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David Margrave
The Plumber Who Outwitted the IRS
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The entirety of our monetary system has been proven to be flawed by a small-town South Pasadena, California plumber. How flawed? He paid not only his bills and the IRS, legally, in gold and silver coins, he never utilized standard notes, checks or credit cards for over 30 years.
David never...
The Thesis and the Book
A Guide for First-Time Academic Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
The academic caveat Publish or Perish is not a new one, and for over a quarter of a century, The Thesis and the Book has come to the aid of graduate students in their quest for publication. The doctoral dissertation, usually the first book-length study completed by a scholar, is, however, only rarely...
by Kirk Melnikoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard...
Kegan Paul – A Victorian Imprint
Publishers, Books and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and...
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...
The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Making Books and Mapping Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada...
Victorian Jesus
J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher...
In Search of Greatness
Reflections of Yousuf Karsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
In this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work. It is the story of an Armenian immigrant boy who rose to be the world's finest portrait photographer, whose pictures, reproduced in...
by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue...
by Richard Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
The year 1962 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Richard Bentley (1662–1742), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, editor of Paradise Lost, but principally and justly famous as one of the greatest classical scholars. To mark the event, the University of Toronto Press is issuing a special reprint...
The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848
Volumes XII-XIII
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies. They inaugurate most auspiciously the edition of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill planned and directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
The medieval English allegorical poem, The Court of Sapience, was written in the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown author. It is best described as an encyclopaedia: in the allegory the poet describes the nature and activities of wisdom in all its aspects. He includes a moving account of...
Uncle Sam and Us
Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2002
Between them, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien radically altered the structure and functions of the federal government, first by signing and implementing major trade liberalization projects, and then by cutting back the size of their governments' budgets and the scope of their policies. Uncle Sam...
Making the Scene
Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for...