University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
by Shirley A. Fedorak
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world by which it is surrounded. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest students.The second edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada. Approaching questions of social justice from the perspectives of race, youth, precarious workers, Indigenous peoples, and the LGBTQ community, the contributors...
Long Night at the Vepsian Museum
The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book takes readers to the village of Sheltozero in northern Russia. It highlights a tiny community of indigenous people called Veps, known colloquially as "the forest folk" for their intense closeness and affiliation with the forests in their ancestral territories. Davidov uses a tour...
Changing Theories
New Directions in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts the impact of social change on theories, acquaints readers with a sample of individual theorists (the "transitional giants" who shaped contemporary...
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and diplomacy...
by Alex Mills
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Biology of Sex is a lively and intellectually challenging textbook. Mills analyzes the biological basis of sex by considering genetic, physiological, and evolutionary principles. In order to explain the biological aspects of human sex, he uses direct and intriguing comparisons with the many variations...
Mental Disorder
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists,...
The Long Road to Change
America's Revolution, 1750-1820
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-developed desire for independence, but rather by a series of shifts...
The Joy of Stats
A Short Guide to Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
As a stand-alone text, a self-study manual, or a supplement to a lab manual or comprehensive text, The Joy of Stats is a unique and versatile resource. A "Math Refresher" section and self-assessment test offer a concise review of the needed math background. A "How-To?" section...
Power, Money, and Trade
Decisions that Shape Global Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book is an introduction to International Relations that uses examples from International Political Economy (IPE). It presents the theories and paradigms of International Relations in the context of the issues of trade, investment, and monetary relations. Largely it does so by developing historical...
The End of the Charter Revolution
Looking Back from the New Normal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies...
Gregory of Tours
The Merovingians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Georgius Florentius Gregorius, better known to posterity as Gregory, Bishop of Tours, was born about 538 to a highly distinguished Gallo-Roman family in Clermont in the region of Auvergne. Best known for his 10-book Histories (often called the History of the Franks), Gregory left us detailed accounts...
by Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the...
Political Thought in Canada
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of...