that relate to federalism and the history of Canada's legal, political, and social evolution. Covering themes that include the Supreme Court of Canada, changing policies towards …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law and hence equal access to the justice system this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses on the …
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