University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Schooling for Life
Community Education and Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, schools and communities find themselves struggling with concerns of youth violence, child poverty, and race relations in an economy mired in recession. In Schooling for Life, esteemed community educator Dale E. Shuttleworth brings his rich experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated,...
by Natalia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories that Ginzburg wrote between 1933 and 1965.
These...
The Force of Family
Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University...
Industry and humanity
A study in the principles of industrial reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin....
Playing God
Medieval Mysteries on the Modern Stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Religious drama was one of the most vital art forms of the medieval era. In medieval mystery plays, God appeared as one of the characters, along with angels, saints, the devil, and others. Until very recently however, the revival of interest in medieval culture has not included drama, beacuse of a...
REED in Review
Essays in Celebration of the First Twenty-Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and future of the project...
by Christine Arkinstall
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Christine Arkinstall’s historical and literary study of female freethinking intellectuals in fin-de-siècle Spain examines the contributions of three intellectuals, Amalia Domingo Soler, Angeles López de Ayala, and Belén Sárraga, to the development of feminist consciousness and democracy. These...
by Michel Sanouillet, Harold Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty-five crisp and amusing short stories in this collection prove that elementary readings in French can also be entertaining. Some are original anecdotes and others adaptations of traditional French of French-Canadian stories, some are from anonymous sources, and some by acknowledged masters...
The Filled Pen
Selected Non-Fiction of P.K. Page
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays – meditations – on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature, painting, and film that have had special significance...
The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti
An Edition and English Translation of His Dialogue on Mechanics, 1576
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Mechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical...
The Thousandth Man
A Biography of James McGregor Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war...
by Harry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The echoes of Laurier's remarks about Canada and the twentieth century are taking a long time to fade away. It is one of the purposes of Professor Johnson's Alan B. Plaunt Lectures (given at Carleton University in 1962) to silence them, for they can prove dangerous and misleading—like a siren song—in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1965
The making of a reasonably comprehensive anthology which is intended to do more than reflect the personal literary tastes of the anthologists is not an easy task, but is certainly an exciting and challenging one. It is important, of course, if it is to have coherence and validity, that its audience...