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The Finger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Finger

In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from cave art to Picasso's Guernica, from Van Dyck's and Rubens's winning ways with gloves to the longstanding French taste for tapering digits. But Trumble also asks intriguing questions about the finger in general: How do fingers work, and why do most of us have five on each hand? Why do we bite our nails? This witty, odd, and fascinating book is filled with diverse anecdotes about cow-milking, the fingerprint of a grave robber in King Tut's tomb, and a woman in Trumble's local bank whose immensely long, coiled fingernails do not prevent her from signing a check. Side by side with historical discussions of rings and gloves and nail varnish are meditations on the finger's essential role in writing, speech, sports, crime, law, sex, and, of course, the eponymous show of contempt.

Report of the Secretary of the Senate
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1248

Report of the Secretary of the Senate

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Tax Notes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Tax Notes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Aberdeen University Calendar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

The Aberdeen University Calendar

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1943
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Calling for Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Calling for Change

Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada. Published in English.

Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1156

Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Doctoral Dissertations in History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Doctoral Dissertations in History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 876
Calendar of the University of Sydney
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1208

Calendar of the University of Sydney

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Board of Education, Detroit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 566

Proceedings of the Board of Education, Detroit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1958
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Contains proceedings of annual, regular and special meetings.