University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Understanding Climate Change
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.
Understanding...
Our War on Ourselves
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates...
by Seung Hyok Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan. In the first case, the North Korean tests provoked only Japanese alarm and severely constrained action. In the second, the tests led to unilateral economic sanctions – the first time since...
Escape from the Staple Trap
Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting...
Diaspora by Design
Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.
A comparative, multi-ethnic...
by Laurie Mook
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
When organizations use social accounting practices, they are able to measure their performance in terms of benefits accrued to key stakeholders such as their communities, human resources, and those investing in the organization. This innovative change in accounting can lead to a fundamentally different...
Does North America Exist?
Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.
Clarkson's rigorous study...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
Our Battle for the Human Spirit
Scientific Knowing, Technical Doing, and Daily Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations of this shift in our civilization.
Our...
Documenting First Wave Feminisms
Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This book is the second of a two-volume anthology of primary source documents on feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in its extensive treatment of the first-wave feminist movement in Canada, it highlights distinct elements of its origins and evolution.
The book...
Racialized Migrant Women in Canada
Essays on Health, Violence and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within...
Public Policy For Women
The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2009
Containing essays from leading feminist academics, and social activists, Public Policy for Women addresses important public policy issues that fail to address women's needs. The volume's contributors pay particular attention to the relationship between the welfare state and vulnerable populations...
Fishing in Contested Waters
Place & Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
After the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mi’kmaw fishers’ treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster fishery across Atlantic Canada. At Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj, New Brunswick, the Mi’kmaw fishery provoked violent confrontations with neighbours...
Green Japan
Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic...