Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or …

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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, …

materials. We were talking about working with tamarack wood if we ever get to do an interior. Henry says, “if


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 …

message. With still enough outdoor light and the wood-slat Venetian blinds down, no one would see me first, I thought I smelled bacon, but it was just wood smoke, not the fresh kind thrown off by a merry Alberta buffalo licenses. They have to, they’re in Wood Buffalo Park, it’s a government-run place.” As we that look. You saw it that time we were all out at Wood Buffalo, and you asked him why he was so much more


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 …

head inside it. “Slightly damp, slightly stale wood.” She thinks, he must have hung his own shirts in


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 …

exterior. As they walk through a winding hallway of wood-panelled walls and terracotta tile floors, Elena the marina smelled of moss and mould and damp wood, and Ellie wished she could learn to manoeuvre might blend into the grain of the manufac- tured wood floor beneath her. After they left, she wiped the


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 …

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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 …

three or four months, they managed to move into a wood frame cabin. The Inouyes would spend three years


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 19 April 2024 English

“The multiplicity of perspectives and voices represented in this collection draws attention to core contradictions associated with Canadian identity. Interconnected themes and analytical frames enrich the work, offering unique ways …

conceptual clarity or prone to theoretical imprecision (Wood & Gilbert, 2005)—a situation that, paradoxically world by U.S. News and World Report. Colin Singer. Wood, P. K., & Gilbert, L. (2005). Multiculturalism in


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 17 April 2024 English

All names and claims expressed in this book of abstracts are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated …

Link Senior Scientist for Ecosystem Management, NOAA-NMFS, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Approach to Fishery Management 1 1 2 Geret DePiper , Sarah Gaichas , and Brandon Muffley 1 Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods , Mark Dickey-Collas , and Alida 7 Bundy 1 IBSS Corp. in Support of NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods E-mail: janne.haugen@noaa.gov 2 NOAA Fisheries Office of the Assistant Administrator, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. 3 CSIRO 2 Rhode Island Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA. 3 NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 12 April 2024 English

"The Honourable John Norquay is a magnificent book. Friesen meticulously documents Norquay's many accomplishments, larger-than-life character, and charisma. He paints a picture of a negotiator and orator who ably uses …

river on the east bank that supplied the farm with wood for fuel, fencing, and lumber. The land transactions were respectable. The main rooms were heated by wood stoves. In the winter a servant lit fires in the


First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada · 12 April 2024 English

For group products, services, and supports, urgent requests must be evaluated and determined within 2 days and non-urgent requests within 7 days; 6) The number of requests ready for assessment …

infant requires a ‘crib’, expensive, custom made, wood A: Not a cost containment however doesn’t indicate


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