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by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...
Heidegger's Possibility
Language, Emergence - Saying Be-ing
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Although Being in Time is the more recognizable of Martin Heidegger's many books, his second major work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) also had a substantial impact on twentieth-century philosophy. Heidegger's Possibility is a careful and creative reading of this text by renowned scholar...
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by...
The Court of Appeal for Ontario
Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national...
Living and Working with Schizophrenia
Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
For the families of schizophrenics, fear, guilt, frustration, and despair can become part of daily life. Several years ago the authors of this volume established a program at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto to help the families of schizophrenics cope with the sometimes debilitating emotions...
Masks of the Prophet
The Theatrical World of Karl Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
'When the name "Hitler" is mentioned, nothing occurs to me' – so said Karl Kraus. For this leading Viennese Jewish critic and intellectual the touchstone of art was ethics. How could he be speechless in the face of a threat to all that ethics means?
To answer this question, the...
History of Medicine, Second Edition
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine has for ten years been one of the leading texts used to teach medical and nursing students the history of their profession. It has also been widely used in history courses and by general readers. An accessible overview of medical history, this new edition is greatly...
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.
Galileo
Pioneer Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Since publication of Stillman Drake’s landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science. Drawing largely from Galileo’s manuscript working papers, Drake now adds a wealth of detail...
Citizens and Nation
An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history.
In a different approach to that old issue,...
by Amy Carney
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
From 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and...
Living Masks
The Achievement of Pirandello
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronted...
by Robert Barr, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian...
Foreign Modernism
Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Style in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris was the cosmopolitan hub of Europe and home to a vast number of foreigners – including the writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians who were creating works now synonymous with modernism itself, such as Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, The Rite of...