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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witness...
$26.20
Since 1876, Jehovah's Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Charles T. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ's church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy the nations and establish his kingdom on eart..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Canadian Studies in the New Millennium
$9.44
The field of Canadian Studies is a growing discipline, particularly in the United States. This introductory text offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Do Men Mother?: Fathering, Care, and Domestic Resp...
$9.85
More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother provides groundbreakin..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Empowering Children: Children's Rights Education a...
$34.67
Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Chi..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts on Fishing...
$26.73
Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English translations, and analysis from social, cultural, and environmental perspectives of the three oldest European extended tracts on fishing. Richard Hoffmann discusses the history of fishing in popular culture and outlines the economic and ecol..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth: Chinese Treasur...
$46.05
One of the world's finest collections of Chinese art is housed in Toronto at the Royal Ontario Museum. For the first time, many of its most important and spectacular treasures are published in full colour with accompanying text.From a prehistoric jade bird 5000 years old to nineteenth-century scroll..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's R...
$23.90
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examina..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Keeping the Lakes' Way: Reburial and Re-creation o...
$107.02
Virtually unknown of First Nations in Canada, the Arrow Lakes or Sinixt Interior Salish of the North American Columbia Plateau have been declared officially extinct. This book investigates why this circumstance came about and how contemporary Sinixt have responded.Most of the Arrow Lakes people have..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
King Death
$29.97
The black death came to England in 1347 and for three centuries bubonic plague remained a continual and threatening presence in the everyday life (and death) of the country. The Black Death and subsequent population losses are central, therefore, to any understanding of the period.From rural laboure..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrati...
$19.90
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Explora...
$11.99
Product DescriptionContemporary research in periodical literature has demonstrated conclusively that the nineteenth century in Britain was the age of the periodical. It also has shown that, in Victorian society, the circulation of periodicals and newspapers was both larger and more influential than ..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Political Thought in Medieval Times (MART: The Med...
$9.66
Originally published by Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1958. Author: Morrall, John B. Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0802064132 ISBN-13: 9780802064134..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-...
$14.34
Highly acclaimed when the first edition appeared in 1989, "Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens" is the first comprehensive account of Indian-white relations throughout Canada's history. J.R. Miller charts the deterioration of the relationship from the initial, mutually beneficial contact in the fur trade t..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Bias of Communication
$18.86
One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: ...
$34.66
Writing is about communication. In our multimedia age, it co-exists with a developed oral culture of telecommunications, film and recorded sound. Through our television screens and popular press, it interrelates with sound and image in complex ways. Writing is nonetheless as important as ever as the..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Ma...
$30.72
Since its first appearance in 1962, the impact of The Gutenberg Galaxy has been felt around the world. It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
The University of Toronto: A History
$9.51
The University of Toronto is Canada's leading university and one of Canada's most important cultural and scientific institutions. Covering the history of the University from its origins as King's College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland weaves together personalities, events, and intellectual..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Theory Rules: Art as Theory / Theory as art (Herit...
$13.46
Product DescriptionIn art theory, as in cultural life generally, there has a long been tension between theory and artistic practice. The desire to resolve these tensions has been a principal impulse shaping artistic work and criticism over the last century. The last decade has seen the emergence of ..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in...
$8.45
A significant addition to our understanding of the varied experience of Middle Eastern women, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing - the volume, velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this female social world is remarkable. This work represents a substant..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators (...
$15.92
'The humanist idea of education is among the permanently influential legacies of the Italian Renaissance. Four short Latin treatises published between 1400 and 1460 define it admirably: Pier Paolo Vergerio's De ingenuis moribus et liberalibus adolescentiae studiis; Leonardo Bruni's De studiis et lit..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
William Osler: A Life in Medicine
$15.05
In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This new, definitive biography by Michael Bliss is the first full-scale life of Osler to appear since 1925. An award-winning medical historian, Bliss..