A Field On Fire

Author : James Webb
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788635196

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Fields of Fire by James Webb Pdf

James Webb’s classic, scorching novel of the Vietnam War. They each had their reasons for becoming a Marine. They each had their illusions. Goodrich came fresh from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo before he even got the uniform. Hodges was haunted by the spirits of family heroes. Three young men, from vastly different worlds, were plunged into a white-hot, murderous melting pot of jungle warfare in the An Hoa Basin, Vietnam, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them. For nothing could have prepared them for the madness of what they found. And in the heat and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and were reborn in fields of fire... Fields of Fire is a searing story of poetic power, razor-sharp observation, and non-stop combat, perfect for fans of Tim O’Brien, Karl Marlantes and Apocalypse Now. Praise for Fields of Fire ‘Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such a ring of steely truth’ The Houston Post ‘A novel of such fullness and impact, one is tempted to compare it to Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead’The Oregonian ‘Webb gives us an extraordinary range of acutely observed people, not one a stereotype ... Fields of Fire is a stunner’ Newsweek ‘Webb pulls off the scabs and looks directly, unflinchingly on the open wounds of the Sixties’ Philadelphia Inquirer ‘The unmistakable sound of truth’ Time

Author : Mark D. Hersey,Ted Steinberg
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780817320010

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A Field on Fire by Mark D. Hersey,Ted Steinberg Pdf

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer. Worster’s groundbreaking research serves as the organizational framework for the collection. Editors Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg have arranged the book into three sections corresponding to the primary concerns of Worster’s influential scholarship: the problem of natural limits, the transnational nature of environmental issues, and the question of method. Under the heading “Facing Limits,” five essays explore the inherent tensions between democracy, technology, capitalism, and the environment. The “Crossing Borders” section underscores the ways in which environmental history moves easily across national and disciplinary boundaries. Finally, “Doing Environmental History” invokes Worster’s work as an essayist by offering self-conscious reflections about the practice and purpose of environmental history. The essays aim to provoke a discussion on the future of the field, pointing to untapped and underdeveloped avenues ripe for further exploration. A forward thinker like Worster presents bold challenges to a new generation of environmental historians on everything from capitalism and the Anthropocene to war and wilderness. This engaging volume includes a very special afterword by one of Worster’s oldest friends, the eminent intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers, who has known Worster for close to fifty years.

Author : Marc Cameron
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786038930

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Field of Fire by Marc Cameron Pdf

An explosive Jericho Quinn thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Brute Force, Stone Cross, and Tom Clancy Code of Honor. The first target is Dallas, Texas. Then, Los Angeles. A deadly nerve gas called New Archangel has been unleashed, claiming innocent lives, spreading nationwide panic, and fueling global fears of yet another attack. In the icy reaches of rural Alaska, special agent Jericho Quinn is enlisted to hunt down the man who created the bioweapon—a brilliant Russian scientist who is trying to defect and hiding in the Alaskan wilderness. But time is running out. The scientist is beginning to lose his mind to dementia. If Quinn doesn’t find him before the Russians do, the entire western seaboard and beyond will feel the wrath of New Archangel—and darkness will fall upon the earth. Praise for the novels of Marc Cameron “Blistering reads . . . Cameron’s books are riveting page-turners.”—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A double-barreled blast of action, narrative, and impossible-to-fake authenticity with a great sense of place and a terrific protagonist.”—C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author “One of the hottest new authors in the thriller genre.”—Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Fascinating characters with action off-the-charts. Masterful.”—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author “Action-packed, over-the-top . . . Quinn makes a formidable warrior readers will want to see more of.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Philip Connors
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780062078902

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Fire Season by Philip Connors Pdf

“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.

Author : James O. Born
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425221830

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Field of Fire by James O. Born Pdf

Returning to his life in south Florida after his adventures in Bosnia, ATF agent Alex Duarte finds himself on the trail of a serial bomber, a case during which he teams up with a Department of Justice lawyer and realizes that he has enemies dangerously close to home. Reprint.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : FEMA
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Compressed Air Foam for Structural Fire Fighting: A Field Test; Boston, Massachusetts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : 0871594161

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Still on Fire by Jan Phillips Pdf

Still on Fire is a memoir of religious wounding and spiritual healing, of judgment and forgiveness, and of social activism in a world that is in our hands. Phillips traveled the globe on a one-woman peace pilgrimage, raised the consciousness of women, faced her privilege on a trip to India, and is working to dismantle structural racism.

Author : International Association of Arson Investigators,,Iaai
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449683023

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Fire Investigator Field Guide by International Association of Arson Investigators,,Iaai Pdf

Fire Investigator Field Guide, Second Edition is your direct link to the information you need to conduct thorough and accurate investigations. As a fire investigator, your job is to provide answers as to origin and cause. The Fire Investigator Field Guide, Second Edition will help you safely and systematically conduct your investigation and find these answers. This substantive resource features tables, charts, and other tools gathered from the most current and respected references available, including: o NFPA 170, Standard for Fire Safety and Emergency Symbols, 2009 Edition o NFPA 921, Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations, 2011 Edition o NFPA’s Fire Protection Handbook, Twentieth Edition o Society of Fire Protection Engineers Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Fourth Edition From pre-arrival activities to documentation and analysis, this essential guide has you covered through every phase of the investigation process!

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295805214

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Fire in America by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Author : Howard E. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fire prevention
ISBN : UCSD:31822040910523

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Railroad Fire Prevention Field Guide by Howard E. Moore Pdf

Author : Adrian John Pieters,Benjamin Ralph Stauber,Chalmers Jackson King,Charles Walter Collins,Fred Earl Keating,George Wright Hoffman,Hazel Katherine Stiebeling,Mary E. Sweeny,Robert Claude Wright,Walter Cochran Davis,Charlotte Chatfield,Harold Frederick Loomis,John Valentine Schaffner,Ruth Leah Morgan,Thomas Moore Whiteman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Beef cattle
ISBN : UIUC:30112038195233

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Agricultural Investigations at the United States Field Station, Sacaton, Ariz., 1925-1930 by Adrian John Pieters,Benjamin Ralph Stauber,Chalmers Jackson King,Charles Walter Collins,Fred Earl Keating,George Wright Hoffman,Hazel Katherine Stiebeling,Mary E. Sweeny,Robert Claude Wright,Walter Cochran Davis,Charlotte Chatfield,Harold Frederick Loomis,John Valentine Schaffner,Ruth Leah Morgan,Thomas Moore Whiteman Pdf

Author : Howard E. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electric lines
ISBN : UCR:31210025604552

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Power Line Fire Prevention Field Guide by Howard E. Moore Pdf

Author : Jacob F. Field
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351582759

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London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 by Jacob F. Field Pdf

The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England. The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.

Author : Barbara Field
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0822208997

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Playing with Fire (after Frankenstein) by Barbara Field Pdf

THE STORY: As the play begins, an exhausted and dying Victor Frankenstein has finally tracked down his Creature in the lonely, frozen tundra of the North Pole. Determined to right the wrong he has committed by, at last, destroying the malignant evil he be

Author : Amory Lovins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603583725

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Reinventing Fire by Amory Lovins Pdf

Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and affordable, for all, forever. That richer, fairer, cooler, safer world is possible, practical, even profitable-because saving and replacing fossil fuels now works better and costs no more than buying and burning them. Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well. Authored by a world leader on energy and innovation, the book maps a robust path for integrating real, here-and-now, comprehensive energy solutions in four industries-transportation, buildings, electricity, and manufacturing-melding radically efficient energy use with reliable, secure, renewable energy supplies.Popular in tone and rooted in applied hope, Reinventing Fire shows how smart businesses are creating a potent, global, market-driven, and explosively growing movement to defossilize fuels. It points readers to trillions in savings over the next 40 years, and trillions more in new business opportunities.Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, this major contribution by world leaders in energy innovation offers startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.Pragmatic citizens today are more interested in outcomes than motives. Reinventing Fire answers this trans-ideological call. Whether you care most about national security, or jobs and competitive advantage, or climate and environment, its startling innovations will support your values, inspire your support, and transform your sense of possibility.