Jewellery
Jewellery or jewelry (American English; see spelling differences) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal such as gold used in different carats from 21, 18, 12, 9 or even lower, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest …
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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 …
woman in traditional North African clothes and jewellery, before a mosque, holding up a full glass of …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English
“Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation.” — JEANNE BEKER, author, …
nod in approval and say, “Nice.” There was a jewellery store on Bloor Street, around the corner from …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 9 September 2024 English
The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields, including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields’s work, …
in the corner still unpacked. She keeps her jewellery, her earrings and beads, in a pottery bowl I …
CELA: Canadian Environmental Law Association · 30 August 2024 English
Submission by the Canadian Environmental Law Association to the Canadian Nuclear Safety 1500 no ISBN assigned Commission Regarding the Regulatory Oversight Report on the Use of Nuclear Substances in Canada: …
response to Health Canada's Draft Children's Jewellery Regulations and 455 1-894158-97-0 K. Cooper and …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 20 August 2024 English
Creative sector jobs are driving our economy and offer a viable career path for today's youth.Careers in the creative sector offer flexibility and security. Why then are more young people …
Crafts blacksmith, glass artist, goldsmith, jewellery maker, textiles designer 22 Why the Starving artiSt …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 17 July 2024 English
First, even though the share intangibles have not run out of steam in of intangible investment in nominal value terms of growth, the rates of growth of the added in …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of …
often at a small enough scale to be worn as jewellery and at times part of a miniature portrait composition …
CHB: Coach House Books · 4 June 2024 English
Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Boxer ‘Pillow Fist’ Pete Wilson should be preparing for …
when he’d shot his own big toe off during a jewellery store robbery and caught four years. Pillow had … Frenchman’s wife for an appointment to buy some custom jewellery and vibe sexually. Genevieve and Painlevé were … making movies, and Genevieve designed hipster jewellery and screen prints and ran the business, which … a black skirt, a clean white blouse, and no jewellery. A real cutie, to Pillow’s eye. Real in that she …
CHB: Coach House Books · 21 May 2024 English
What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world? Good Want entertains the notion …
the work wellness committee? To order gold jewellery online for no reason? To survive it? To …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 14 May 2024 English
How will emerging technologies affect the artisanal and small-scale mining sector?
miners have a long history of producing gold jewellery (McQuilken and Hilson, 2016; AMDC, 2017). In …
