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Isolation Reading for the Week of May 11

Every Monday we’re bringing you some great books chosen by our staff for your work-from-home reading. This week, Breanna Muir, our Product Marketing Specialist, has chosen The Hotel as her staff pick. Enjoy!

Robert A. Davidson’s The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the function of our modern-day hotel. It’s much more than the lodging for the intrepid traveller: in this book it becomes the backdrop for cinema, photography, art, and culture.

Featuring an entire chapter on my favourite filmmaker So
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Weathering the COVID-19 storm: University of Toronto Press —

Many academic conferences for the 2020 season have been cancelled, or moved online, meaning that we have needed to quickly create a new model to promote our books virtually. For spring conferences, including the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting, we have designed Virtual Displays to promote our list on our YouTube channel. Some of these displays even include insightfu
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Behind the Scenes: UTP Catalogue Process

Everyone at UTP was delighted to share with you the recent launch of our Fall/Winter 2020 Catalogue. In this post, we reached out to Breanna Muir, our Product Marketing Specialist who oversees the process, and we asked her to take us behind the scenes into the catalogue process at UTP.

It’s always a new calendar season in book publishing, and here at the University of Toronto Press, we’re already looking ahead to a new list of books for the 2021 year! As the Product Marketing Specialist, I’m al
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UTP Holiday Gift Guide: Top Ten "Food for Thought" Books

Have you ever wondered why the donut is a symbol of our Canadian identity? Or how exactly chocolate made its way from the New World to Spain? And why fruits such as oranges, grapes, and pomegranates are depicted in so many paintings? Sure to appeal to the appetites of foodies and culinary intellects alike, we’ve curated a list of Top 10 “Food for Thought” Books.

Feel good this holiday season by supporting university press publishing. Books make the best gifts!

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