Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy mainly as visible light and infrared radiation. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometres (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, and accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Roughly three quarters of the Sun's mass consists …
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CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English
Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those ‘stabs of self’ that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. …
imperative, benevolence. Mid- afternoon laterals the sun: Augie refuses to agree he’s cold. Hours seep … unlike me. Yet I’ll steal an iota from the noiseless sun, glossy and recital ready. The best of us, down … hope & starry tumble like swanning into the sun. A microsecond’s suicide. An and. Another saccade … conjure a heliotropic flow- erhead, a hand held to the sun, ‘I’ am the glow of skin under incandescent light … thinnest of effervescent layers just then hit by the sun, an anechoic chamber whose hush is heroic, without …
Fraser Institute · 7 May 2024 English
Despite substantial spending increases by the British Columbia government, the provinceâs health-care wait times have increased and student test scores have declined. After nearly a decade of relative spending restraint, …
such as the National Post, Toronto Sun, Windsor Star, and Vancouver Sun. Acknowledgments The authors wish …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 3 May 2024 English
Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern and skill. These conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, …
always somebody laying there, you know, in the sun, and they’re all just visiting and enjoying themselves …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English
Rose Drury and her partner, Lucy, have just learned that their son, Roger, is considered to be below average — at the third percentile rank in most areas, according to …
in Calgary, before the clocks had changed, the sun was getting low, but everyone else in the parking … have to be the plan?” This was early August; the sun was hot. I had not had enough to drink, and as a … once more, louder. The crow cawed again, and the sun at that moment came fully up, just like that, rushing … I stayed with him. I was there by the time the sun went down, and as he opened the door to his bacon- … buildings, and into an open field of short grass. The sun was well behind the mountains, but behind them the …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English
Set in Paris, an offbeat and sweet novel about family, loss and recovery, and the magic of memory. When Mira takes a trip to Paris with her nephew, Bernard, she …
the street names she’ll never remember later. The sun comes and goes. To ride a bike on these quiet streets …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 May 2024 English
A powerful debut about the lives of women and girls caught in the orbit of the military. Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military …
where a staircase descends to an outdoor pool. The sun is setting. Jill slips out of her dress and kicks … closed to avoid dust or to steal a nap before the sun came up. Brown, black, and green camouflage paint … the low tide revealed kelp that glinted in the sun. Wegener believed that Pangaea frag- mented, vast … and patient as steel. Clouds shifted over the sun, and a darkness surrounded the mother on her blanket …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 April 2024 English
Limited Verse is now universally recognized as a valuable case study in the short-lived literary arts of New English. The translated poems in this collection offer a fascinating portal to …
suggestion, summer, support, surprise, such, sudden, sun, sweet, swim, system, table, tail, take, talk, tall … suggestion, summer, support, surprise, such, sudden, sun, sweet, swim, system, table, tail, take, talk, tall … north lands, A sweet new flower lifts its yellow sun, And, like some power birthed as sadness’s son, … suggestion, summer, support, surprise, such, sudden, sun, sweet, swim, system, table, tail, take, talk, tall … Indifferent Shades We waited by water that winter day, The sun was white, as though God-embittered, And leaves did …
ELC: Environmental Law Centre · 23 April 2024 English
In the case of the Tobacco Act, the federal government is exercising its criminal law power to create legislation that addresses the public health concern of smoking, and it regulates …
Ticketed For Smoking In Metro Vancouver,” Vancouver Sun (27 May 2018), online: <https://vancouversun.com …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 23 April 2024 English
At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre …
raising of “special regiments,” and the Vancouver Sun reported that a full company of over 250 Japanese … the Canadians did not believe it.The Vancouver Sun reported survivors’ accounts of Inouye’s mistreat- …
BOU: Boulder Books · 20 April 2024 English
Marjorie Doyle grew up in a life of privilege in St. John’s, Newfoundland’s capital city. Her father, a middle-aged prosperous businessman, married Mary Foley, a young woman who had escaped …
rather than houses. If a meteorologist told me the sun did not appear there for 20 years, I would say, …