Moon
The Moon is Earth's only proper natural satellite. It is one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), making it the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and is larger than any dwarf planet. The Moon orbits Earth at an average lunar distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), or about 30 times Earth's diameter. Its gravitational influence produces Earth's tides and slightly lengthens Earth's day. The Moon is classified as a planetary-mass object and a differentiated rocky body. It …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 November 2024 English
Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an …
no dark side to the moon. Eclipses constantly …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …
bitterness of almond seeds What is truth? The moon moving the tides wave crashing on the rock wind … Sampson for teaching me this story. R Mégce (The Moon) M cwesétes-ekwe ne s7istk, m-yístes t̓ ̓ Nek̓ … swinúmtc-ekwe. Once upon a time, it was said that The Moon was beautiful. ri7 we7 t henes. During the winter … Gyep-ekwe r Mégce, m-tsútes, “Yíst-ce nen skwetús.” The Moon got mad, he shouted, “Camp on my face!” Necwetés … when you look at The Moon, you see Wala holding her pot and shovel on the moon. Conclusions Strong …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …
once I kissed in you the sweet lips of the full moon And to shed my tears in your presence, as I have … adorned with an embellished belt, resembling a moon resting upon the branch of the Ben-tree.35 39 … stars rose dimly on their horizon, the sun and the moon turned dark. 49 I see the lofty mountains brought … noble Badrīs, whose faces were as radiant as the moon. In its mosque, they prayed in the sun, unlike Baghdad …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English
“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …
leads into Manoominikewi-giizis (Harvest Moon)—a huge copper moon—and is accompanied by the preparation … roughly into “Strawberry Moon,” July (Mskomini giizis) means “Raspberry Moon,” and August (Manoominike … (Manoominike giizis) means “Ricing Moon.”11 In these rounds, toward the time of ripening, experienced ricers began …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English
“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …
in the waiting room. My belly is as full as the moon. The fetus inside, our second daughter, has just … and saw only the morose face of the full, shining moon. I was over- come with a heaviness and cloaked in …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …
lawn with her, the day the Americans landed on the moon. Her father had run from the house cheering, “History … the young man didn’t seem to care much about the moon. He wanted to be somewhere far more intimate. He …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …
sounds of people ~ just a little salt spray, the moon, and me thinking how much you would enjoy this …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English
A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …
book. It was called Polly Diamond Writes to the Moon. I loved the title and titles are often where my … Dunbar is a lovely example of this. So is Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Picture books for older …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …
our tiny back garden. Like planting a flag on the moon, it was my little horticultural statement of arrival …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English
With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.
themselves. Among the spruce I admit there is a moon at night. Somehow these pieces of driftwood are … cipher in its dry branches of driftwood. There is a moon among the spruce. The more I write, the more meaning … foregrounding the materiality of a mountain rising to the moon. “no other way to be in language but to bluff your …