University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Designer Animals
Mapping the Issues in Animal Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Designer Animals is an in-depth study of the debates surrounding the development of animal biotechnology, which is quickly emerging out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace. This book innovatively combines expert analysis on the technology's economic, professional, ethical, and religious...
The Story-Takers
Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy's Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily. Writing at the rich juncture of cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic theories, Paula M. Salvio draws on visual and textual representations including...
Becoming Strong
Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Drawing on more than 150 in-depth interviews, Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence explores the diverse effects of trauma in the lives of homeless female victims of violence.
Laura Huey and Ryan Broll closely examine the negative patterns common to cases...
by Kate Madeleine Bottomley, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This light romance portrays in considerable detail the social life of Ottawa in the post-Confederation years. The gossip of the capital and the prevailing social customs strengthen the story of Honor Edgeworth's courtship. It is a novel of manners with a happy ending.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.
A comparative...
Highland Shepherd
James MacGregor, Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
In 1786, the Reverend James MacGregor (1759–1830) was dispatched across the North Atlantic to establish a dissenting Presbyterian church in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The decision dismayed MacGregor, who had hoped for a post in the Scottish Highlands. Yet it led to a remarkable career in what was still...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Teacher Education in a Transnational World brings together specialists from various disciplines and scholars with policy-making and high-level government and administrative experience to discuss the historical, sociological, and philosophical issues associated with teacher education in a global context.
Edited...
Federalism in Action
The Devolution of Canada’s Public Employment Service, 1995-2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.In Federalism in Action, Donna E. Woodassesses how Canada’s public employment service is performing after responsibility was transferred...
Gathering a Heritage
Ukrainian, Slavonic, and Ethnic Canada and the USA
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Since the 1970s and 1980s, the study of immigration and ethnicity has grown to become an essential aspect of North American history. In Gathering a Heritage, Thomas M. Prymak uses the essays and articles he has written over the past thirty years as a historian of Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian history...
Resurgence and Reconciliation
Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
The two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relations on the ground, in the courts, in public policy, and in research are resurgence and reconciliation. Resurgence refers to practices of Indigenous self-determination and cultural renewal whereas reconciliation refers to practices of reconciliation...
The World is Our Parish
John King Gordon, 1900-1989: An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
One of Canada’s most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming’s biography of Gordon explores the man’s many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his...
by David Farr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Parliamentary ombudsmen are appointed to investigate citizens' complaints and to provide checks on government administrative activity. In Canada, there are ten provincial and territorial ombudsmen, each with mandates over the whole of the public service within their regions. Though each ombudsman...
by Ted Allan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy. My Sister's Keeper was first produced at the 1976 Lennoxville Festival in Quebec. (an earlier version, entitled 'I've...