Rivers

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in …

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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, …

exceptionalism and the demarcation of Nature from City. Rivers covered by concrete beds disappear from our consciousness stepfather to watch waves eat away the shore. Making rivers with tributaries in reverse. A delta leading to


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

hospitalizations.9 • Fires were breaking out on US rivers and lakes because the water was so polluted, and


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

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

pure province. But around us is open space. Great rivers, great cities, great seas. One must embark. Sail


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 …

home country. Harry’s River was one of the best rivers for salmon fishing in Newfoundland, and Lady Walwyn


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 …

snow on the roads and fields, like ice on the rivers, actually made travel easier on the Island for


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 …

Soviet- era irrigation projects to divert the feeder rivers. We situated our game landscape circa 2003, at


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 June 2024 English

Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …

otherwise generous, as well as majestic. The rushing rivers and long “canals” (inlets) teemed with edible everywhere infrequently breached by transverse rivers (the Skeena, Nass, Fraser, and Columbia were the through the mountain wall, at least wherever arterial rivers afforded routeways (indeed, Vancouver carelessly Selkirk at the junction of the Pelly and Lewes Rivers, in order to preserve their own intermediary role


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English

Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …

clair rougir l’eau” of the Assiniboine and Red rivers (4: 222). He is also concerned that Manitoba no


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 6 June 2024 English

Natural infrastructure is a cost-effective solution to simultaneously address Canada's climate, biodiversity, and other environmental, social, and economic priorities. There is an urgent need to increase funding for natural infrastructure …

natural infrastructure features, moving water (rivers and engineered drainage) was the dominant natural Function group Class Category Restored riparian area Rivers and drainage Restored Natural Engineered wetlands and wetlands Restored Natural Diversion channels Rivers and drainage Engineered Grey Conserved parks and


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 sea. And the windows of me the house were rivers, flowing out of my eyes. And the walls were octopi


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