University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Writing Unemployment
Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This landmark study explores the cultural and literary history of unemployment in Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s, which were crucial decades in the formation of our current conception of Canada as a nation. Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated...
Something's Got to Give
Balancing Work, Childcare and Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A perfect storm of factors are brewing that will redefine dependent care in the coming decades. Delayed marriage and parenthood, longer life-spans, lower birthrates, and the health policy shift to informal caregiving have drastically increased the number of employees whose mental and physical health...
Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In Insurgency Online, Michael Dartnell focuses on a new form of conflict made possible by global communications. The Internet, Dartnell argues, is affecting extensive changes to the way politics are carried out, by inserting a range of non-state actors onto the global political stage. He demonstrates...
Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII
The Sexual Process in the Uredinales
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1950
This is the last volume of the late Professor Buller's monumental work on Fungi. Before his death in 1943, Dr. Buller had completed the manuscript; the final preparation for press has been made by Dr. G.R. Bisby of the Imperial Mycological Institute, Kew. Publication of the volume has been sponsored...
Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 2
The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major...
by Hans Bekker-Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work.
The Private Member of Parliament and the Formation of Public Policy
A New Zealand Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
In this attempt to determine the degree of power or influence possessed by the New Zealand private Member of Parliament, Robert Kelson has consulted parliamentary documents, the New Zealand press, and party documents. His study is based as well on data collected during attendance at the House and...
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Volume II: G-K
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
The appearance of Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine makes the second stage of a major publishing project. Based on twenty-five years' research by more than 100 scholars from around the world, the encyclopedia provides the most essential information about Ukraine and its people, history, geography,...
Russian Literature, 1995-2002
On the Threshold of a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized...
Erasmus
His Life, Works, and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.
by David Bond, Ronald Wonnacott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Published for the Private Planning Association of Canada as part of the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series, this book covers impact of trade liberalization on Canadian agriculture, prospects for trade liberalization in agriculture, as well as trade liberalization and the Canadian pulp and paper industry and trade liberalization and the Canadian furniture industry.
Red Quarter Moon
A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Anne Konrad's Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad's ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they became special objects of Soviet persecution....
Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson
From Possessive Individualism to Democratic Theory and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s...
Canuck Rock
A History of Canadian Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2009
The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations...