University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed
Selected Readings for Clinical Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Do statistics-heavy research papers give you a headache? Are you baffled by bias, confused by correlation, or flummoxed by F-tests? A Guide for the Statistically Perplexed is here to help! This book is designed to assist students, clinicians, and researchers in becoming familiar with statistical and...
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship?
Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential...
by Jonathan White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes – viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles – White offers...
by Marion Bogo
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2010
Field education is considered by social workers to be the most crucial part of their professional preparation, as it allows students to engage with communities, apply theoretical concepts, and develop their skill sets. In Achieving Competence in Social Work Through Field Education, Marion Bogo synthesizes...
Portfolio to Go
1000+ Reflective Writing Prompts and Provocations for Clinical Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Preparing a learning portfolio has become a mandatory part of the course work in most clinical professions. Students and educators alike sometimes complain that these mandatory assignments become repetitive and uninspired. However, we all need to be able to speak and write clearly as we work with...
Nova Scotia
A Health System Profile
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Despite notable variation in health care policy from province to province, most scholarship published on the health care system in Canada uses a broad national perspective. Focusing on the health care systems of individual Canadian provinces and territories, our new series, Health System Profiles,examines...
by William Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Procedure in the Canadian House of Commons is an attempt to survey the whole field of Canadian procedure historically and analytically, to establish what the procedure of the House was in 1867 and to trace its slow development—its evolvement through principles, traditions, rulings, and precedents—to...
Mothering a Bodied Curriculum
Emplacement, Desire, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that...
Caddisflies
The Underwater Architects
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Caddisflies constitute the insect order Trichoptera in which some 10,000 species are known in the world, including about 1400 in North America. Fossil evidence shows that caddisflies originated in the Triassic period, 200-250 million years ago. They are important links in the movement of energy and...
Picturing Knowledge
Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1996
The traditional concept of scientific knowledge places a premium on thinking, not visualizing. Scientific illustrations are still generally regarded as devices that serve as heuristic aids when reasoning breaks down. When scientific illustration is not used in this disparaging sense as a linguistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political...
Crossing Central Europe
Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Scholars from Canada, the United States, and Europe identify the motifs, topics, and ways of artistic creation that define this cross-cultural region....
Combating Poverty
Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades. While Canada is routinely classified as a single, homogeneous ‘liberal market’ regime,...
Preserving on Paper
Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses."
Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books–handwritten manuals that included a combination of...