University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
The Arts in Canada
The Last Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien...
Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss
Figuring the Social
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
A leading public intellectual, Michael Bliss has written prolifically for academic and popular audiences and taught at the University of Toronto from 1968 to 2006. Among his publications are a comprehensive history of the discovery of insulin, and major biographies of Frederick Banting, William Osler,...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Two: A Critical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning...
Sir John Beverley Robinson
Bone and Sinew of the Compact
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.
The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its...
Innovating for the Global South
Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than $2 per day and lack basic human necessities such as nutritious food, shelter, clean water,...
Multicultural Cities
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What defines a multicultural city? Policy? Geography? Demography? In Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America’s premier multicultural metropolises – Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles – that demonstrates the critical qualities that make these cities...
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied. Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants...
The Soviet Wood-Processing Industry
A linear programming analysis of the role of transportation costs in location and flow patterns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Systematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt...
by Ruud Lubbers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
The longest serving Dutch Prime Minister (1982-94), Professor Lubbers is known for his support of liberal values, social equity, human rights, democratic governments, and spirituality. In this book he explores ways to conciliate these values with global economization.
Dr. Lubbers argues that...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
'Frye was a person of uncommon gifts, and very little that came from his pen is without interest.' So writes Robert Denham in his introduction to this unique collection of twenty-two papers written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one...
by Lorraine York
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including...
Leading the Modern University
York University’s Presidents on Continuity and Change, 1974-2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Founded in 1959, York University is now the second largest university in Ontario and third largest university in Canada. However, starting in 1970s the success of the university was far from guaranteed.
Leading the Modern University documents the challenges and solutions that five successive...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of his birth. Each contributor came from a different institution, and Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand...
Browning's Lyrics
An Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Browning's lyrics are favourite choices for anthologies but are rarely examined closely. This is the first full-length study of the lyrics, and includes detailed analyses of such well-known poems as Love Among the Ruins, Two in the Campagna, A Serenade at the Villa, A Toccata of Galuppi's, By the...