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Machiavelli's Critique of Xenophon and the Moral Foundation of Politics
Lexington Books
What is Machiavelli's place in the history of political thought? Did he seek to revive the civic virtues espoused by ancient Greek and Roman political theorists, or was he an intellectual rebel whose radical critique of the classical philosophic tradition …
Lexington Books
As of 2007, more than 9.25 million people were imprisoned worldwide. Almost half of the persons imprisoned are in the United States, China and Russia. The United States has more persons in prison per capita than any country in the …
View book details for The Global Status of Women and Girls
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Lexington Books
The Global Status of Women and Girls: A Multidisciplinary Approach fosters inquiries into the complex and multifocal issues faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and today. It not only asks key questions related to public policy, …
View book details for Va'era-Bo (Hebrew)
Teacher's Guide
MaTok
The student workbooks are available in print and the teacher guides as downloadable PDFs, in Hebrew and English.
View book details for Animals and Teens
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Scarecrow Press
Teens live in an imperfect world where people judge each other on looks, popularity, bank accounts, or clothing styles-a world where people are not always treated fairly. But animals do not care about poor test scores or bad skin; they …
TwoDot
It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition features fascinating events from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's 1803-1805 expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back, including the first democratic vote west of the Mississippi, the remarkable and …
Pineapple Press
A collection of stories of people and events in the Florida Keys extending from the time the Keys were first occupied by humans, through the Second Seminole War, the coming of the Overseas Railway, and finally the opening of the …
Stone Bridge Press
A timeless classic of Japanese children's literature: One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way. This tender fable is a book of great wisdom and adventure, offering insight …
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A History of Canadian Press
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For almost a century, Canadian newspapers, radio and television stations, and now internet news sites have depended on the Canadian Press news agency for most of their Canadian (and, through its international alliances) foreign news. This book provides the first-ever …
View book details for Youth and Subculture as Creative Force
Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Radical youth work is gaining popularity as a means of teaching adults how, in collaboration with youth, they can challenge dominant ways of knowing. This study uses two particular subcultures, skinheads and punks, to explore how constructions of subcultures in …
View book details for Stalinist City Planning
Professionals, Performance, and Power
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. …
View book details for Measuring the Mosaic
An Intellectual Biography of John Porter
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), preeminent Canadian sociologist of his time, and one of Canada's most celebrated scholars. In the first biography of this important figure, Rick …
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Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the Drama of Authentic Human Existence
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The language of self-fulfilment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, authenticity) has become common in contemporary culture. The desire to be authentic is implicitly a desire to shape ones self in accordance with an ideal, and the concern for what it …
View book details for Remembrance of Patients Past
Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH) from 1870-1940. …
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A New Presentation of Coleridge from His Published and Unpublished Prose Writings (Revised Edition)
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
When this work was first prepared for publication in 1949 the Notebooks and Collected Letters were still in manuscript, and many of the printed works, if not unavailable, were scarce. The continuing publication of Coleridge's works has not lessened the …
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Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Since the 1970s, Louis Bird, a distinguished Aboriginal storyteller and historian, has been recording the stories and memories of Omushkego (Swampy Cree) communities along western Hudson and James Bays. In nine chapters, he presents some of the most vivid legends …
View book details for Caring for Lesbian and Gay People
A Clinical Guide
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What should you say if your patient is struggling with her sexuality? How do you respond to your married patient when he discloses to you his same-sex sexual history? To which medical studies do you turn when you need to …
View book details for Strengths-Based Child Protection
Firm, Fair, and Friendly
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability of training resources to help students and practitioners, until now. Strengths-Based Child Protection …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The growth of what some academics refer to as 'the policy analysis movement' represents an effort to reform certain aspects of government behaviour. The policy analysis movement is the result of efforts made by actors inside and outside formal political …
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Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni's erudite analysis sheds light on Dante's use of music in the Divine Comedy. Following the work's musical evolution, Ciabattoni moves from the cacophony of Inferno through the monophony of Purgatory, to the polyphony …
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A Scholarly Governor
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
A century ago, in 1854, Sir Edmund Head became governor general of Canada. His earlier career as Oxford don, chief Poor Law commissioner during the "hungry forties," and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, had prepared him to succeed Lord Elgin in …
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Essays for George Grant
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What is it to be modern? How does the world look through the eyes of a modern? Is it possible to bring the sensibility of the non-modern to bear on the world around one? If so, how?The essays in this …
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Essays in Honour of Frederic H. Soward
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Empire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward teacher, scholar, and administrator who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career he has made …
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Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia. Continuing the ongoing critique of ethics review begun in Will C. van den Hoonaards Walking the …
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