University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Living and Working with Schizophrenia
Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
For the families of schizophrenics, fear, guilt, frustration, and despair can become part of daily life. Several years ago the authors of this volume established a program at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto to help the families of schizophrenics cope with the sometimes debilitating emotions...
by Robert Barr, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian...
by Paul Szarmach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some...
Associations and Law
The Classical and Early Christian Stages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
George Heiman has translated the discussion of classical and early Christian laws of association from the major works by Grotto Gierke, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. This work complements F.W. Maitland's translation of a later part under the title, The Political Theories of the Middle Ages, and...
Canada's Odyssey
A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation.
In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned...
The Givenness of Desire
Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural...
The Promise of Schooling
Education in Canada, 1800-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 1997
Between 1800 and 1914, Canadian society and its school systems were forged, populated, expanded and reformed. The Promise of Schooling explores the links between social and educational change in this complex and dynamic period. It raises and seeks to answer a number of questions: How extensive was...
by John P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Public education is often viewed as dominated by an emphasis on test scores and narrowly defined parameters of performance and achievement. By contrast, John P. Miller's Whole Child Education fosters relationships between various forms of thinking, links body and mind, and recognizes the inner life...
Canadian-American Planning
The Seventh Annual Conference on Canadian-American Relations, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the...
Governing Urban Economies
Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban...
In Defence of Theatre
Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question.
Kathleen Gallagher and...
Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research
Linking Pedagogy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows that CBR can also operate as an innovative pedagogical practice, engaging community members, research...
Creative Margins
Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.
Creative...
Troubled Masculinities
Reimagining Urban Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In the contemporary urban environment, the once-dominant concept of a ‘masculine’ identity is being replaced by alternative ideas of what it means to be a man. Troubled Masculinities explores and theorizes the ways in which men who experience marginalization in urban settings reimagine and reconstruct...