University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by John Bossons, John Palmer, S.M. Makuch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Municipal licensing serves a variety of regulatory purposes such as consumer protection and public health and safety. The municipal licensing power is delegated from the provincial government, up to the present, municipalities have been restricted to enumerated, specific powers, and the result has...
Moose Pastures and Mergers
The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets...
Critical To Care
The Invisible Women in Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2008
Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...
Following Sexual Abuse
A Sociological Interpretation of Identify Reformation in Reflexive Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Sexual abuse is a subject that has received and continues to attract a considerable amount of scholarly attention. However, most studies tend to treat sexual abuse as strictly personal and isolated suffering. Following Sexual Abuse attempts to develop a broader perspective on this important issue...
Theatre of Urban
Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2007
Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare,...
Seeing Through the Veil
Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not only on medieval science but also on theories of knowledge, and this changing relationship of vision...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious...
by S.D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
By questioning the widely accepted picture of suburban society which has been developed by many sociologists, social psychologists, and other serious students of social science, as well as by popular writers, this book will challenge much of our thinking about certain trends and developments in present-day...
Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology (As Applied to Atopic Disease)
A Manual for Students and Practitioners of Medicine (Fourth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This is a practical reference volume for the student or practising physician to aid him in the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of allergy in children. It is based on procedures used at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. In this new fourth edition, material has been added and...
Medieval Celtic Literature
A Select Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
The focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450. Priority is given to the most recent critical works and editions, provided that they supersede previous ones; however, earlier scholarly work and critical...
by F. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
As an outstanding educator and economist, Dr. F. Cyril James is particularly well qualified to observe modern Russia, and to comment upon it for Western readers. While he disclaims any right to speak with authority on the basis of his recent tour, the reader will quickly realize that he was actually...
A Great Rural Sisterhood
Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
As the founding president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Madge Robertson Watt (1868–1948) turned imperialism on its head. During the First World War, Watt imported the “made-in-Canada” concept of Women’s Institutes – voluntary associations of rural women – to the...
by William F. Ganong, Theodore F. Layng
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the years from 1929 to 1937 included a series in nine parts of important papers on "Crucial Maps" which have been a frequent source of reference ever since for students of the history of discovery and of early cartography. Their author,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies."
The collection strives to practice...