Books published by University of Toronto Press

Professor Graham tells the story from the first conquest of the ocean by the armed sailing ship at the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the wooden ship of the line in the nineteenth.

Professor Graham's book gives useful and practical suggestions on how to go about becoming fluent in French. It offers not a course of instruction, but a listing of practical ways of applying oneself to a study of the language.

This study demonstrates how Joyce's characters go through the conflicts he himself experienced and how Joyce was concerned not only with the grotesque potential of life but also with its comic dimension, attempting to transmit that 'feeling of joy' which he adopted early as his artistic commitment.

The main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. A discussion of the major problems confronting man in his attempts to come to grips with the modern social world ends with a plea for liberalism and rationalism as the political and intellectual foundations of freedom and progress.

As a boundary, the 49th parallel is entirely manmade and will never really divide the Northern Great Plains, for it is a region at once geographically and historically united. Professor Gluek gives here a detailed and engrossing account of the complex relationship that developed between St. Paul and the Red River Settlement from 1821 to 1870.

The results of an examination of Proterozoic rock groups, and of others which were for reconnaissance only, are summarized in this volume of the Royal Society of Canada.

This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative fiction, and shows how late classical and medieval authors adopted techniques and perspectives from rhetoric, philosophy, and sometimes theology to fashion figures who define not only themselves but also their readers.

This book is the first portion of a study of the Neil McNeil Home children.

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume, and it describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and its research activities.

The development and functions of the Department of Education and local school systems, the financing of education, and the educational activities of provincial and federal governments are studied in this volume. The emphasis is on current issues and problems.

This volume discusses some current issues and problems in education, and the main body of the text describes the quantitative growth of the educational system.

Written for everyone seriously interested in education, whether specialist or general reader, this volume provides an analysis and overview of the key issues that have arisen in education in the last decade and evaluates the prospects for formal education in the future, concentrating on interpretation rather than statistics.

This standard text meets the need for a single source of detailed information on the drugs in use in English-speaking countries.

Here is a description of a lively and unusual tour of industrial Britain in the period which reached its public climax in the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The twenty years from 1867 to 1887 form a period of significant transition in the history of the British Empire. The present volume makes an intensive examination of the fashioning of imperial policy towards Canada in this period.

This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, containing a wealth of factual information on various aspects of one of the most interesting regions in Europe.

This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated.

The Plaunt Lectures for 1965 deal with the perennial problem of moral man in immoral society, the society in question being the international states-system.

This book looks at Pentland's life and career as she moves from her native Winnipeg to study in Montreal, Paris, and New York and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland, and becoming known as a performer and composer.

This study sets out to explain the nature of the relationship José Bergamín (1895-1983) had as a critic and prose writer with the major poets of the 1920s and 1930s, and at the same time systematically examines the singularity of his own work as an aphorist, essayist, and dramatist.

This biography explores the life and career of one of the province's most successful politicians.

In this anthology an effort has been made to include representative selections from the most significant sixteenth-century French poets.

In this volume the development and activities of universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and other institutions of post-secondary education are described in detail. The public and private training activities of business and industry are outlined, and government programs for adult retraining described.

This volume entails the reminiscences of the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister, Ellen Fairclough.

At one time considered a trade, dentistry gradually evolved and attained professional status, structured in such a way as to recruit middle-class white men; by definition, a professional was a gentleman. A unique and fascinating social history.

This study is concerned with the way in which the determination of how the unity of the sciences is to be conceived presented itself to philosophers as a specifically philosophical or logical problem.

In The Thoughtful Leader, Jim Fisher provides an invigorating, inclusive and positive framework for teaching current and aspiring leaders in all walks of life.

This book describes the origin, growth, and achievements of school broadcasting in Canada. The book is the first authoritative description, by the man largely responsible for its success, of an important and fruitful experiment in federal-provincial co-operation in the thorny field of education.

At a think tank, a group of ethicists, geneticists, physicians, lawyers, and theologians gathered in an attempt to apply some features of Bernard Lonergan's notion of functional specialization to ethical debates surrounding genetics. Editor H. Daniel Monsour has brought together a series of articles presented at this think tank.

The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions.