Ice

Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color. In the Solar System, ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far away as the Oort cloud objects. Beyond the Solar System, it occurs as interstellar ice. It is abundant on Earth's surface – particularly in the polar regions and above the snow line – and, as a common form of precipitation and deposition, plays a …

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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, …

yellow and correct. Tap your brakes when you hit ice. His face is rounded, but still masculine. His that he just doesn’t like heat that much. Watch for ice on bridges. Once fire ants crawled up my legs in winter night air. Blackness of parking lots and ice-covered pavement. Yeah, he tells me, sharks, wrist veins circling snow leopards, arctic ice shifts haunting deep. Some humming drowns out crashing learned 6. grandmother died in downy drifts, sleeping ice crystals, frost dust eyes. 7. Earth does not rise


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 …

Canada as viewed by fire,” from before the Little Ice Age to contemporary climate change.4 Pyne compellingly


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 …

stabbings, and the numbers get truly disturbing. Ice picks, machetes, and ratchet knives were the weapons


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

folds of his waistcoat and tops up his drink, the ice almost gone. His wife joins him, and he looks up nerves.” A waiter comes and she asks for water and ice. The man across from her strokes his moustache and


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? …

still the sharp lights burning on the walls. An ice machine clunked and gurgled in an alcove to the left


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

the Imogene on the ice at the front. 78 12 The Imogene pushing through heavy ice. 78 13 The Imogene and dangerous enterprise conducted off- shore on ice that drifted south from Arctic waters, supplemented (1916–2009) be- came participants when they went to the ice aboard the Imogene, a vesselIntroduction · 19 owned


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 June 2024 English

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for …

could be.24 But snow on the roads and fields, like ice on the rivers, actually made travel easier on the sort of weather to clean it of snow and hit the ice. After one cold, windy night, “Keith froze ears bad fun when you could. 16 March 1926 Fine. Finished ice. Skating to-night. Hooking. Have sold a lot of wood winter for ice and a bad one for wood. Each year, the Webbs checked to see when the ice in the pond inches was the minimum, and in March 1926, the ice was 30 inches. Large slabs were sawn free, hauled


NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

regions, where increased temperatures have caused ice to melt, expos- ing darker land and ocean beneath heat, warming the planet further and melting more ice even faster. The yin-yang, associated with Taoist


DDN: Dundurn Press · 11 June 2024 English

An anarchist online group sets out to assassinate the corporate elites they believe have turned culture into a digital nightmare.“A blistering look at what our online and offline lives have …

skillfully pretended he cared about the Antarctic ice sheet, goofing off on his father’s money for a doc- trussed into nooses, up on gallows, rendered on an ice floe adrift on an Arctic- green sea. Polar bear criminals are hung, dropped through a trap door in the ice floe, their game characters actually killed. Brilliant students to the South Pole to see the changes in the ice. And then to Montana to see the melting glaciers


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 …

the formerly frozen bottle of water he’d used to ice his plantar fascia from under the couch toward her


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