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Burning Paradise

Robert Charles Wilson
Burning Paradise Book PDF

Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466800762

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From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness. Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed. Cassie's parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding. Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic has worked. Until now. Because the killers are back. And they're not human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Dani Anguiano,Alastair Gee
Fire in Paradise An American Tragedy Book PDF

Author : Dani Anguiano,Alastair Gee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781324005155

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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Dani Anguiano,Alastair Gee Pdf

The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.

Burning in Paradise

Michael Madsen
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Author : Michael Madsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021448944

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Actor/writer Michael Madsen's poetry explores the intense and gritty experiences of a man living life on the edge and chronicles episodes of loneliness, infidelity, depression, drugs, and sex.

Paradise

Lizzie Johnson
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Author : Lizzie Johnson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593136409

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The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. “A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric’s decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.

Kung Fu Cult Masters

Leon Hunt
Kung Fu Cult Masters Book PDF

Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364639

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Chinese Martial Arts films have captured audiences' imaginations around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Hunt looks at the mythic allure of the Shaolin Temple, the 'Clones' of Bruce Lee, gender-bending swordswomen, and the knockabout comedy of Sammo Hung, bringing new insights to a hugely popular and yet critically neglected genre. 12 photos.

Burning All Illusions

David Edwards
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Author : David Edwards
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0896085317

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This is a book about freedom. Above all about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained. What prison, after all, could be more secure than that deemed to be "the world," where boundaries of action and thought are assumed to define not the limits of the permissible, but the limits of the possible. In the past we have been prisoners of tyrants and dictators, and consequently have needed to win our freedom in very concrete, physical terms. We now need to free ourselves not from a slave ship or a concentration camp, but from many of the illusions fostered in our democratic society. "[A] wise and acute analysis of the way our minds are controlled, not in a totalitarian state, but in a 'democratic' one. Edwards also suggests how we can escape this control in a self-help book which, unlike other books of this genre, connects our inner world of alienation with the world outside."--Howard Zinn "[A] treatise on what freedom truly means.... Burning All Illusions is an important philosophical and psychology text that should be on every political science curriculum reading list!"--Wisconsin Book Watch

Birds of Paradise

Anne Malcom
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Author : Anne Malcom
Publisher : Anne Malcom
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781386117636

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He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.

Goodnight Paradise

Joshua Dysart
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Author : Joshua Dysart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781952203374

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Goodnight Paradise by Joshua Dysart Pdf

TKO Studios presents "Goodnight Paradise" by Eisner-nominated writer Joshua Dysart (UNKNOWN SOLDIER, B.P.R.D.) From the Eisner Award nominated creators Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli comes a searing murder mystery. Unlikely homeless hero Eddie investigates the brutal murder of a runaway teenage girl. But can he alone bring her killer, or killers, to justice?

California Burning

Katherine Blunt
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Author : Katherine Blunt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593330661

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A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise – and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. Beginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base, from innovators who built some of California's first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp., an unyielding push for renewable energy, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. California Burning is a deeply reported, character-driven narrative, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable, with potentially fatal consequences.

Burnout Paradise

David S. J. Hodgson
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Author : David S. J. Hodgson
Publisher : Prima Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 0761555803

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•Learn how to access the complete car collection, including the fabled gold and platinum cars! •Every single shortcut, off-road area, and secret playground shown! •Meticulously detailed tour of Burnout™ Paradise, showing every smash, billboard, and super jump! •Dominate online with killer tactics on all 350 Freeburn Challenges! •All 60 PLAYSTATION® 3 Awards and 50 Achievements revealed!

Stay

John Clute
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Author : John Clute
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473219816

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Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour. Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

The Cinema of Tsui Hark

Lisa Morton
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Author : Lisa Morton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786451521

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The Cinema of Tsui Hark by Lisa Morton Pdf

Tsui Hark, one of China’s most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a biography of the man and a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions. Each major film of his career is then reviewed, production details are provided, and comments from Tsui Hark himself are given.

The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977Ð1997

John Charles
The Hong Kong Filmography 1977 1997 Book PDF

Author : John Charles
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476602622

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The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977Ð1997 by John Charles Pdf

Thanks to the successes of directors and actors like John Woo, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat, the cinema of Hong Kong is wildly popular worldwide, and there is much more to this diverse film culture than most Western audiences realize. Beyond martial arts and comedy, Hong Kong films are a celebration of the grand diversity and pageantry of moviemaking—covering action, comedy, horror, eroticism, mythology, historical drama, modern romances, and experimental films. Information on 1,100 films produced in British Hong Kong from 1977 to 1997 is included here.

Bright Burning Stars

A.K. Small
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Author : A.K. Small
Publisher : Algonquin Young Readers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781616209315

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Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they’ve formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year, Marine and Kate begin to ask themselves what they would do to win the ultimate prize: to be the one girl selected to join the Opera’s prestigious corps de ballet. Would they die? Cheat? Seduce the most talented boy in the school, dubbed the Demigod, hoping his magic would make them shine, too? Neither girl is sure. But then Kate gets closer to the Demigod, even as Marine has begun to capture his heart. And as selection day draws near, the competition—for the prize, for the Demigod—becomes fiercer, and Marine and Kate realize they have everything to lose, including each other. In Bright Burning Stars, debut author A. K. Small pens a stunning, propulsive story about girls at their physical and emotional extremes, the gutting power of first love, and what it means to fight for your dreams.

Burning the Books

Richard Ovenden
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Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206

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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.