University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities
The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the diverse, dynamic factors that affect cities’ ability to achieve this goal.
Based...
Love, Fear, and Health
How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology,...
by M. Owen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful? Why is the art of Richard Wagner, a very imperfect man, important and even indispensable to us?
In this volume, Father Owen Lee ventures an answer to those questions by way of a figure in...
Sapphic Fathers
Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers...
Child to Soldier
Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s...
Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'
The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and...
by Rachel A. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
One of the most celebrated Italian writers of the early Romantic period, Ugo Foscolo (1778–1827) was known primarily as a novelist, a poet, and a nationalist. Following the Napoleonic Wars, he lived in self-exile in England during the last decade of his life. There he wrote numerous critical essays...
Transforming Provincial Politics
The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
This comprehensive introduction to the study and practice of health and adult education provides the missing link for those seeking to better integrate their efforts in these two areas. Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, the book speaks clearly...
Social Perspective
The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2011
Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic...
Valerii Pereleshin
The Life of a Silkworm
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Olga Bakich’s biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913–1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he...
Vicarious Kinks
S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Who decides where “normal” stops and “perverse” begins? In Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist...
The Thaw
Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The period from Stalin’s death in 1953 to the end of the 1960s marked a crucial epoch in Soviet history. Though not overtly revolutionary, this era produced significant shifts in policies, ideas, language, artistic practices, daily behaviours, and material life. It was also during this time that...
Canada's Navy, 2nd Edition
The First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with United Nations and NATO forces, Canada's navy – now celebrating its one hundredth anniversary – has been an expression...