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Mennonites in the Global Village - Leo Driedger - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Mennonites in the Global Village - Leo Driedger - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Before the 1940s, ninety per cent of Mennonites in North America lived on farms. Fifty years later, less than ten per cent of Mennonites continue to farm and more than a quarter of the population - the largest demographic block - are professionals. Mennonite teenagers are forced to contend with a broader definition of community, as parochial education systems are restructured to compete in a new marketplace. Women are adopting leadership roles alongside men. Many Mennonites have embraced modernity. Leo Driedger explores the impact of professionalism and individualism on Mennonite communities, cultures, families, and religion, particularly in light of the scholarly work of futurists Alvin and Heidi Tofler, which has described the shift from a homogeneous industrial society to a diversified electronic society. Driedger contends that Mennonites are in a unique position in meeting the electronic challenge, having entered modern society relatively recently. He traces trends in Mennonite life by reviewing such issues as the shift from farming to professionalism, the role of mass media, the role of active leadership, and increased social interaction. Menonites face many of the other challenges that religious minorities in North America encounter in the move to modernity, and this study provides in-depth insights into this transition.

DKK 329.00
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Baroque Visual Rhetoric - Vernon Hyde Minor - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Baroque Visual Rhetoric - Vernon Hyde Minor - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning. Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini’s Baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica, the statues in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Borromini’s church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Baciccio’s frescoes in the church of Il Gesù, the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, and the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano.

DKK 737.00
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Le Turpin Francais, De Le Turpin I - Ronald Noel Walpole - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Le Turpin Francais, De Le Turpin I - Ronald Noel Walpole - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Vers le milieu du douzième siècle un clerc inconnu se faisant appeler Turpin, archevêque de Reims, écrivit une ‘histoire’ de ‘Charlemagne et Roland’ en latin. L’inconnu s’identifia à Turpin, guerrier saint et aime de la Chanson de Roland; à son personnage inspire d’un Charlemagne déjà monarque légendaire et emblème vivant de cet idéal tant envié du roi bon et fort, il donna pour compagnons Roland et ses pairs et, ayant traversé avec ceux-ci et avec l’armée des croises les épreuves des guerres d’Espagne, il écrivit la vérité sur tout ce qu’ils avaient fait et enduré ensemble. Cependant, l’invention majeure du pseudo-Turpin est d’avoir fait de St Jacques le génie tutélaire de la croisade de Charlemagne en Espagne, le bon ange qui arrive miraculeusement au bon moment et enfin, l’intercesseur qui obtient le salut ultime de Charlemagne. La matière de laquelle le pseudo-Turpin puisa son récit est cette tradition épique française dont une partie nous est esquissée aujourd’hui, seulement dans son œuvre. Les épisodes de cette croisade, qui dura quatorze ans, furent empruntés à l’épopée : ici, on pense surtout à la Chanson de Roland et à sa grande tragédie de Roncevaux transformée, de poésie qu’elle était, en historie contrefaite et en fausse piété. Nous avons dans Turpin 1 cette histoire-là. Elle fut traduite vers 1210—20 en français, en prose, celle-ci devenant de plus en plus le véhicule privilégie par les raconteurs. La traduction n’existe plus dans sa forme originale, mais le manuscrit qui a servi de base au présent ouvrage reste fidèle au texte latin, en plus d’être rédigé en prose claire et incisive. Les copies du manuscrit, neuf en tout, montrent avec quelle liberté les scribes manipulaient la langue de l’original. Dans une rédaction de notre Turpin I – une rédaction représentée par six manuscrits et reproduite intégralement en appendice dans cette édition – la préméditation associée à l’intervention des scribes revêt plus d’importance. Vers la fin de la chronique, cette fois, on introduit St. Denis, que l’on pose en rival a St Jacques en lui confiant le rôle qui non seulement assure le salut de l’Empereur, mais accroit l’importance de L’Abbaye de St-Denis a la fois comme siège politique et comme véritable cœur de la France.

DKK 313.00
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Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, energy policy has been increasingly linked to concepts of sustainable development. In this timely collection, editor G. Bruce Doern presents an overview of Canadian energy policy, gathering together the top Canadian scholars in the field in an examination of the twenty-year period broadly benchmarked by energy liberalization and free trade in the mid-1980s, and by Canada''s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2002. The contributors examine issues including electricity restructuring in the wake of the August 2003 blackout, the implications of the Bush Administration''s energy policies, energy security, northern pipelines and Aboriginal energy issues, provincial changes in energy policy, and overall federal-provincial changes in regulatory governance. They also demonstrate that, since per capita energy usage has actually increased in the past several years, sustainable development remains very much a struggle rather than an achievement. When the Kyoto Protocol and its requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are factored in, the Canadian record is especially dubious in basic energy terms. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada''s endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities.

DKK 564.00
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Hidden Heads of Households - Mary Lorena Kenny - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Hidden Heads of Households - Mary Lorena Kenny - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the city, how they negotiate their existence, and why they stay are just some of the questions addressed in this fascinating study. Mary Kenny spent close to 15 years in the urban areas of Northeast Brazil talking with and interviewing children. She even gave them disposable cameras to document their daily lives (many of the photographs they took are included). Rather than lament a lost childhood, or try to save these children, Kenny explores some of the complex conditions under which these children work and live. She illustrates how unrelenting scarcity shapes family and, by extension, children''s options, decisions, and worldviews. The issues raised in this book are of critical importance. There are no easy answers, but listening to how these children define themselves and their circumstances is an important step towards understanding and ultimately solving economic and social inequality.

DKK 195.00
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Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development - - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, energy policy has been increasingly linked to concepts of sustainable development. In this timely collection, editor G. Bruce Doern presents an overview of Canadian energy policy, gathering together the top Canadian scholars in the field in an examination of the twenty-year period broadly benchmarked by energy liberalization and free trade in the mid-1980s, and by Canada''s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2002. The contributors examine issues including electricity restructuring in the wake of the August 2003 blackout, the implications of the Bush Administration''s energy policies, energy security, northern pipelines and Aboriginal energy issues, provincial changes in energy policy, and overall federal-provincial changes in regulatory governance. They also demonstrate that, since per capita energy usage has actually increased in the past several years, sustainable development remains very much a struggle rather than an achievement. When the Kyoto Protocol and its requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are factored in, the Canadian record is especially dubious in basic energy terms. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada''s endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities.

DKK 391.00
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Italian Film in the Present Tense - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Italian Film in the Present Tense - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary. Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema’s new sources of industrial strength, its re-placement of the Rome-centred studio system with regional film commissions, its contemporary breakthroughs on the aesthetic front, and its vital engagement with the changing economic and socio-political circumstances in twenty-first-century Italian life. Examining works that stand out for their formal brilliance and their moral urgency, the book presents a series of fourteen case studies, featuring analyses of such renowned films as Il Divo, Gomorrah, The Great Beauty, We Have a Pope, The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, and Fire at Sea, along with lesser-known works deserving of serious critical scrutiny. In doing so, Italian Film in the Present Tense contests the widely held perception of a medium languishing in its "post-Fellini" moment, and instead acknowledges the ethical persistence and forward-looking currents of Italian cinema in the present tense.

DKK 295.00
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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to represent such an infamous history. Roberto Benigni''s popular Life is Beautiful (1997) is an obvious example, but there have been a number of other works that have not been exported that also attest to a distinct tendency within Italian domestic production to address the issue. Millicent Marcus''s Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz looks at this development, attributing the new acceptance not only to an international film sensation, but to a domestic cultural climate at once receptive to Holocaust representation, and ready to produce its own forms of historical testimony. Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives - psychoanalytical, ideological, mass cultural - to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s. What emerges is a fascinating look at how film is being used to confront a particularly damning aspect of cultural history. Marcus''s study features in-depth analyses of five recent Italian films: Ricky Tognazzi''s Canone inverso , Ettore Scola''s Concorrenza sleale , Andrea and Antonio Frazzi''s Il cielo cade , Alberto Negrin''s Perlasca , and Ferzan Ozpetek''s La finestra di fronte . As an added feature, the book includes a DVD of Scola''s short film ''43-''97 , which has been unavailable outside of Italy until now.

DKK 304.00
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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz - Millicent Marcus - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to represent such an infamous history. Roberto Benigni''s popular Life is Beautiful (1997) is an obvious example, but there have been a number of other works that have not been exported that also attest to a distinct tendency within Italian domestic production to address the issue. Millicent Marcus''s Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz looks at this development, attributing the new acceptance not only to an international film sensation, but to a domestic cultural climate at once receptive to Holocaust representation, and ready to produce its own forms of historical testimony. Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives - psychoanalytical, ideological, mass cultural - to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s. What emerges is a fascinating look at how film is being used to confront a particularly damning aspect of cultural history. Marcus''s study features in-depth analyses of five recent Italian films: Ricky Tognazzi''s Canone inverso , Ettore Scola''s Concorrenza sleale , Andrea and Antonio Frazzi''s Il cielo cade , Alberto Negrin''s Perlasca , and Ferzan Ozpetek''s La finestra di fronte . As an added feature, the book includes a DVD of Scola''s short film ''43-''97 , which has been unavailable outside of Italy until now.

DKK 548.00
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Rockbound - Frank Parker Day - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

Rockbound - Frank Parker Day - Bog - University of Toronto Press - Plusbog.dk

To the harsh domain of Rockbound -- governed by the sternly righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung --comes the youthful David Jung to claim his small share of the island. Filled with dreamy optimism and a love for the unspoken promises of the night sky, David tries to find his way in a narrow, unforgiving, and controlled world. His conflicts are both internal and external, locking him in an unceasing struggle for survival; sometimes the sea is his enemy, sometimes his own rude behavior, sometimes his best friend Gershom Born, sometimes his secret love for the island teacher Mary Dauphiny; but always, inevitably, his Jung relatives and their manifold ambitions for money and power.The balance of life on Rockbound is precarious and thus fiercely guarded by all who inhabit its lonely domain, but just as a sudden change in the direction of the wind can lead to certain peril at sea, so too can the sudden change in the direction of a man''s heart lead to a danger altogether unknown.Enormously evocative of the power, terror, and dramatic beauty of the Atlantic sea, and unrelenting in its portrait of back-breaking labour, cunning bitterness, and family strife, Rockbound is a story of many passions-love, pride, greed, and yearning -- all formed and buffeted on a small island by an unyielding wind and the rocky landscape of the human spirit.Canada Reads 2005 Winner!In a David and Goliath style battle to the finish, Rockbound by Frank Parker Day triumphed over Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and was declared the 2005 Canada Reads winner. In a series of debates that aired on the CBC in February, panelist Donna Morrissey, author of Kit’s Law and Downhill Chance, passionately championed this 1928 novel about life and nature on the small maritime island of Rockbound. The victory has brought this Atlantic Province favourite back into the limelight and is receiving nationwide attention, appearing on several bestseller lists across the country.After its initial publication, Rockbound remained in out of print status until 1973, when the University of Toronto Press acquired the rights to publish as part of their “Literature of Canada Prose and Poetry in Reprint” series. It was reprinted with an introduction by Allan Bevan of Dalhousie University’s English Department.In 1989, Gerald Hallowell, an editor with the University of Toronto Press, rescued Rockbound from the backlist of the UTP catalogue. The book was reprinted with an afterword by Gwendolyn Davies, Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Vice-President (Research) at the University of New Brunswick.UTP had been selling around 200 copies of the book per year, until Donna Morrissey selected it for the Canada Reads debates. Since then, UTP has sold over 35,000 copies and it has been reprinted three times!The University of Toronto Press would like to thank Donna Morrissey for her superb defense of the book and all of the people at the CBC for their support and encouragement.

DKK 304.00
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