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View book details for The Importance of Insight
Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Written in honour of Michael Vertin the distinguished philosopher and Lonergan scholar at the University of Toronot, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars. These essays investigate the importance of Lonergan's articulation …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In medieval culture, the consideration of language is deeply connected to other aspects of the system of knowledge. One interesting connection takes place between theories of language and theories of larger concepts such as love and desire. The Syntax of …
View book details for Dilemmas of Solidarity
Rethinking Distribution in the Canadian Federation
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to …
View book details for Doing Time on the Outside
Deconstructing the Benevolent Community
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Criminalized women are the focus of great interest in contemporary sociological research all over the world, however much of the growing body of work in this area has focused on the prison. Considerably less attention has been paid to women …
View book details for Downsizing in Academic Libraries
The Canadian Experience
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The 1990s provided many challenges for Canadian academic library managers. Financial cutbacks at the federal and provincial levels quickly trickled down to universities and their libraries, and administrators were forced to learn how to manage with shrinking budgets.Ethel Auster and …
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Divine Law, Morality, and Violence in Milton's Samson Agonistes
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Despite considerable general disagreement about the meaning of Milton's Samson Agonistes, literary critics have largely come to view, Samson, as a saintly Christian hero, with attending themes of election, conversion and regeneration. In a challenge to this dominant interpretation, Derek …
View book details for Due Process and Victims' Rights
The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Due Process and Victims' Rights Kent Roach critically examines dramatic changes in criminal justice in the last two decades. He argues that increasing concern by courts about the rights of those accused of crime and by legislatures about the …
View book details for E.J. Pratt
Complete Poems
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, providing the background necessary for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their …
View book details for Fashion
A Canadian Perspective
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile,' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of the top …
View book details for Fighting Firewater Fictions
Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Fighting Firewater Fictions, Richard W. Thatcher describes and explains the emergence and perpetuation of the 'firewater complex' the cultural construct of an informally sanctioned, destructive, binge-drinking norm in First Nations reserve communities.The complex has reified alcoholism as an inevitability …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Access to successful basic adult education is a concern in many countries the world over. In this innovative study, sixteen researchers from ten different countries of the Western and Arab worlds look at adult education, and discuss how an ecological …
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Being Italian in Toronto
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Shouts of 'Forza Italia!' rang out along St Clair Avenue West each time Italy won a game in World Cup 1994. But is a soccer tournament all that almost a half-million Italians in Toronto have in common? What does it …
View book details for Fools of Time
Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines …
Cuento de Luz
Seeking a new home where to feel safe, fireflies embark on a difficult journey and will learn that there is always a light at the end of the way. In the blink of an eye, the fireflies are forced to …
View book details for Gender Mainstreaming in KALAHICIDSS National Community-Driven Development Program
An Assessment
Asian Development Bank
This publication examines the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan---Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services National Community-Driven Development Program, which promotes women's participation and empowerment in the Philippines. The challenges and constraints observed in the program serve as lessons to enhance …
View book details for European Mobility in Times of Crisis
The New Context of European South-North Migration
transcript-Verlag
The global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home.This volume compiles recent research results on European south-north migration, …
View book details for New York Hotel Experience
Cultural and Societal Impacts of an American Invention
transcript-Verlag
For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history. The modern hotel is even an American invention. In five case studies of iconic New York hotels, this book presents the hotel experience of the …
AuthorHouse
Binded whithin this book are nine short stories involving love, hatred, animalistic post modern thought warfare and many random heroes that play an intricate part of us all. From invented fictious creatures to emotional battles faught in the cells of …
View book details for The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Sri Lanka
Country Diagnostics Assessment
Asian Development Bank
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Sri Lanka, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related …
View book details for Follow the Leader
A Journey to Self Realization
Balboa Press AU
*Follow The Leader: A Journey to Self Realization is a body, mind and soul book with a difference. It is designed to guide readers towards their highest potential through stories. * This fascinating book includes stories of personal experiences of …
AuthorHouse
Wild country, land hungry pioneers, angry native Indians, a vicious attack in the dark of night, stolen gold, a secret hiding place, the mysterious death of a treasure hunter -- they're all in the legend of the secret cave on …
AuthorHouse
A group of semi-retired executives become bored with their country club life and decide to partcipate in an annual nationally known 450 mile bike ride across Iowa (RAGBRAI). In the process they uncover a serial killer who selects victims from …
Emereo Publishing
Are you measuring, monitoring and predicting Portfolio Managers activities to optimize operations and profitability, and enhancing outcomes? Will Portfolio Managers have an impact on current business continuity, disaster recovery processes and/or infrastructure? What may be the consequences for the performance …
Emereo Publishing
How do the Video search engine results compare with the performance of your competitors and other organizations with similar offerings? Schedule Development, Feasibility Analysis, Video search engine Management, Project Closings, Technique: Using the Critical Path Method What are the revised …
AuthorHouse
Isabella does not know what it mean to share. Mother teaches her to share with friends and to those who cannot help themselves. She learns what it takes to share with others and how much fun it can be.
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