University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Recalling Recitation in the Americas
Borderless Curriculum, Performance Poetry, and Reading
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Spoken word is one of the most popular styles of poetry in North America. While its prevalence is often attributed to the form’s strong ties to oral culture, Recalling Recitation in the Americas reveals how poetry memorization and recitation curricula, shaped by British Imperial policy, influenced...
Say What I Am Called
The Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book & the Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2009
Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial...
Impossible Joyce
Finnegans Wakes
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake has repeatedly been declared to be entirely untranslatable. Nonetheless, it has been translated, transposed, or transcreated into a surprising variety of languages – including complete renditions in French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean, and partial...
The Odonata of Canada and Alaska
Volume Three, Part III: The Anisoptera–Three Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Dr. Walker and Dr. Corbet make a signal contribution in gathering together all available information on the dragonflies of Canada and Alaska. The order as a whole and the zygoptera are covered. The treatment is not confined to taxonomy and geographical distribution, but includes data on habitats, seasons of adult life, and brief notes on habits when these are available.
Reading as the Angels Read
Speculation and Politics in Dante's 'Banquet'
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
An uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the Banquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts. As Maria Luisa Ardizzone shows, its language and logic are deeply connected to medieval culture and the philosophical...
Mathematical Recreations & Essays
Twelfth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. Although they often involve fundamental mathematical methods and notions, their chief appeal is as games or puzzles rather than the usefulness of their conclusions.
This...
Alien Albion
Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how...
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres
The Contested Administration of the Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed...
by Donald G. Frantz, Norma Jean Russell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This second edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary originally published in 1989 adds more than 300 new entries and amplifies over 1000 others. The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana....
by International Association of Geodesy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Electromagnetic distance measurement, by using light and microwaves for direct linear measurements and thus circumventing the need for traditional methods of triangulation, may well introduce a new era in surveying. This book brings together the work of forty-eight geodesists from twenty-five countries....
by James Ferguson, George Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
Now in its third edition, this standard text meets the need for a single source of detailed information on the drugs in use in English-speaking countries. Dr. Henderson based his book on the British Pharmacopoeia, and the revisers have included the preparations in the fourteenth revision of the United...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a neuro-developmental disorder that affects one in every twenty children. Children with DCD have problems with motor coordination that make everyday tasks such as active play, writing, eating, and dressing difficult and frustrating. Despite how common this...
Social Support, Health, and Illness
A Complicated Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2011
When a person faces serious illness, having the support of one's partner can help protect against the full ravages of disease, and even hasten recovery. However, too much support can have grave clinical consequences for sufferers and exact a heavy emotional and financial toll on caregivers. Social...
by Ivan Halasz de Beky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
This bibliography has been compiled with the aim of providing a useful tool for linguists, scientists, translators, and students of the Hungarian language. It covers a variety of subjects, from atomic physics to card games, from fifteenth-century Latin-Hungarian glossaries to twentieth-century underworld...