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A Brief History of UTP Higher Education

Michael Harrison, VP of the Higher Education Division, on how a Canadian university press ventured into textbook publishing in a serious way…

100 Years, 30 Volumes, and One Intellectual Legend

This Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Northrop Frye, one of Canada’s most important literary critics and cultural commentators. All sorts of tributes to Frye and reevaluations of his work have been cropping up to mark the occasion.

UTP Highlights from Congress 2012

One of our favourite events of year here at UTP is the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences: we get to spend quality face-to-face time with our authors, hear about innovative research at a variety of panels and sessions, and present a whole year’s worth of new publications at the Book Expo.

The Hill Times 100 Best Books – 2011 Edition

We are thrilled to announce that 18 UTP books have been listed on the Hill Times’ Best Books of 2011 List for political, government, public policy, and Canadian history reads.

An Interview With Joe Sornberger

“The thing that I’m probably most passionate about is to simply get the story out. The discovery of stem cells by two Canadian researchers is something that should be as familiar as the Banting and Best breakthrough — but somehow isn’t. To me, that is a huge oversight. I want people — Canadians particularly — to be proud of this. We celebrate our hockey players and performing artists but tend to give short shrift to our outstanding scientists whose work saves lives.”

Celebrating Marshall McLuhan

In September of 1960, Marshall McLuhan began conversations with an editor at UTP about a manuscript he was working on.

Award Season at UTP

UTP congratulates the following, and all UTP authors, who have won awards for their books.

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