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View book details for Topics in Education
The Cincinnati Lectures of 1959 on the Philosophy of Education
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Bernard Lonergan devoted much of his life's work to developing a generalized method of inquiry, an integrated view which would overcome the fragmentation of knowledge in our time. In Topics in Education Lonergan adapts that concern to the practical needs …
View book details for A World of Relationships
Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and …
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 …
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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 A.M. Klein: Complete Poems
Part I: Original poems 1926-1934; Part II: Original Poems 1937-1955 and Poetry Translations (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of …
View book details for A Heritage of Light
Lamps and Lighting in the Early Canadian Home
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The nineteenth century opened in the flicker of tallow candles and closed in the glare of Edison's electric lamp. Between those two events inventors and manufacturers developed a wonderful assortment of progressively more efficient lighting devices, burning a variety of …
View book details for A Science on the Scales
The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In A Science on the Scales, Jennifer M. Hubbard tells the story of how a new and emerging science - marine and fisheries biology - became an important enterprise in Canada. She uses extensive archival research - focussed on scientific …
View book details for After Poststructuralism
Writing the Intellectual History of Theory
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Every history of theory is simultaneously a theory of history. Rajan and O'Driscoll's wide-ranging volume tackles the issue of providing an intellectual history of theory, given a considerable continuity between theory and the history of ideas, and also given theory's …
View book details for Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power
Critical Perspectives from around the World
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The global expansion in judicial power has led to a growing interest in the way judges are chosen. Reform of the judicial selection process is on the political agenda in many countries but the nature of that process differs according …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Alfred Valdmanis is best known in Canada for his infamous role in Premier Joey Smallwood's scheme to industrialize Newfoundland. A Latvian immigrant, he was appointed Director General of Economic Development in 1950 with the understanding that through his connections to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, wrote Erasmus in his Introduction to the Adages, but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and the understanding of the best authors... This volume contains the …
View book details for George Grant
A Guide to His Thought
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
George Grant (1918-1988) is widely regarded as one of Canada's most influential philosophers and political theorists. His best-known work, Lament for a Nation (1965), presented a radical reinterpretation of Canadian history and inspired a surge of nationalist sentiment across the …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Medieval Icelandic authors wrote a great deal on the subject of England and the English. This new work by Magnus Fjalldal is the first to provide an overview of what Icelandic medieval texts have to say about Anglo-Saxon England in …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In this collaborative work seventeen international scholars use contemporary methodologies to address the ways in which we understand Gothic church buildings today. Artistic Integration in Gothic Buildings discusses major monuments that have traditionally stood at the core of medieval art-historical …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Life Among the Yanomami builds on literature and the author's personal experience of the northern Brazil people, the Mucajai Yanomami, with whom he lived from 1958 to 1967 and whom he has since frequently visited. The result is a rich …
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Ultrasound and the Politics of Fetal Subjects
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Appearing through developments in medicine, in volatile debates over abortion rights, in popular guides to pregnancy, and in advertisements for cars and long-distance telephone plans, the fetus has become an increasingly familiar part of our social landscape in Canada. Lisa …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles …
View book details for Chaucer's Knight's Tale
An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1985
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale attracts special attention, particularly in relation to the overall structure of the work and to the other tales. It has been the subject of a vast body of comment by …
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Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1921, despite the passing of legislation intended to ease the consequences of illegitimacy for children (Children of Unmarried Parents Act), reformers in Ontario made no effort to improve the status of unwed mothers. Furthermore, the reforms that were passed …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russias troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not …
View book details for Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons
Court and Career in the Writings of Rudolf Agricola Junior, Valentin Eck, and Leonard Cox
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Every epoch has its artists, thinkers, and creators, and behind many of these people, there is a patron waiting in the wings. Patronage and Humanist Literature in the Age of the Jagiellons looks at the relationship between humanist scholars and …
View book details for Cinema and Semiotic
Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
'Meaning' in cinema is very complex, and the flood of theories that define it have, in certain ways, left cinematic meaning meaningless. Johannes Ehrat's analysis of meaning in cinema has convinced him that what is needed is greater philosophical reflection …
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