University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Civic Symbol
Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today...
The Town of York 1793-1815
A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This volume, the fifth of the Ontario Series of the Champlain Society, tells the history of the town of York (Toronto) from the arrival of John Graves Simcoe in 1793 through the war of 1812 until news of the peace reached the town in the spring of 1815. The selection of contemporary documents attempts...
Sir Robert Falconer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Biblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man.
Design Works
How to Tackle Your Toughest Innovation Challenges through Business Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
High-profile business leaders in organizations around the world now use approaches and methods from the design world to drive breakthrough innovation and growth.
How can you translate design thinking into doing in a way that will lead to bigger breakthroughs and business strategies for success?
Design...
Making a Global City
How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.
Making a Global...
by Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
The original At the Mermaid Inn, one of the most notable literary endeavours in Canada, was the result of the combined efforts of three poets: Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918), Archibald Lampman (1861-99), and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947).
A Saturday column that ran in the Toronto Globe from...
by H. F. Angus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
This book brings together and interprets the information relating to Canada's contacts with Asiatic countries since the beginning of the Second World War. Lucidly written and freshly presented, it will be of great interest to everyone concerned with international affairs.
As Canada's policies...
The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a...
Kensington Market
Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto's Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and many others. Despite repeated transformations, the neighbourhood has never lost its vibrant,...
Sweatshop Strife
Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1992
In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and American...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is...
University College
A Portrait, 1853-1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1953
For a century University College has had a profound and continuous influence on the cultural development of Canada. The authors of this volume show us University College as a political and educational institution; as a physical structure that has aroused admiration and scholarly curiosity; as the...
The Portuguese in Canada
Diasporic Challenges and Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2009
Even though the Portuguese are relatively new to Canada, they have made major contributions to the cultural mosaic of the country. Containing many new essays, this second edition of The Portuguese in Canada updates the work that filled a gap in the scholarly literature of multiculturalism in Canada.
The...
Reviewing Mario Pratesi
The Critical Press and Its Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
A prolific member of the Tuscan verismo school of literary realism, Mario Pratesi (1842–1921) was much respected during his career but sadly neglected after his death. Using Pratesi’s personal archive, now preserved at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Reviewing Mario Pratesi takes...