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Author : Oliver C. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258829797
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : Oliver C. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494114143
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : Oliver Coligny de Champfleur Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Fire
ISBN : LCCN:32017248
Author : Janet McNaughton
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443139014
A touching "riches to rags" story set during the second-worst disaster in the history of Atlantic Canada. Eleven-year-old Triffie is the middle daughter of a well-to-do merchant. Triffie knows nothing about what it means to be poor — until the disastrous fire of 1892 burns down most of St. John's, Newfoundland, leaving Triffie's family and 15,000 others homeless. The fire claimed everything but their underwear, Mother's best china . . . and Triffie's journal. With no other options, Triffie's family moves into a filthy warehouse while they attempt to rebuild their lives from the ground up. The aftermath of the fire teaches Triffie a lot about what it means to survive. More importantly, she comes face to face with her own prejudices, and begins to develop a much greater appreciation for how the less fortunate live.
Author : George Cromwell
Publisher : Winepress Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1606150405
Flames of Fire demonstrates the power of the Holy Spirit's anointing in a Christian life. It focuses attention on God's ministers as Flames of Fire. The experiences chronicled in Flames of Fire help pastors, teachers, evangelists, prophets, apostles, and laypersons mature in their Christian walk. It focuses attention on what Christians can do with the anointing of the Holy Spirit when they submit to the will of God. Flames of Fire focuses on the proven power of the Holy Spirit and His work in an anointed life. It touches on Spiritual warfare and the practical response of Christians. Using Biblical characters and his own life experiences, George T. Cromwell discusses the raw power in the anointing that Jesus gives to those who are born-again, the members of the body of Christ.
Author : Gregory Simon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520292796
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in terms of structures lost—in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development within areas historically prone to fire. Simon skillfully blends techniques from environmental history, political ecology, and science studies to closely examine the Tunnel Fire within a broader historical and spatial context of regional economic development and natural-resource management, such as the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees as an exotic lure for homeowners and the creation of hillside neighborhoods for tax revenue—decisions that produced communities with increased vulnerability to fire. Simon demonstrates how in Oakland a drive for affluence led to a state of vulnerability for rich and poor alike that has only been exacerbated by the rebuilding of neighborhoods after the fire. Despite these troubling trends, Flame and Fortune in the American West illustrates how many popular and scientific debates on fire limit the scope and efficacy of policy responses. These risky yet profitable developments (what the author refers to as the Incendiary), as well as proposed strategies for challenging them, are discussed in the context of urbanizing areas around the American West and hold global applicability within hazard-prone areas.
Author : Oivind Berg
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1780979916
With this fireside companion, you can chop wood, send sparks flying, and plan a feast . . . all from the comfort of your armchair When early humans learned how to control fire, they changed the course of evolution. In this beautifully illustrated book, ivind Berg traces the use of fire as a heat source, a means of preparing food, and a social gathering point, both indoors and out. He explains how to kindle a fire, the characteristics of different woods as fuel, and how to cook over a fire, Norwegian style. It's the perfect book for anyone who embraces the popular Danish concept of hygge.
Author : Nigel Tranter
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444740219
It was the outstanding beauty of his sister Janet with her flame-red hair which was to bring David Kennedy of Carrick to the attention of Scotland's romantic and personable monarch, James IV. But whatever its cause, the association between the King and David Kennedy was to prove highly beneficial to Scotland in the troubled years ahead, when Henry VIII and the English Tudors sought to style themselves suzerains, or Lords Paramount, of the Northern Kingdom.
Author : Supriya Kelkar
Publisher : Tu Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1643790404
In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in--and certain death on her husband's funeral pyre--only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British colonizers spreads, she must choose between relative safety in a British household or standing up for herself and her people. India, 1857 Meera's future has been planned for her for as long as she can remember. As a child, her parents married her to a boy from a neighboring village whom she barely knows. Later, on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, she prepares to leave her family to live with her husband's--just as her strict religion dictates. But that night, Indian soldiers mutiny against their British commanders and destroy the British ammunition depot, burning down parts of Delhi. Riots follow, and Meera's husband is killed. Upon hearing the news, Meera's father insists that she follow the dictates of their fringe religious sect: She must end her life by throwing herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Risking everything, Meera runs away, escaping into the chaos of the rebellion. But her newfound freedom is short-lived, as she is forced to become a servant in the house of a high-ranking British East India Company captain. Slowly through her work, she gains confidence, new friends, new skills--and sometimes her life even feels peaceful. But one day, Meera stumbles upon the captain's secret stock of ammunition, destined to be used by the British to continue colonizing India and control its citizens. Will Meera do her part to take down the British colonists and alert the rebellion of the stockpile? Or will she stay safe and let others make decisions for her? It really comes down to this: how much fire must a girl face to finally write her own destiny?
Author : Joseph Goodman
Publisher : Author House
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781481713207
Have you ever felt like your flame has went out? Like your willpower and zeal for life has all but been quenched? This book documents the struggles of the author, a paranoid schizophrenic, and how God helped introduce him to a love he had never known when it was needed the most.
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295805214
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 : Robert M. Hazen,Margaret Hindle Hazen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400862993
"For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest lapse of attention could convert a fire from friendly ally to ravaging destroyer. To examine the cultural context of fire in "combustible America," Margaret Hazen and Robert Hazen gather more than a hundred illustrations, most never before published, together with anecdotes and information from hundreds of original sources, including newspapers, diaries, company records, popular fiction, art, and music. What results is an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic history that ranges from stories of the tragic "great fires" of the century to fire imagery in folktales and popular literature. Dealing more with technology than with fire in nature, the book provides a vast amount of information on fire manipulation and prevention in urban life. Hazen and Hazen discuss the people who worked with fire--or against it. Founders, gaffers, blacksmiths, boilers at saltworks, and housewives knew how to "read" a fire and employ it for their purposes. A few dedicated investigators inquired about the scientific nature of heat and flame. And firefighters gradually progressed from "bucket brigades" to "using fire to fight fire" with the newly invented steam engine. The colorful stories of these Americans--the risks they took and the rewards they received--will fascinate not only social historians but also a broad audience of general readers. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226450490
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: “The terrifying story of the worst disaster in the history of the US Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul. “A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit.” —Library Journal “Haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal “Engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295746197
Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne—named by Science magazine as “the world’s leading authority on the history of fire”—explores the surprising dynamics of fire before humans, fire and human origins, aboriginal economies of hunting and foraging, agricultural and pastoral uses of fire, fire ceremonies, fire as an idea and a technology, and industrial fire. In this revised and expanded edition, Pyne looks to the future of fire as a constant, defining presence on Earth. A new chapter explores the importance of fire in the twenty-first century, with special attention to its role in the Anthropocene, or what he posits might equally be called the Pyrocene.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037019150