University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
It is doubtless inevitable that a publishing house should celebrate an important anniversary by publishing a book. It is perhaps equally inevitable that such a book should include a description of the founding and growth of the house concerned. However, it is hoped that The University as Publisher...
The University of Toronto
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and...
by Frank Parker Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1989
Canada Reads 2005 Winner!
In a David and Goliath style battle to the finish, Rockbound by Frank Parker Day triumphed over Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and was declared the 2005 Canada Reads winner. In a series of debates that aired on the CBC in February, panelist Donna Morrissey, author...
The Toronto School of Communication Theory
Interpretations, Extensions, Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2008
While never formally recognized as a school of thought in its time, the work of a number of University of Toronto scholars over several decades – most notably Harold Adams Innis and Marshall McLuhan – formulated a number of original attempts to conceptualize communication as a phenomenon, and...
Design for Learning
Reports Submitted to the Joint Committee of the Toronto Board of Education and the University of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
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 Physical Science, here present preliminary reports which...
Notes to the University of Toronto
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Two histories of the University of Toronto have been published, one in 1906 and one in 1927. Since the latter volume appeared, no comprehensive history of the University has been published. Given the size of the University and the complexity of the task, this is not entirely surprising. But, after...
Doing Good
The Life of Toronto's General Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
A history of Toronto’s general hospital offers a window on a broader history of Upper Canada and Ontario over the last two centuries. In this lively and authoritative account, J.T.H. Connor traces the hospital’s two-hundred-year evolution, as its mandate to ‘do good’ forced constant adjustment...
by J.M. Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Starting from Newman`s concept of the university as a place of liberal education, Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. He argues that liberal education, in which knowledge...
City Stages
Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Locating theatre companies – their sites and practices – in Toronto’s...
Halfway up Parnassus
A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government,...
by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded...
Detention Before Trial
A Study of Criminal Cases Tried in the Toronto Magistrates' Courts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Detention before trial has been one of the most neglected areas in the whole administration of criminal justice. In the past, attention has been focussed almost exclusively on detention after trial (i.e. sentencing), which touches the lives of significantly fewer persons than detention before trial....
Toronto, No Mean City
Third Edition, Revised
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The ‘Decameron’ Third Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Third Day. For each novella, a distinguished Boccaccio scholar offers...