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View book details for Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe
Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as model colonists to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. …
View book details for Diaminds
Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Canadian Parties in Transition examines the transformation of party politics in Canada and the possible shape the party system might take in the near future. With chapters written by an outstanding team of political scientists, the book presents a multi-faceted …
View book details for Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965
A Social History of Religion in Canada
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Religious institutions, values, and identities are fundamental to understanding the lived experiences of Canadians in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, an inter-denominational study, considers how Christian churches influenced the social and cultural development of Canadian …
View book details for Semantics and the Body
Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In traditional semantics, the human body tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, by contrast, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories which conflate formal …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the …
View book details for Globalizing Confederation
Canada and the World in 1867
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canadas Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Policy Paradigms, Transnationalism, and Domestic Politics offers a variety of perspectives on the development of policy paradigms the ideas that structure thinking about what can and should be done in a policy domain. In this collection, international experts examine how …
View book details for Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'
German and Intercultural Stagings
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted …
View book details for Encounters with a Radical Erasmus
Erasmus' Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Although Erasmus is now accepted as a harbinger of liberal trends in mainstream Christian theology, the radical - even subversive - aspects of his work have received less attention. Beginning with a redefinition of the term radicalism, Peter G. Bietenholz …
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the …
View book details for Being a Parent
Unchanging Values in a Changing World
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr. Karl S. Bernhardt wrote hundreds of articles and gave hundreds of talks to parents on the best way to bring up children. …
View book details for The Comedy of Entropy
Humour/Narrative/Reading
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized. He describes it as the narrative expression of forms of decentred humour, or what might …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Parliamentary ombudsmen are appointed to investigate citizens' complaints and to provide checks on government administrative activity. In Canada, there are ten provincial and territorial ombudsmen, each with mandates over the whole of the public service within their regions. Though each …
View book details for Fighting Words
Imperial Censorship and the Russian Press, 18041906
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Censorship took many forms in Imperial Russia. First published in 1982, Fighting Words focuses on the most common form: the governmental system that screened written works before or after publication to determine their acceptability. Charles A. Ruud shows that, despite …
View book details for Drawn to See
Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research.
View book details for Cases of Conflict
Transboundary Disputes and the Development of International Environmental Law
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Cases of Conflict focuses on times of dispute as important moments in the development of international environmental law. Conflict tests international lawboth its content and its relevance become clearer in times of controversybut conflict can also help shape the law. …
View book details for Steering from the Centre
Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Governments face new challenges in an era marked by globalization, shifting economic and national security policies, pervasive electronic media, and policy reform. Steering from the Centre details how chief executives in ten Western democracies have responded to governance challenges in …
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 Toronto, The Importance of Insight brings together a number of thoughtful essays by leading Lonergan scholars. These essays investigate the importance of Lonergan's articulation …
View book details for The Narcissistic Text
A Reading of Camus' Fiction
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for …
View book details for Social Science and Modern Man
Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures 1969
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. The author argues that the chief inspiration for this effort, insofar as it has been successful, has been the rationalist philosophy of physical science, …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Newly revised by the author (1956), this text-book for beginning students is also designed for general readers who want to know what economics is and how economists think. It analyses the size and composition of the wage-earner in modern industry, …
View book details for Seeking Equality
The Political Economy of the Common Good in the United States and Canada
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Seeking Equality compares economic inequality in the United States and Canada. The North American neighbors have much in commonsocially, politically, and economicallyyet Canadians enjoy significantly higher levels of equality and material well-being. Harles explores the values and policy decisions that …
View book details for The Grasping Imagination
The American Writings of Henry James
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with the international novels, particularly his late works.This …
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