University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Judging Bertha Wilson
Law as Large as Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society...
Histories of Suicide
International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological...
Fool For Christ
The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of...
Haunted narratives
Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies,...
Heidegger's Possibility
Language, Emergence - Saying Be-ing
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Although Being in Time is the more recognizable of Martin Heidegger's many books, his second major work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) also had a substantial impact on twentieth-century philosophy. Heidegger's Possibility is a careful and creative reading of this text by renowned scholar...
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario
Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national...
Masks of the Prophet
The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means?
To answer this question, the...
History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
Galileo
Pioneer Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Since publication of Stillman Drake’s landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science. Drawing largely from Galileo’s manuscript working papers, Drake now adds a wealth of detail...
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue,...
Living Masks
The Achievement of Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronted...
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners – including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, The Rite of...