Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is the same, regardless of the species of origin. The trade in certain teeth and tusks other than elephant is well established and widespread; therefore, "ivory" can correctly be used to describe any mammalian teeth or tusks of commercial interest which are large enough to be carved or scrimshawed.Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 17 September 2024 English
At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it …
Belgium in 1905,31 in the French colony of the Ivory Coast32 and Switzerland in 1908,33 in Holland in …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
In lush and vivid poems, Cynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns …
stems lined from fat to slim, each cupped in its ivory stand. Pine-soot ink sticks, hard and black and … among other objects of wealth – candle-snuffer with ivory cup, silver table-crumb remover, cement servant-quarters …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 10 September 2024 English
Harold Rhenisch’s poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties laid out in couplets that move between English and …
becoming a language for more than the dance of ivory fingers and that you staged for the fascists and …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 10 September 2024 English
The essential bestselling guide to designing and leading useful and effective group conversations, now completely revised and updated Integrating over 60 years of research and development, this essential guide to …
We discover it in empirical experience, not in ivory-tower abstraction or even virtual reality. Second …
CHB: Coach House Books · 10 September 2024 English
CBC BOOKS' "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024" Imagining a vast blue expanse of what a poem might be The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky …
the Butchery, hosted by Martin Figura and Helen Ivory. ‘List&Ning’ – These tiny poems of gratitude …
FLA: Flanker Press · 6 September 2024 English
In a city of sinners… The Disciple is on a mission to rid the city of sinners. With a twisted view of the Bible, he finds unique ways to kill …
pushes a sleek, stainless steel letter opener with ivory handle toward him, and once again Travis smothers …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English
A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories. Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the …
the rack, while his other hand sought for his ivory letter knife. He pressed his belly against the …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 27 August 2024 English
the bulk of the world’s population and the vast Today, many nations of the Global South have majority of youths, nations in the Global South feel recognized the significance of …
Republic of Language Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal …
3ci: Carleton Centre for Community Innovation · 29 July 2024 English
Governments are flailing—and, so far, failing—as they try to put in place the necessary policies and incentives for the private, public, and non-profit sectors to accelerate the construction of the …
DC. Baldwin, D.L. (2021). In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower. How Universities are Plundering Our Cities … (2007). The University & Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets. Philadelphia: University …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …
Stark. Bare lightbulbs humming in the vanity. White Ivory Soap that Grandma Jerry used to make me eat when …
