University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun ch'onghwa
A Story Collection from Nineteenth-century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”). Prose tales that feature historical people and places but may also include fantastical elements, the yadam...
by Antonello Borra, Guittone d'Arezzo
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Guittone d’Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, his work has been overshadowed by his successor; the more learned and gifted Dante Alighieri.
The poems and prose included in this volume are...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century III
Papers presented at the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.
The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich...
The Lily and the Thistle
The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In The Lily and the Thistle, William Calin argues for a reconsideration of the French impact on medieval and renaissance Scottish literature. Calin proposes that much of traditional, medieval, and early modern Scottish culture, thought to be native to Scotland or primarily from England, is in fact...
Strengths-Based Child Protection
Firm, Fair, and Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Strengths-based, solution-focused practice is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary child protection work. The demand for this protection practice has increased faster than the availability of training resources to help students and practitioners, until now.
Strengths-Based Child Protection...
Exhibiting the German Past
Museums, Film, and Musealization
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the German Past examine a range of films, museums, and experiences...
Settling and Unsettling Memories
Essays in Canadian Public History
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings...
School Rules
Obedience, Discipline and Elusive Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
How much say should students have in shaping their schools' disciplinary cultures? Should they have the power to weigh in on contentious issues like favouritism, discrimination, ‘no hats’ rules, and zero tolerance? What if pupils disagree with their teachers and administrators on certain rules?...
Social Science and Modern Man
Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
The main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. The author argues that the chief inspiration for this effort, insofar as it has been successful, has been the rationalist philosophy of physical science, and that constructive social science has been based...
Indigenous Methodologies
Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
What are Indigenous research methodologies, and how do they unfold? Indigenous methodologies flow from tribal knowledge, and while they are allied with several western qualitative approaches, they remain distinct. These are the focal considerations of Margaret Kovach's study,which offers guidance...
by Warren Rubenstein, Yves Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
A practical, hands-on resource for physicians in all specialties, Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care is a guide on training medical students and residents in settings such as private practices and hospital clinics. Concise, engaging, and easy to follow, it is an ideal handbook for the busy practitioner...
Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum
Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
From improved critical thinking to increased self-esteem and school retention, teachers and students have noted many benefits to bringing Aboriginal viewpoints into public school classrooms. In Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives Into the School Curriculum, Yatta Kanu provides the first comprehensive...
Growing into Resilience
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Despite recent progress in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensuring SGM youth experience fairness, justice, inclusion, safety, and security in their schools and communities remains an ongoing challenge. In Growing into Resilience, André P. Grace and Kristopher Wells – co-founders...
The Holistic Curriculum
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007
Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience - connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between individual and community, and between the personal self and the transpersonal self.
First published in 1988, The Holistic...