University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Ramsay Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
John W. Dafoe was a dominant figure in western Canadian political history during the first half of the twentieth century. As editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from 1901 to 1944, he gained an international reputation for his perceptive analysis of the issues facing Canada and the world. He was at the...
PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel
A Nation on the Couch
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, has long been defined as a mental trauma that solely affects the individual. However, against the backdrop of contemporary Israel, what role do families, health experts, donors, and the national community at large play in interpreting and responding to this...
Steel City
Hamilton and Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
From its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted.
The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada offers a vast array of viewpoints that critically analyze the application and interpretation...
Shaping Academia for the Public Good
Critical Reflections on the CHSRF/CIHR Chair Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the...
Human Expeditions
Inspired by Bruce Trigger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In its 2007 obituary of Bruce Trigger (1937–2006), the Times of London referred to the Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist as “Canada’s leading prehistorian” and “one of the most influential archaeologists of his time.” Trained at Yale University and a faculty member at McGill University...
Perspectives on Modernization
Essays in Memory of Ian Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Perspectives on Modernization is published in memory of Ian Weinberg, a sociologist of brilliant promise who died at the age of thirty. It consists of essays by his colleagues, students, and teachers which reflect upon and carry further Ian Weinberg's major scholarly concerns – the processes of...
Tending the Student Body
Youth, Health, and the Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
In the early twentieth century, university administrators and educators regarded bodily health as a marker of an individual’s moral and mental strength and as a measure of national vitality. Beset by social anxieties about the physical and moral health of their students, they introduced compulsory...
Co-Teaching in Higher Education
From Theory to Co-Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Co-Teaching in Higher Education, edited by Daniel Jarvis and Mumbi Kariuki, brings together an international group of educators and scholars to examine the theoretical frameworks and practical experiences relating to co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing at the post-secondary level.
Co-teaching...
Leadership is Half the Story
A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.
Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership,...
The Retail Value Proposition
Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
How do leading retailers create value for their customers? They craft unique experiences at compelling prices. This book introduces a new and effective way to manage those experiences based on three critical factors – environment, selection, and engagement (ESE) – that separate successful retailers...
Canada
What It Is, What It Can Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take their place alongside developed economies, we cannot be complacent. Our high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health...
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada...
Wilde Discoveries
Traditions, Histories, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde’s remarkable career, the “Oscar Wilde and His Circle” archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world’s largest collection of materials relating to the life and work...