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View book details for Clio in the Clinic
History in Medical Practice
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Sometimes, history can solve a medical mystery; at other times, it can point to the right treatment or console a despairing doctor by demonstrating a timeless connection to unchanging aspects of human existence. In Clio in the Clinic, twenty-three doctors, …
View book details for Refocusing Crime Prevention
Collective Action and the Quest for Community
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Despite widespread concern over crime, public participation in local crime prevention programs is generally low and limited to a small, homogeneous group of middle-class home-owing residents. Conspicuously absent from these programs are the very people who are the most vulnerable …
View book details for Companions of the Peace
Diaries and Letters of Monica Storrs, 1931-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In 1929 a cultured English gentlewoman arrived in the barely settled wilderness of northern British Columbia as an Anglican missionary, intending to assuage her sense of duty by staying for one year. She stayed for twenty-one. The years covered by …
View book details for Into the Past
The Cinema of Guy Maddin
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Guy Maddin started making films in his back yard and on his kitchen table. Now his unique work, which relies heavily on such archaic means as black and white small-format cinematography and silent-film storytelling, premieres at major film festivals around …
View book details for Compassionate Canadians
Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Do Canadians, as a group, possess a strong ethical code when thinking about human rights issues? They do, according to Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann who has analyzed the responses of 78 civic leaders from Hamilton, Ontario whom she interviewed over several …
View book details for Conscience and Its Critics
Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern Subjectivity
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that …
View book details for Oedipus against Freud
Myth and the End(s) of Humanism in 20th Century British Lit
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Sigmund Freud's interpretation of the Oedipus myth - that subconsciously, every man wants to kill his father in order to obtain his mother's undivided attention - is widely known. Arguing that the pervasiveness of Freud's ideas has unduly influenced scholars …
View book details for Conversing with God
Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writing
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Conversing with God Hilmar M. Pabel examines Erasmus' understanding of prayer and how he taught western Christendom to pray in the Reformation era of the sixteenth century. To this end, Pabel adopts Erasmus' own rhetorical analysis of prayer, understood …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Disease and death are a part of life, but so too is being well. The lively voices found in this book are not shy about stating the ways in which the widely held notion that they are in decline has …
View book details for Corresponding Influence
Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Emily Carr (18711945) is an iconic figure in Canadian culture, known internationally for her painting and her writing, which depicted the extraordinary British Columbia mountain landscape along with its indigenous inhabitants and their cultural iconography. Carrs writing career came later …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Now in its fifth edition, this textbook is the standard authority on the government and politics of Ontario. Ideal for undergraduate students, it provides general background information, discusses government institutions, and covers key issues on the political scene such as …
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The Royal Insignia of Ngoyo
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
One day, more than twenty years ago, Zdenka Volavka found a lost treasure: the investiture regalia of the African kingdom of Ngoyo, dating from the Iron Age of the second millennium. The plaited copper crown or mpu, turned upside-down and …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This is a new, critical edition of William Roye's A Brefe Dialoge bitwene a Christen Father and his stobborne Sonne, which was, in 1527, the first Protestant catechism to be published in English, and which represented the first to provide …
View book details for Deadbeat Dads
Subjectivity and Social Construction
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The "deadbeat dad" is a common figure in today's news media. As an experienced social worker, family therapist and mediator, Deena Mandell is intimate with legal and institutional discourses on the topic, but also with the lived reality of those …
View book details for Denaturalizing Ecological Politics
Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The possibility of bringing the insights of modern political theory to bear on the problems of human ecology has long been plagued by disagreements over the category of nature itself. But with Denaturalizing Ecological Politics, Andrew Biro has found a …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The emblem, occupying a territory bordering literature and fine arts, was long unclaimed by scholars. But recently emblems have become the subject of resurgent interest as a key element in semiotics, communications theory, and the sociology of production and reception. …
View book details for Ernest Lapointe
Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This is a long-overdue study of one of Canada's most important political relationships. Highly readable and engaging, this work details the relationship between Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe and Prime Minister Mackenzie King, showing how the close association of the two …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
While Lonergan's work has been developed and applied to a range of cultures and ideas, few scholars have addressed the question of whether it is subject to feminist critique. And few feminists have employed the transcendental method of Lonergan to …
View book details for Sit Down and Drink Your Beer
Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlours, where beer was served in glasses and only to seated patrons. No entertainment was allowed, not even …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
It is usually assumed that the decline of the Liberal party on the Canadian prairies began in 1957, following the electoral triumph of the 'beloved prairie son,' John Diefenbaker, and the Progressive Conservatives. According to Robert Wardhaugh, however, the disintegration …
View book details for Luigi Pirandello
Contemporary Perspectives
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The texts of Luigi Pirandello, one of the literary giants of this century, have been subject to widely different readings by successive generations of critics. These essays present an up-to-date re-evaluation of Pirandello's works, which include poetry, novels, short stories, …
View book details for Sociology and the Sacred
An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The acclaimed American sociologist and cultural philosopher Philip Rieff gained great academic prestige with his thesis on the emergence of Psychological Man in western culture and with his classic book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, published in 1959. In …
View book details for Man On His Own
Interpretations of Erasmus, c1750-1920
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During his lifetime Erasmus was one of the most controversial figures of Renaissance and Reformation Europe. In the 450 years since his death his reputation has undergone a series of fluctuations that reflect the attitudes of successive periods in European, …
View book details for Spying 101
The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917-1997
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First …
View book details for Inside the Sports Pages
Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Inside the Sports Pages explores the working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes and media-relations people who inhabit it.In this first comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideologies involved in the …
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