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'Being Alive Well': Health and the Politics of Cre...
$9.80
'Being Alive Well': Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being is a critical medical anthropological analysis of health theory in the social sciences with specific reference to the James Bay Cree of northern Quebec. In it the author argues that definitions of health are not simply reflections of phy..
A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader, 2nd Edition
$9.08
The 'death of literature' and the rise of post-structuralist theory has breached the traditional opposition between the literary canon and popular culture, both in principle and in academic practice. When first published in 1992, The Critical and Cultural Theory Reader served the growing need for a ..
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiqui...
$47.13
For readers who wish to trace the evolution of scripts in the West from antiquity to the early modern period, and who want to read the work of their scribes, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of materials supported by 55 full-page illustrations from manuscripts. Brown provides a synopsi..
A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne
$10.55
Father Owen Lee is internationally known for his intermission commentaries featured during the Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne gathers together for the first time Father Lee's best broadcast and cassette commenta..
Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada...
$12.04
The history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples after European contact is a hotly debated area of study. In Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Sarah Carter looks at the cultural, political, and economic issues of this contested history, focusing on the western interior, or what w..
Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent-Seeking...
$37.10
The second edition of the groundbreaking Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness, and Rent-Seeking Behaviour expands upon its original analysis of the economic policies that affect agriculture and agribusiness. Widening their lens to include information on the European Union, the authors continue to empha..
Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and...
$7.51
About the AuthorGeorge Wenzel is an anthropologist and geographer who teaches at McGill University, Canada.Product DescriptionThe campaign to ban seal hunting in Canada won international headlines and achieved its aims to a large extent. Most observers felt instinctively that the campaigners were "r..
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..
Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610-1070 (MAR...
$18.48
Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966.Focusing on the middle period in Byzantium's eleven-century history as its most imperial era, Jenkins considers a number of events that changed the course of world history: the repulse of the Saracens from the gates of Constantinople in 678 and ..
Canada, symbols of sovereignty: An investigation o...
$20.77
Book by Swan, Conrad Author: Swan, Conrad Publisher: University of Toronto Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0802053467 ISBN-13: 9780802053466..
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..
Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology
$9.61
Influenced by Thomas Kuhn's work on paradigm shifts in the social sciences, this overview of contemporary theory identifies major themes, charts the impact of social change on theories, acquaints readers with a sample of individual theorists (the "transitional giants" who shaped contemporary theorie..
Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales...
$24.37
Review'Its quantity of information and the centrality of its subject matter to Chaucer studies will ensure the Chaucerians will go back to it time and again, for scholarly reference, for helpful summaries, and for guidance for students.' Studies in the Age of ChaucerProduct DescriptionThe General ..
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials, and...
$10.77
The Vikings are not known for their literate legacy. Little of what they once inscribed in runes on wood, bone, and stone has survived. However these runic inscriptions are a valuable primary source of information on the Viking Age. They alow us to see the Vikings from their own point of view, unlik..
Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequence...
$31.26
What motivates individuals to take up arms against their government What types of states have historically been more prone to internal conflicts In Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences Marie Olson Lounsbery and Frederic Pearson explore these questions and present a comprehensive ana..
Class and Race Formation in North America
$8.64
On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into ..
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Collected Works of A.M. Klein: Literary Essays and...
$30.40
The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.Among the subjects that come under the critic's unbl..
Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World
$27.64
Antisemitism is reappearing in disturbing new ways and in unexpected strength. This resurgence is of deep concern to politicians, practitioners of law, the academic community, and to informed citizens everywhere. To address this, a scholarly conference was assembled at the University of Toronto in 2..
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Commu...
$56.75
About the AuthorBelinda Leach is a professor and associate dean (research) in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph.Anthony Winson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.Product DescriptionContingent Work, Disrupted..
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Wome...
$17.42
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, develo..
Craft of the dyer: Colour from plants and lichens ...
$39.97
Book by Casselman, Karen Leigh Author: Casselman, Karen Leigh Publisher: University of Toronto Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0802023622 ISBN-13: 9780802023629..
Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair...
$23.25
Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somali..
Design with Type
$9.42
Design with Type was first published in 1952 and appeared in this multi-award-winning revised edition in 1967, which was the first Canadian work to be named Book of the Year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Its author, Carl Dair (1912-1967) was one of Canada's best-known and most ce..
Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and An...
$24.54
Patrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant academics and a leading expert internationally in the theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an English translation of Pavis's acclaimed Dictionnaire du théâtre, now in its second printing in France.This encyclopedic dictionary includes theore..
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..