Books published by University of Toronto Press

What’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.

Paradoxical Leadership reveals how to use tensions between seemingly contradictory perspectives as a driver for sustainable success and innovation.

This new English translation of Hegel’s 1819/20 lectures on the philosophy of Right presents an accessible and engaging version of Hegel’s mature legal and political thought.

In the context of real-world dilemmas, Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights explores fundamental questions about the purpose and nature of constitutions, states, and nations.

This collection explores Vergil’s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.

Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.

Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.

Politics of the Periphery discusses empirical studies of post-metropolitan regions around the world.

An Indwelling Voice presents a framework for understanding how, despite linguistic and philosophical barriers, sincere voices are written and read in poetry.

This collection of essays on Catalan cinematography explores one of the most vibrant minority cultures in Europe.

Shedding light on the political implications that arise from narrative decision-making, this book examines animated non-fiction from the Spanish-speaking world.

Drawing from Soviet archives, Stalin’s Gamble traces the role played by the Soviet Union in the origins of the Second World War.

This book examines Vienna’s Burgtheater, the most prestigious German-language stage in the nineteenth century.

Drawing on historical case studies, this book explains why international rivals intervene in civil conflicts.

This unabridged, annotated English translation of Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino brings this popular Italian Renaissance romance to English readers for the first time.

This book illuminates the history of experimental poetics in relation to the legacy of Iberian colonialism in the early twentieth century.

In Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger's thinking about Being.As in his earlier books, Capobianco offers a meditative path through Heidegger's thought. He illuminates major motifs that are overlooked or set aside by most contemporary readings of Heidegger, amplifying these motifs in an original, heartfelt, and eloquent way. The book also offers a series of reflections that bring Heidegger's thinking into close proximity to other thinkers and poets, including Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Rumi.Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding is intended not only for dedicated students of Heidegger's work but also for engaged general readers who wish to come to a deeper appreciation of his distinctive vision of Being.

This book sheds light on Irish republican prisoners during the Northern Irish Troubles and the ways in which they shaped the peace process from within the internment camps and prisons.

This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient, showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.