Death

Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a previously living organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable, universal process that eventually occurs in all living organisms.Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of a living organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered a living organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die. As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day.Many …

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

It is blamed for 619 deaths in BC, insinu- ating that this too was the result of climate change.


DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

Perhaps it was Papa’s way of dealing with Grandpa’s death, by trying to sound like him. To say something


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, …

well.1 In 2012 my ex-husband tried to choke me to death while I was sleeping. I was 23


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

Samira Saramo 2 The Accidental Underground: Death and Injury in Ontario’s Mining Industry 61 John Belshawviii Contents PART TWO | PRECAUTION 5 Life and Death in the Building of Montreal’s Victoria Bridge, 8 “Don’t Shoot Crooked Chute”: Memorializing Death and Mediating Risk on Ontario’s Petawawa River vast transportation networks invit- ed accidental death. The Quebec Bridge on the lower St Lawrence River marked by dramatic acci- dents.8 By contrast, the death of as many as four thousand Chinese railway workers


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

Pessoa worked on the manuscript from 1912 until his death in 1935, but the book was never assembled or published for an ethics of decision after the so-called “death” of the humanist subject.27 Ronell’s work, in its The Poetics of Translationbetween law/fact, right/death. In Chus Pato’s work, this figure would be the poet ated out of elegiac circumstances. If not through death, the friend remains an arguably marginal figure Parler, a text written shortly after Paul Celan’s death, Blanchot produces a text that illus- trates the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

so under hostile conditions (Humphreys received death threats), the history of child emigration remains Barnardo’s philanthropic empire in the century after his death,’ that grew from 1870s, coinciding with Nugent’s Correspondence files at LAC, newspaper obituaries and death notices, Barnardo’s Ups and Downs magazine, and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

there be occasion,” giving Reymes information about local situations and the cost of quartering sailors, their cure, deaths


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

conceal, and versatile instruments of defence and death. Even as a seven- year- old, Dejai carried a sharpened


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

of his personal transformation into Patty Conklin, and follows his incredible life through to his death in 1970. It covers his company's history after Jim Conklin took over, expanded it beyond recognition

and follows his incredible life through to his death in 1970. It covers his company’s history after constant discomfort, the ever- present illness and death — all are only bearable because their duration 20s and stayed for the next 20 years. After the death of his parents, he moved to New York City to become date so they can get back to making money. The death of J.W. conklin sr. and the Birth of Patty conklin both of whom were with him at the time of his death.” Joseph Renker had taken a third name, the one


DDN: Dundurn Press · 25 June 2024 English

A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale during the tumultuous ’60s.“I didn’t kill her. I had the thought, the idea. What’s the saying? …

the con- struction of the new city hall after the death of the original architect. Yes, he was a big wheel


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