Escaping The Fire

Author : Tomás Guzaro,Terri Jacob McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292779204

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Escaping the Fire by Tomás Guzaro,Terri Jacob McComb Pdf

A Mayan evangelical pastor recounts his harrowing experience before and during the Guatemalan Civil War and the heroic action that saved hundreds of lives. During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, Tomás Guzaro, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This exodus was one of the factors that caused the guerrillas to lose their grip on the Ixil, thus hastening the return of peace to the area. In Escaping the Fire, Guzaro relates the hardships common to most Mayas and the resulting unrest that opened the door to civil war. He details the Guatemalan army’s atrocities while also describing the Guerrilla Army of the Poor’s rise to power in Ixil country, which resulted in limited religious freedom, murdered church leaders, and threatened congregations. His story climaxes with the harrowing vision that induced him to guide his people out of their war-torn homeland. Guzaro also provides an intimate look at his spiritual pilgrimage through all three of Guatemala's main religions. The son of a Mayan priest, formerly a leader in the Catholic Church, and finally a convert to Protestantism, Guzaro, in detailing his religious life, offers insight into the widespread shift toward Protestantism in Latin America over the past four decades.

Author : Emma Bland Smith
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781532135668

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Book 1: Escaping the Fire by Emma Bland Smith Pdf

It's the last week of summer vacation. Gavin McNally's parents announce the family is taking the following year off to travel the country in an RV! One night in a California campground, Gavin sees a red glow in the distance. Fire! The McNallys must make quick decisions to get to safety. Just as they think they're in the clear, they find an abandoned dog. Do they have time to rescue her and still escape the fire? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Author : Tomás Guzaro,Terri Jacob McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292722842

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Escaping the Fire by Tomás Guzaro,Terri Jacob McComb Pdf

During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, Tomás Guzaro, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This exodus was one of the factors that caused the guerrillas to lose their grip on the Ixil, thus hastening the return of peace to the area. In Escaping the Fire, Guzaro relates the hardships common to most Mayas and the resulting unrest that opened the door to civil war. He details the Guatemalan army's atrocities while also describing the Guerrilla Army of the Poor's rise to power in Ixil country, which resulted in limited religious freedom, murdered church leaders, and threatened congregations. His story climaxes with the harrowing vision that induced him to guide his people out of their war-torn homeland. Guzaro also provides an intimate look at his spiritual pilgrimage through all three of Guatemala's main religions. The son of a Mayan priest, formerly a leader in the Catholic Church, and finally a convert to Protestantism, Guzaro, in detailing his religious life, offers insight into the widespread shift toward Protestantism in Latin America over the past four decades. Riveting and highly personal, Escaping the Fire ultimately provides a counterpoint to the usual interpretation of indigenous agency during the Guatemalan civil war by documenting the little-studied experiences of Protestants living in guerrilla-held territory.

Author : Donald M. Berwick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118040881

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Escape Fire by Donald M. Berwick Pdf

Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources—a girls' soccer team, a sinking ship, and the safety standards at NASA. Escape Fire takes its title from the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy in which thirteen young firefighters were trapped in a wildfire on a Montana hillside. The firefighter's leader, Wag Dodge, devised a creative solution for avoiding the encroaching fire. He burned a patch of grass and lay down in the middle of the scorched earth. His team refused to join him, and most perished in the fire. Dodge survived. Berwick applies the lessons learned from the catastrophe to our ailing health care system—we must not let ingrained processes obstruct life-saving innovation. Not content to simply define the problems with our flawed system, Berwick outlines new designs and suggests practical tools for change: name the problem, build on success, take leaps of faith, look outside of the medical field, set aims, understand systems, make action lists, and—the most fundamental of all—never lose sight of the patient as the central figure.

Author : Vivian Gornick
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466819009

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Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick Pdf

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre.

Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481445535

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Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret Pdf

When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami? The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He’d never flown before, and he’s never seen the Pacific Ocean. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. Then the earthquake comes—starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. Giant tsunami waves—three or four stories high—can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature’s fury and save themselves from tsunami terror.

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307522962

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Escape from Fire Mountain by Gary Paulsen Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims.

Author : Tui T. Sutherland
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545685467

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Escaping Peril (Wings of Fire #8) by Tui T. Sutherland Pdf

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle -- or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying -- and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things. She can't escape her firescales, and she can't escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia.So when she's offered a chance to trade everything for a new life, Peril has to decide who she's really loyal to . . . and whether her own scales might actually be worth saving.

Author : Louis Fidge
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405060964

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Escape from the Fire by Louis Fidge Pdf

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1405060182

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Young Explorers by Richard Brown Pdf

Author : M. J. Billington,Alex Copping,Anthony Ferguson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781405172783

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Means of Escape from Fire by M. J. Billington,Alex Copping,Anthony Ferguson Pdf

The provision of an adequate means of escape from fire is fundamental to the design of new buildings and to the alteration, change of use or extension of existing buildings. It is essential that means of escape are considered at the earliest stage of a project as mistakes are very expensive to correct later in the design. There is a great deal of legislation on means of escape design and control, but this is scattered throughout a large number of statutes, regulations and guidance documents. Many buildings need to be licensed and/or registered, as well as requiring certification and Building Regulation compliance. This book provides an invaluable reference on the subject for architects, surveyors and building control officers. It: ? identifies the legislation which applies to any particular building use ? describes the general principles of designing means of escape, together with a ten step approach for a range of residential and non-residential buildings ? considers alternative design options based on fire safety engineering ? outlines fire safety management in premises in use as an aid to employers, who have a statutory duty to undertake fire risk assessments.

Author : Doris Sanford
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0880705205

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Help! Fire! by Doris Sanford Pdf

A young boy whose legs have been surgically removed is caught at home alone when a fire breaks out in his house.

Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514003343

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When Everything's on Fire by Brian Zahnd Pdf

Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Intellectual certainty has long been a cornerstone of the Christian faith. But in an age of secularism, skepticism, and cynicism, our worldviews have been shaken. Various solutions exist—some double down on certainty, while others deconstruct their faith until there is nothing left at all. But Brian Zahnd offers a third way: what is needed is not a demolition but instead a renovation of faith. Written with personal and pastoral experience, Zahnd extends an invitation to move beyond the crisis of faith toward the journey of reconstruction. As the world rapidly changes in ways that feel incompatible with Christianity, When Everything's on Fire provides much-needed hope. A stronger, more confident faith is possible when it is grounded in the beauty and truth of Christ. Zahnd permits us to risk the journey of deconstruction so that God can forge something more beautiful in its place.

Author : Erin Callahan
Publisher : Amberjack Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781944995669

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The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Mattie has a hidden obsession: escapology. Emphasis on hidden. If anyone from school finds out, she’ll be abandoned to her haters. Facing a long and lonely summer, Mattie finally seeks out Miyu, the reclusive daughter of a world-renowned escape artist. Following in Houdini’s footsteps, Miyu helps Mattie secretly transform herself into an escapologist and performance artist. When Will, a popular athlete from school, discovers Mattie’s act at an underground venue, Mattie fears her secret persona will be exposed. Instead of outing her, though, Will tells Mattie a secret not even his girlfriend knows. Through a blossoming friendship, the two must find a way to express their authentic selves. Told through the perspectives of the witty main characters, this funny and fresh debut explores the power of stage personas and secret spaces, and speaks to the uncanny ways in which friendships transform us.

Author : Todd Overgard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0578533030

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Escaping the Flames by Todd Overgard Pdf

"Todd Overgard was 21 in 1972 when the DC9 jet that he had just boarded was rolling down a fog shrouded runway toward its 160 mph takeoff speed. Suddenly, the pilots saw a plane dead ahead and attempted to fly over it, but the collision was unavoidable. Todd's plane crashed back down to the runway, skidded on its fuselage, an burned profusely. With flames inside and outside the plane, Todd scrambled to escape. Escaping the Flames is the stunning story of a narrow escape from death, the trauma that such disaster brings in its aftermath, and the very unusual events that occurred both before and after the crash."--Back cover.