University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Canada's 1960s
The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2008
Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of...
Collected Works of George Grant
Vol. 4: 1970 - 1988
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
George Grant (1918-88) has often been called Canada's greatest political philosopher and his work continues to influence the country's political, social, and cultural discourse and institutions. The fourth and final volume of the Collected Works of George Grant contains his writings from the last...
by Bernard Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Method in Theology stands, with Insight, as Bernard Lonergan's most important work. It is Lonergan's answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution the believer is afloat on a sea of multiplying theologies, without rudder or compass. Lonergan was resolute in his...
Remembering Mass Violence
Oral History, New Media and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes...
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment
Art, Science, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of...
The Idea of a Moral Economy
Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by the theologian Gerard of Siena. The questions represent the most influential late medieval formulation of the natural law argument against usury and the...
Creating Healthy Organizations
How Vibrant Workplaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The current global economic environment is defined by unprecedented uncertainty, a premium placed on knowledge, and the threat of future talent scarcity. Key to an organization's success under these conditions is its ability to strengthen the links between people and performance. Creating Healthy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In 1958 the Canadian Political Science Association established a committee to look into ways and means of improving statistical research in the social sciences in Canada. One of the ways in which the committee thought this could be done was by establishing an annual forum where papers could be presented...
Lowering Higher Education
The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and...
Arab Dawn
Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories...
Engaging China
Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing...
Continuities and Discontinuities
The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Continuities and Discontinuities assesses the making of Canadian social and labour market policy in the context of two factors—globalization and neoconservatism. Specialists from a variety of fields and disciplines examine the relation between Canada's changing political economy and its social...
Wicked Strategies
How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In business, some problems are so complex, intractable and threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” These problems appear to be unsolvable and they render traditional analytical tools of strategy virtually impotent.
Wicked Strategies...
Curriculum Reform in Ontario
'Common-Sense' Policy Processes and Democratic Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This first full account of curriculum policy formulation in 1990s Ontario helps readers understand the real-life experiences of policymakers both within the province and internationally.
Having worked as a policy analyst for the Government of Ontario, a public school teacher, and a university...