University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Albert Kirk Grayson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Early Assyriologists were lured to Babylonian studies by the light which cuneiform text shed on ancient history and the Bible, and for later scholars this is still the attraction. The Age of Discovery is not past, and one can still read literature that has been unseen by the eyes of man for millennia....
The Letter and the Cosmos
How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation’s statement that Jesus is “the Alpha and Omega,” we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence...
Erasmus and Voltaire
Why They Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Despite comparisons between Erasmus and Voltaire having become common-place in the course of the nineteenth century, this is the first full study to bring them together in their careers, their works, and their historic afterlives. Each was a force for change in his time and thus ranks among the masters...
Mencius
A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens
A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade...
Jean Monnet and Canada
Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union. Monnet spent his early years working as an agent for his father, a cognac producer. It was this experience that took him to Scandinavia, England,...
The Contemplative Practitioner
Meditation in Education and the Workplace, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Meditation is a simple and practical activity that can enrich our lives and work in innumerable ways. It allows us to connect more deeply to ourselves and others and to the environment. In this book, John P. Miller, an expert in the field of holistic education, looks at mediation and how it can be...
Affecting Grace
Literature from Lessing to Kleist
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Affecting Grace examines the importance of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays within German literature and thought after 1750 – including its relationship to German classicism, which favoured unreflected ease over theatricality. Kenneth S. Calhoon examines this tension against an extensive backdrop...
Mafia Movies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multiple cultures—from...
Restructuring Canada's Health Systems: How Do We Get There From Here?
Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Is the Canadian health care system becoming a victim of its own success? It has done what it set out to do – provide universal access to all medically necessary health services without financial barriers to patients – but expanding technology, an aging population, and escalating costs strain its...
Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
Anna Maria Ortese
Celestial Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays...