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View book details for Edible Histories, Cultural Politics
Towards a Canadian Food History
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food …
View book details for Design for Learning
Reports Submitted to the Joint Committee of the Toronto Board of Education and the University of Toronto
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto. Three sub-committees, dealing with English, Social Science, and …
View book details for Nature, Contemplation, and the One
A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands …
View book details for Living Masks
The Achievement of Pirandello
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers …
View book details for A Glorious and Terrible Life With You
Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Northrop Frye's status as one of the most influential critics and intellectuals of the twentieth century makes it difficult to gauge the personal qualities of the man behind the work. However, an intimate picture is revealed through the correspondence Frye …
View book details for The Art of Subtraction
Digital Adaptation and the Object Image
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Art of Subtraction is the first full-length study on the CD-ROM as a creative platform. Bruno Lessard traces the rise and relatively rapid fall of the CD-ROM in the 1980s and 1990s and its impact as a creative platform …
View book details for Writing Travel
The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how …
View book details for Recovering from Genocidal Trauma
An Information and Practice Guide for Working with Holocaust Survivors
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Since the Second World War people have become aware of the trauma associated with genocide and other crimes against humanity. Today, assisting mass atrocity survivors, especially as they age, poses a serious challenge for service providers around the world.Recovering from …
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Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each countrys attitudes to war and peace match the realities?In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines …
View book details for Politics of Energy Dependency
Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Energy has been an important element in Moscows quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
As free trade talks continue uncertainly, as Ottawa and Washington toss protective tariffs at each other's goods, and as the provinces continue to disagree among themselves and with the federal government, the search for a national economic policy goes on. …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Increasing wisdom and ingenuity are required if we are to master our environment and cope with the myriad of organisms that affect our existence. Not the least of these organisms are the parasites and pathogens which can be found in …
View book details for Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation
An Annotated Bibliography, 19292008
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and …
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The Aesthetics of Possibility
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Widely heard and read throughout the middle ages, romance literature has persisted for centuries and has lately re-emerged in the form of speculative fiction, inviting readers to step out of the actual world and experience the intriguing pleasure of possibility. …
View book details for The Making of a Peacemonger
The Memoirs of George Ignatieff
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Standing on the roof of Canada House following one of the worst wartime air raids on London and surveying the devastation around them, two men resolved to devote their lives to the cause of peace. One of them was Mike …
View book details for Artistry Unleashed
A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view, achieve excellence without sacrificing creativity, and invest passion even as you apply reason and intelligence. Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge …
View book details for The Wetiko Legal Principles
Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
In Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principles, Hadley Friedland explores how the concept of a wetiko can be used to address the unspeakable happenings …
View book details for Decadence and Objectivity
Ideals for Work in the Post-consumer Society
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Haworth's concerns are urgent. Modern society, he argues, threatens to collapse under the burden of mindless growth. Its demands have begun to exhaust the world's resources. The pursuit of growth has hollowed out our social foundations. Advanced technology has emancipated …
View book details for Essays in the History of Canadian Law
In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Policing in Canada is in the process of change: similar to other nations in the western world, many of the policing services that were provided by public forces in the past are being gradually handed over to private security agencies.Complex …
View book details for The Girl and the Game
A History of Women's Sport in Canada, Second Edition
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
In the second edition of this groundbreaking social history, M. Ann Hall begins with an important new chapter on Aboriginal women and early sport and ends with a new chapter tying today's trends and issues in Canadian women's sport to …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master …
View book details for Who is an Indian?
Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
We are all familiar with the almost ritual lament about the desolation and sameness of the suburbs that surround our modern cities. Is this complaint inevitable or can something be done to lend variety, colour, and meaning to these spreading …
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
At Confederation, most French Canadians felt their homeland was Quebec; they supported the new arrangement because it separated Quebec from Ontario, creating an autonomous French-Canadian province loosely associated with the others. Unaware of other French-Canadian groups in British North America, …
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