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View book details for William Lyon Mackenzie King, Volume II, 1924-1932
The Lonely Heights
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This second volume of the official biography of Mackenzie King (the first, written by R. MacG. Dawson, was published in 1958) covers the years 1924 to 1932. At the opening of this period, King was still an inexperienced and untried …
View book details for The Politics of Passion
Norman Bethune's Writing and Art
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The university today has to accept the responsibility of seeing that those entering business receive the training most advantageous not only to their careers but also to society itself, in which the businessman to-day plays such a significant part. But …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of …
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The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The making of a reasonably comprehensive anthology which is intended to do more than reflect the personal literary tastes of the anthologists is not an easy task, but is certainly an exciting and challenging one. It is important, of course, …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but …
View book details for Our Battle for the Human Spirit
Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Where do Canadian content requirements come from? What is the difference between an over-the-top (OTP) service provider and a broadcast distribution undertaking (BDU)? How is broadcast regulation changing in response to the rise of new media? The second edition of …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Teacher Education in a Transnational World brings together specialists from various disciplines and scholars with policy-making and high-level government and administrative experience to discuss the historical, sociological, and philosophical issues associated with teacher education in a global context.Edited by Rosa …
View book details for A Native Heritage
Images of the Indian in English-Canadian Literature
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Disparity and division in religion, technology and ideology have characterized relations between English-Canadian and Indian cultures through-out Canada's history. From the earliest declaration of white territorial ownership to the current debate on aboriginal rights, red man and white man have …
View book details for The Finance Crisis and Rescue
What Went Wrong? Why? What Lessons Can Be Learned?
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The 2008 global financial crisis affects everyone, but its root causes and potential cures knowledge necessary in order to make strong financial decisions moving forward are confusing to many. This compilation of expert views from the University of Toronto's Rotman …
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Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment. Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bob Geldof, Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are just some of …
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 Brewing Legal Times
Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Much socio-legal scholarship assumes that even if experiences of law and time differ, people and laws exist within an overarching, shared timeframe. In Brewing Legal Times, Emily Grabham boldly departs from this assumption, drawing on perspectives from actor-network theory, feminist …
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Montreal's Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
From the late nineteenth century to the Second World War, a 'young and modern' girl problem emerged in Montreal in the context of social and cultural turmoil. In Caught, Tamara Myers explores how the foundation and implementation of Quebec's juvenile …
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Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Around the world and for hundreds of years, men and women have refused to be drafted into bearing arms for their nations' wars. These conscientious objectors to the draft are the subject of Peter Brock's latest collection, Against the Draft. …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Whether its the first-past-the-post electoral system or partisan government appointees to the Senate, Canadians want better representation and accountability from the federal government. Before reforms can be enacted, however, it is important to explore and clarify the relationships among Canadas …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882) was a leading British philosopher and political figure and founder of the school of British Idealism, which displaced the philosophy of Bentham and John Stuart Mill as the dominant tradition in British universities from 1880 into …
View book details for In Defence of Science
Science, Technology, and Politics in Modern Society
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Science holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective. In a series of essays that make extensive use of original work by …
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Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested …
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Canadian Social Welfare through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884-1975
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
One of Canadas first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at …
View book details for The Carrot and the Stick
Leveraging Strategic Control for Growth
In todays world of interconnected and "always-on" information, companies that succeed are those that compete by leveraging strategic control points. A strategic control point is a part of a market that, if controlled by one party, can be used to …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun's meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild's life, and Gregory of Tours' vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are …
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History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of …
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