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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 …
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Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read AwardShortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2018Prima Magazine Best Books of the YearThe Reading Agency Top Debuts of 2018An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how its often …
Legend Times Group
'The perfect concise guide to creating your own company from scratch: brilliant' Graham RichardsThe Seven Stages to Launch You to SuccessThere is much to consider when starting a business. Knowing what to do first, whether you have a concept that …
Legend Times Group
'Kim Fu skillfully measures how long and loudly one formative moment can reverberate' Celeste NgA group of young girls descend on a sleepaway camp where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and songs by the fire. Filled …
View book details for The Capacity To Judge
Public Opinion and Deliberative Democracy in Upper Canada,1791-1854
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
By the mid-nineteenth-century, 'public opinion' emerged as a new form of authority in Upper Canada. Contemporaries came to believe that the best answer to common questions arose from deliberation among private individuals. Older conceptions of government, sociability and the relationship …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During the Italian Renaissance, dozens of early modern writers published collections of private correspondence, using them as vehicles for self-presentation, self-promotion, social critique, and religious dissent. Writing Gender in Women's Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance examines the letter collections …
View book details for Land and Book
Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range …
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Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The University of Torontos Faculty of Medicine is North Americas largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, …
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A Theory of Law and Democracy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice …
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Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although the theoretical importance of dance has always been recognized, dance has been relatively neglected in the philosophy of art. In this sequel to Off the Ground, in which Professor Sparshott focused on the concept of dance in general, A …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Victorian society the circulation of periodicals and newspapers is thought to have been larger and more influential than that of books. To investigate this premise, J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel commissioned eighteen bibliographic essays by some of …
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Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From physical settings such as high schools and maternity homes to the unfolding 'virtual' terrain of cyberspace, social science research projects are subject to increasingly restrictive ethics-testing. Are formal ethics research guidelines congruent with the aims and methodology of inductive …
View book details for Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970
A People Transformed
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When war broke out in 1939 Canadian Mennonites were overwhelmingly a rural people. By 1970 they had largely completed one of the greatest `migrations' in their history the transformation from a rural to an urban community. In this third and …
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