University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
by Stephen Brooks, Douglas Koopman, J. Matthew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Understanding American Politics provides a unique introduction to the contemporary political landscape of the United States by using as its core organizing feature the idea of "American exceptionalism," a concept that is at least as old as Tocqueville's study of American democracy.
The...
Eating Culture
An Anthropological Guide to Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology—as the study of human beings, their culture, and society—has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrates the important role...
Eating Culture
An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.
The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions...
Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds
The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
These original essays show how the US government repeatedly aided certain regimes as they planned and then carried out crimes against humanity and genocide. What makes the collection unique—and chilling—is the inclusion of declassified documents generated by the US government at the time: memoranda,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective...
Conflict and Compromise
Post-Confederation Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Driven by its strong narrative, Conflict and Compromise presents Canadian history chronologically, allowing a better understanding of the interrelationships between events. Its main objective is to demonstrate that although Canadian history has been marked by cleavages and conflicts, there has been...
Canada and the United States
Differences that Count, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Canada and the United States: Differences that Count investigates why and how the United States and Canada—while so close and seemingly so similar—remain different in so many ways. In seventeen analytical yet readable chapters, leading authorities look at the American and the Canadian ways of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This unique reader allows students to examine Galileo's trial as a legal event and, in so doing, to learn about seventeenth-century European religion, politics, diplomacy, bureaucracy, culture, and science. Noted scholar of the trial Thomas F. Mayer has translated correspondence, legal documents,...
A History of Science in Society
From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.
New...
A History of Science in Society, Volume II
From the Scientific Revolution to the Present, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume II...
A History of Science in Society
From Philosophy to Utility, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make...
This Happened in My Presence
Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous.
The introduction explains the medieval origins of Deza's Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations and the changing policies toward religious minorities under the Catholic...
by Margaret L. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even took place. Margaret L. King's richly illustrated social history of the Renaissance succeeds as a trusted resource, introducing readers to...
by Peter Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Freshwater is in great supply across much of Canada. However, competing and changing demands on its use are leading to ever more complex political arrangements. This volume offers an integrated survey of that complexity, combining historical and contemporary cases in a conceptually-informed exploration...