Burning And Building

Author : Brian Platt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174010

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Burning and Building by Brian Platt Pdf

"Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb mounting social disorder and mobilize the Japanese people against the threat of Western imperialism. The sweeping tone of this revolutionary plan obscured the fact that the Japanese were already quite literate and had clear ideas about what a school should be. In the century preceding the Meiji restoration, commoners throughout Japan had established 50,000 schools with almost no guidance or support from the government. Consequently, the Ministry of Education’s new code of 1872 met with resistance, as local officials, teachers, and citizens sought compromises and pursued alternative educational visions. Their efforts ultimately led to the growth and consolidation of a new educational system, one with the imprint of local demands and expectations. This book traces the unfolding of this process in Nagano prefecture and explores how local people negotiated the formation of the new order in their own communities. "

Author : Vincent Dunn
Publisher : PennWell Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593702335

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Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition by Vincent Dunn Pdf

1. General collapse information 2. Terms of construction and building design 3. Building construction: firefighting problems and structural hazards 4. Masonry wall collapse 5. Collapse dangers of parapet walls 6. Wood floor collapse 7. Sloping peak roof collapse 8. Timber truss roof collapse 9. Flat roof collapse 10. Lightweight steel roof and floor collapse 11. Lightweight wood truss collapse 12. Ceiling collapse 13. Stairway collapse 14. Fire escape dangers 15. Wood-frame building collapse 16. Collapse hazards of buildings under construction 17. Collapse caused by master stream operations 18. Search-and-rescue at a building collapse 19. Safety precautions prior to collapse 20. Why the World Trade Center Towers collapsed 21. High-rise building collapse 22. Post-fire analysis 23. Early floor collapse EPILOGUE: Are architects, engineers, and code-writing officials friends of the firefighters?

Author : Howard Hill
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593702830

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Failure Point by Howard Hill Pdf

Describes building construction features and how to recognize collapse dangers for all types of buildings and construction methods. Includes : key elements that warn of imminent fire-induced collapse; how to prevent injuries to operating personnel; adapting risk/benefit techniques to manage firefighting personnel on the fireground; how building codes affect fire-induced building collapses.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583415874

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To Build a Fire by Jack London Pdf

Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Author : Ben F. Barnes,Lisa Dickey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114416204

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Barn Burning Barn Building by Ben F. Barnes,Lisa Dickey Pdf

How did the Democratic Party--party of JFK, LBJ, and civil rights--fall from glory? How did Texas become Bush territory? What do politicians on either side need to do today to get our country back on track? Ben Barnes has the answers. Barnes had a front-row seat through it all. He won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1960, at the age of 22, and four years later became the youngest Speaker of the House since the Civil War. In 1968, he helped Congressman George H. W. Bush get his son into the National Guard. How did his party lose its place in Texas, and the nation? Here, Barnes takes readers inside the rise and fall of the party he loves. He uses lessons learned in the Texas trenches as a guiding light for a new generation of lawmakers and political hopefuls, and calls for a return to bipartisan consensus building.--From publisher description.

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206

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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden Pdf

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307427007

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New York Burning by Jill Lepore Pdf

Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.

Author : Jeff Zwirek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Apartment dwellers
ISBN : OCLC:244103706

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Burning Building Comics by Jeff Zwirek Pdf

" ... Tells the stories of the buildings inhabitants as they fight, evade and panic over a fire that's consuming their home."--Publisher's website.

Author : Jeff Zwirek
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Apartment dwellers
ISBN : 0985875135

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Burning Building Comix by Jeff Zwirek Pdf

" ... Tells the stories of the buildings inhabitants as they fight, evade and panic over a fire that's consuming their home."--Publisher's website.

Author : Brian Platt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174010

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Burning and Building by Brian Platt Pdf

"Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb mounting social disorder and mobilize the Japanese people against the threat of Western imperialism. The sweeping tone of this revolutionary plan obscured the fact that the Japanese were already quite literate and had clear ideas about what a school should be. In the century preceding the Meiji restoration, commoners throughout Japan had established 50,000 schools with almost no guidance or support from the government. Consequently, the Ministry of Education’s new code of 1872 met with resistance, as local officials, teachers, and citizens sought compromises and pursued alternative educational visions. Their efforts ultimately led to the growth and consolidation of a new educational system, one with the imprint of local demands and expectations. This book traces the unfolding of this process in Nagano prefecture and explores how local people negotiated the formation of the new order in their own communities. "

Author : Larry Levine
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781636981758

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Selling from the Heart by Larry Levine Pdf

Sales have changed; gone are the days of manipulative and pushy salespeople who rely on charm to get sales. Selling From The Heart is built for the new economy where authentic relationships matter and out-dated techniques just don’t work any longer. Larry Levine understands the essential role of relationships when it comes to selling, how those genuine connections can fuel sales funnels and exceed sales goals. In Selling From the Heart, Larry coaches readers to build meaningful relationships in natural ways by discovering their authentic selves and offering that authentic perspective to clients. Sales professionals and entrepreneurs will find new levels of sales and personal fulfillment by Selling From the Heart.

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199322329

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Burning the Reichstag by Benjamin Carter Hett Pdf

Delving into the controversy surrounding the fire that burned down the Reichstag and ignited the Third Reich, this gripping account of Hitler's rise to dictatorship reopens the arson case, profiling key figures and making use of new sources and archives to reinvestigate one of the greatest mysteries of the Nazi period.

Author : Megha Majumdar
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771059841

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A Burning by Megha Majumdar Pdf

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! A New York Times Notable Book For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. In this National Book Award Longlist honoree and “gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary” (USA Today), Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely—an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor—has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear. Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut.

Author : Charles A. Harper
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780071433303

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Handbook of Building Materials for Fire Protection by Charles A. Harper Pdf

The first handbook devoted to the coverage of materials in the field of fire engineering. Fire Protection Building Materials Handbook walks you through the challenging maze of choosing form the hundreds of commercially available materials used in buildings today and tells you which burn and /or are weakened during exposure to fire. It is the burning characteristics of materials, which usually allow fires to begin and propagate, and the degradation of materials that cause the most damage. Providing expert guidance every step of the way, Fire Protection Building Materials Handbook helps the architect, designers and fire protection engineers to design and maintain safer buildings while complying with international codes.

Author : Samuel MACALL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Atheism
ISBN : BL:A0018954802

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The Logic of Atheism by Samuel MACALL Pdf