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This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from Benjamkin Disraeli's school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades.
This intensive study of the distinguishing characteristics, geographical distribution and variation, and habits and habitats of tiger beetles in Canada will provide a much-needed reference work. Professional and amateur entomologists alike will find this book a most useful aid in their investigations and a stimulus to further research.
This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the Old English Rune Poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working.
The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a propagandist for the Philosophic Radicals (a term he himself coined). They provide a contemporary running account of British political issues at home and abroad, with a vigorous and sometimes acerbic commentary.
In this book, Professor Dobson has laid the foundations for a systematic and scientific study of the grammar of Classical Chinese.
This dictionary treats some 694 particles, the nuclei, as it were, of the grammar of Classical Chinese.
A long forgotten novel first published anonymously in 1834 written by Benjamin Disraeli and his sister Sarah.Two appendixes explain the literary detection that proved the book's authorship and the parallels between the politics of Aubrey Bohun and Disraeli.
In this book Augustinus Dierick focuses on another significant but hitherto neglected medium of German Expressionist thought - short narrative prose - in order to illuminate and evaluate the contribution of that genre to one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic movements.
This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota.
Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision is the first full-length critical study of De Quincey's imaginative writings. De Luca traces continuing themes and their transformations throughout De Quincey's career, and he offers sustained critical readings of De Quincey's major works.
This book examines the varied uses of illusion, deceit, disguise, and manipulation in Shakespeare's plays, both comedies and tragedies, and traces Shakespeare's use of illusion through his career.
This volume consists of some 3,000 entries of plays, monologues, and entertainments for amateur groups written before 1900 by British and American women writers.
In The New North-West, this series of articles and others dealing with northwestern Canada have been brought together in one volume, and the result is a comprehensive description and analysis of the western half of the Canadian northland.
Room to Grow is a source of insight into the needs of children and the problems of parents. The lives of seven children provides the focus for this penetrating look into the experiences that shape personality.
The work reported in this book represents the first attempt to study a sample of client families with marital and parent-child problems using a systematic framework based on role-theory.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Sir Robert Filmer's thought, its context, and its place in English political thought as a whole.
During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education.The collection as a whole is a valuable addition to intellectual history and a stimulating contribution to discussion of university affairs today.
Objectivity in Social Science combats the widespread opinion that objective inquiry is impossible in the social sciences by drawing together and exhibiting the weaknesses of arguments, taken from various concentrations.
To launch the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto a conference was held with distinguished authorities invited to discuss the challenges and responses for Industrial Relations in the next decade. This volume, based on the papers presented, will be a welcome contribution to knowledge in this challenging field.
In Oral Formulaic Language in the Biblical Psalms, Robert C. Culley discusses dynamics involved in oral composition of poetry, particularly regarding Biblical poetry.
The essays included in this book are the proceedings of a conference held by the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, 1967.
Creative Canada presents a cross-section of many different kinds of artists. Within each category of art is included a selection of those who have achieved national and international recognition; those who have been recognized locally, and some who markedly influenced their contemporaries.
Creative Canada presents a cross-section of many different kinds of artists. Within each category of art is included a selection of those who have achieved national and international recognition; those who have been recognized locally, and some who markedly influenced their contemporaries.
Craigie focuses on proving the existence of a Northern literary culture, comparing English literature with Northern literature, especially that of the Scottish and Scandinavians.
The anatomical study of an animal is chiefly a matter of applying a certain practical method of exposition, the student's attention being concentrated on those facts which can be made out by direct observation. This method is educative because it involves accurate discernment of detail, and it is the foundation of laboratory practice.
This book is an attempt to give students and general readers something of the story of the outpouring of British subjects who peopled British North America in the years before Confederation.
J.A. Corry, one of Canada's outstanding political scientists, in the Alan B. Plaunt Lectures for 1963 has contributed a brilliant and provocative analysis of the changed world in which politics and students of politics must operate today.
The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example of the autonomist tendencies in the communist movement after the First World War.
Professor Cornell in the present study has been concerned with the question of how far the Canadian parties of 1867 were already identifiable and continuing groups. From careful and extensive study, he has been enabled to draw some definite conclusions about the alignment of members and groups in the assembly.
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