University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
'Designing Women'
Gender and the Architectural Profession
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2000
Historically, the contributions of women architects to their profession have been minimized or overlooked. 'Designing Women' explores the tension that has existed between the architectural profession and its women members. It demonstrates the influence that these women have had on architecture in...
by Richard Albert, Paul Daly, Vanessa MacDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach. Featuring essays from both emerging and established...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
For centuries, courts across the common law world have developed systems of law by building bodies of judicial decisions. In deciding individual cases, common law courts settle litigation and move the law in new directions. By virtue of their place at the top of the judicial hierarchy, courts at the...
by Ronnie Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Italian words that resemble words in English but have different meanings are the cause of student bafflement and some hilariously mistaken usage. Examples of falsi amici that continue to amuse teachers of Italian include casino, which is a brothel or mess, not a gambling place, and intossicazione,...
Outward and Upward Mobilities
International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
People move out to move up. Like other migrant groups, student mobility is a form of social mobility, and one that requires access from a host state. But there are multiple institutions with which students interact and that influence the processes of social mobility. Outward and Upward Mobilities...
Politics of Survival
The Conservative Part of Canada, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Professor Granatstrin's book is a fascinating account of the Conservative party's struggle for survival during the Second World War. In some respects a new departure in Canadian history and with some startling parallels to present-day events and personalities in Canadian politics, it is the first...
Work in Transition
Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Despite the fact that many countries target highly skilled migrants for recruitment in the global labour market, few of those migrants are able to take full advantage of their educational and professional qualifications in their new homes. Work in Transition examines this paradox, using extended narrative...
Autonomous Motherhood?
A Socio-Legal Study of Choice and Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to...
Anaesthesia and Resuscitation
A manual for medical students (Second edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
As in most fields of medical practice many things in anaesthesia are done on an empirical basis: this speciality is dynamic and expanding, and today's dogma may become tomorrow's error. This introductory manual, now revised and updated in a second edition, was prepared by the Department of Anaesthesia...
by Ivan Halasz de Beky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This bibliography is an exhaustive, objective and unique list of sources in the study of an event the historical significance of which becomes continually more apparent. The list consists of over two thousand entries from books and pamphlets, periodical articles, motion pictures and monitored broadcasts....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Inspired by the question of "what’s next?" in the field of Canadian women’s and gender history, this broadly historiographical volume represents a conversation among established and emerging scholars who share a commitment to understanding the past from intersectional feminist perspectives. It...
by Oliver Courteaux
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The relationship between Canada and France has always been complicated by the Canadian federal government’s relations with Quebec. In this first study of Franco-Canadian relations during the Second World War, Olivier Courteaux demonstrates how Canada’s wartime foreign policy was shaped by the...
Beyond Bodies
Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and...
Violence and Nonviolence
Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Through an original and close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, this book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive. By revealing that violence and nonviolence are braided concepts arising from human action,...