Ships

A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying goods or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research, and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity, and tradition. In the Age of Sail a "ship" was a sailing vessel defined by its sail plan of at least three square rigged masts and a full bowsprit. Ships have supported exploration, trade, warfare, migration, colonization, and science. After the 15th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European …

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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 …

Ibn al-Rūmī laments Basra’s bustling markets, ships arriving and departing its ports, and its palaces any ship sailing from her or sailing to her – ships raised up in the sea like landmarks? Where are


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 29 October 2024 English

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …

stable workforce able to develop personal relation ships with customers. This organization’s human resource a fixed termination date), employment relation ships are normally considered to continue for an indefinite


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

used to mark merchant carts, shops, merchandise, ships, and grave- sites. My grandfather always wore a conflicting dates for when the Kaga Maru was built. The Ships List website reports it was built in 1901 and then other ships with the same name built later. Which one was right? The Japanese Merchant Ships Recognition “circle” in Japanese but was added to the names of ships as a term of endearment. Unlike the picture brides


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Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960.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 …

correspondence shows, he was also a man whose relation- ships with women were an essential part of his daily existence


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 …

While families still feature heavily, so do friend- ships and the complexities of the child’s world outside


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

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

his homosexuality and Jewishness. His relation- ships to both these identifications, at first tepid or even


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

Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …

Jacobean commonplace of figur- ing playhouses as ships.5 Important to The Tempest, this metaphor is 24


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 …

suspicious of the church. Building significant relation- ships in our communities allows us to share the good news


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

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

Turtle Island. Reciprocal, respectful relation- ships with First Nations and all Indigenous peoples must


AOHC: Association of Ontario’s Health Centres · 2 October 2024 English

Montclare acknowledges historical and everyday barriers to lifelong participation by young women and girls in sport and recreation – as players and coaches, media and social media specialists, entrepreneurs and …

went on to perform shows on the biggest cruise-ships in the world. Since then, she has been connecting


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