University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Systems and Computer Science
Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Western Ontario September 10-11, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science in Canadian universities....
New Horizons for Canada's Children/Horizons Nouveaux pour les Enfants du Canada
Proceedings of the first Canadian Conference on Children/Deliberations de la premiere Conference Canadienna de l'Enfance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The first Canadian Conference on Children, held in the province of Quebec in October, 1960, was the culmination of several years of planning and of three years' specific study of projects which dealt with existing programmes for children in Canada. Delegates came from provincial and national organizations...
by Georgina Binnie-Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
An established writer before she came to Canada, Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) settled in Saskatchewan in 1905 to become a farmer. It was an unlikely ambition for a woman in her day, particularly an English gentlewoman, and in the opinion of many, an impossible one. The reaction of onlookers was...
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming “philosophy of Christ.”...
by Rosalind Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell’Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy. Tracing the historical progress of actresses from their earliest appearances as sideshow attractions to revered divas, Rosalind Kerr explores...
Toward a Better World
Memoirs of a Life in International and Development Economics
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Toward a Better World describes the life, times and perspectives of Gerry Helleiner, a Canadian activist and university-based economist, who worked for roughly 40 years with developing countries and international organizations. In his memoir, Toward a Better World, Helleiner, recounts the profound...
Pleyn Delit
Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1996
This is a completely revised edition of the classic cookbook that makes genuine medieval meals available to modern cooks. Using the best recipes from the first edition as a base, Constance Hieatt and Brenda Hosington have added many new recipes from more countries to add depth and flavour to our understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate. A complicated mixture of provisions intended to provide harsher punishments for serious violent crimes while encouraging positive, non-punitive interventions in less serious...
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial
Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Bad Attitude(s) on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and 'victimizes' women has recently found expression in law in the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision of R. v. Butler (1992). Many...
Is God a Racist?
The Right Wing in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
‘God is a racist’—so goes a statement published in the literature of the Western Guard, a white-supremacist, anti-semitic group in Toronto. It is one of a number of racist organizations that have sprung up in Canada since the Second World War. Stanley Barrett points out in this disquieting study...
Babies without Borders
Adoption and Migration across the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky...
Democratic Illusion
Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
The theory of deliberative democracy promotes the creation of systems of governance in which citizens actively exchange ideas, engage in debate, and create laws that are responsive to their interests and aspirations. While deliberative processes are being adopted in an increasing number of cases,...
The Atlantic Region to Confederation
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is...
'Union is Strength'
W.L. Mackenzie, The Children of Peace and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Nineteenth-century Canada experienced two other revolutions apart from those of W.L. Mackenzie and Louis Riel: the transition to capitalism, and to responsible government. Union Is Strength argues that these major socio-political changes happened in Ontario without a revolutionary moment because of...