L A Burning

Author : D. C. Taylor
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643857794

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L.A. Burning by D. C. Taylor Pdf

An ex-con hits the streets of L.A. to find her twin sister’s killer. Is it a mission of justice—or a quest for vengeance? Cody Bonner, identical twin, daughter of a major movie star, a teenage street kid in Los Angeles, a bank robber at nineteen, and a prison inmate at twenty. When she’s released after six years, she returns to L.A. with a purpose: to learn the truth about her sister Julie, who washed up on a Malibu beach a year earlier. The connection between the twins was so powerful that the day Julie died, Cody collapsed in the prison yard. Now that bond is driving her to seek justice—at any cost. Using bootleg skills she learned in prison, Cody begins to peel back the layers of mystery. Her search leads her to the darker alleys behind the dazzle of the film business, and into the world of high-powered agents, high-priced call girls, and men with a taste for sexual violence. As she homes in on her mother’s powerful agent, Harry Groban, a man with ugly accusations of abuse in his past, Cody becomes more deeply enmeshed in the life she left behind as a teenager: her mother’s star power, her former classmates-turned-producers, glitzy parties, and a handsome former love who knows all the players. Is Groban at the center? Could there be others who had a hand in Julie’s murder? As Cody gets closer to the truth, another ghost from her criminal past is stalking her—one that could put her back in prison for years.

Author : James D. Haywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Prescribed burning
ISBN : MINN:31951D02960963O

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Responses of Understory Vegetation on Highly Erosive Louisiana Soils to Prescribed Burning in May by James D. Haywood Pdf

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834491

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The Burning of Moscow by Alexander Mikaberidze Pdf

As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve peace with Russia. Then, in October, almost surrounded by the Russians and with winter fast approaching, he abandoned the capital and embarked on the long, bitter retreat that destroyed his army. The month-long stay in Moscow was a pivotal moment in the war of 1812 the moment when the initiative swung towards the Tsar's armies and spelled doom for the invading Grand Army yet it has rarely been studied in the same depth as the other key events of the campaign.Alexander Mikaberidze, in this third volume of his in-depth reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires, emphasizes the importance of the Moscow fire and shows how Russian intransigence sealed the fate of the French army. He uses a vast array of French, German, Polish and Russian memoirs, letters and diaries as well as archival material in order to tell the dramatic story of the Moscow fire. Not only does he provide a comprehensive account of events, looking at them from both the French and Russian points of view, but he explores the Russians' motives for leaving, then burning their capital. Using extensive eyewitness accounts, he paints a vivid picture of the harsh reality of life in the remains of the occupied city and describes military operations around Moscow at this turning point in the campaign.

Author : Haig A. Bosmajian
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786422081

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Burning Books by Haig A. Bosmajian Pdf

"This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. The book burners are identified, along with the works they deliberately set aflame"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mike Davis,Jon Wiener
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839761225

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Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis,Jon Wiener Pdf

Los Angeles Times Bestseller This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). “Authoritative and impressive.” —Los Angeles Times “Monumental.” —Guardian Los Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Power—where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis’s award-winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Prescribed burning
ISBN : MINN:31951D02889639J

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Effects of Prescribed Burning and Cattle Grazing on Deer Diets in Louisiana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Loblolly pine
ISBN : WISC:89017969882

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Seasonal Biennial Burning and Woody Plant Control Influence Native Vegetation in Loblolly Pine Stands by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven T. Jones
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert Is Shaping the New American Counterculture by Steven T. Jones Pdf

Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives. Longtime newspaper journalist Steven T. Jones embedded himself in this blossoming culture starting in 2004, a dispiriting year for American politics but the beginning of Burning Man’s renaissance, when it exploded outward in unexpected ways. The result is the most in-depth book ever written on this intriguing social phenomenon – The Tribes of Burning Man: How An Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture – which is being released in January, 2011 by CCC Publishing. From covering the Borg2 artists’ rebellion to learning how to make large-scale fire sculptures with the Flaming Lotus Girls, from helping Opulent Temple showcase the world’s best DJs to cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina with Burners Without Borders, from regularly interviewing event founder Larry Harvey to covering Barack Obama’s nominating convention speech, Jones gives readers an inside, meticulously reported look at a time when Burning Man hit its zenith just as the country hit its nadir. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have made the dusty pilgrimage to Black Rock City to take part in this experiment in participatory art, commerce-free culture, and bacchanalian celebration—and many say their lives were fundamentally changed by this truly unique experience.

Author : Anthony A. Barrett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691172316

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Rome Is Burning by Anthony A. Barrett Pdf

"Nero became Emperor in A.D 54. On the evening of July 18, 64 A. D., it seems that a lamp was left unextinguished in a stall still heaped with piles of combustible material. Whether this was accidental or deliberate we cannot now determine, and normally it would not have led to anything that would have attracted even local attention. But there was a gusty wind that night, and the flickering flame was fanned onto the flammable wares. The ensuing fire quickly spread. Before the onlookers could absorb what was happening one of the most catastrophic disasters ever to be endured by Rome was already underway. It was a disaster that brought death and misery to thousands. In Nero and the Great Fire of Rome, Anthony Barrett draws on new textual interpretations and the latest archaeological evidence, to tell the story of this pivotal moment in Rome's history and its lasting significance. Barrett argues that the Great Fire, which destroyed much of the city, changed the course of Roman History. The fire led to the collapse of Nero's regime, and his disorderly exit brought an end to Rome's first imperial dynasty, transforming from thereto, the way that emperors were selected. It also led to the first systematic persecution of the Christians, who were blamed for the blaze. Barrett provides the first comprehensive study of this dramatic event, which remains a fascination of the public imagination, and continues to be a persistent theme in the art and literature of popular culture today"--

Author : Nikki Shepardson
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0934223874

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Burning Zeal by Nikki Shepardson Pdf

In the chaos of the Reformation, a declaration of one's faith was not solely a religious matter, but at times a choice between life and death. Sixteenth-century Europe witnessed a renaissance of martyrdom and the rebirth of a specific rhetoric that celebrated the sacrifice, constancy, and conviction of the martyr. This rhetoric shaped and defined the experiences and worldview of the French Calvinist community.

Author : Camille Saint-Saëns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Operas
ISBN : HARVARD:32044040761090

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Samson Et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns Pdf

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780888648204

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Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book by Lawrence Hill Pdf

Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever justified? Hill illustrates his ideas with anecdotes and lists names of Canadian writers who faced censorship challenges in the twenty-first century, inviting conversation between those on opposite sides of these contentious issues. All who are interested in literature, freedom of expression, and human rights will enjoy reading Hill's provocative essay.

Author : United States. Steamboat-Inspection Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Inland navigation
ISBN : OSU:32435066692856

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Rivers by United States. Steamboat-Inspection Service Pdf

Author : James A. Benn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824861735

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Burning for the Buddha by James A. Benn Pdf

Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.

Author : Merv Fingas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429014123

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In-Situ Burning for Oil Spill Countermeasures by Merv Fingas Pdf

Shelving Guide: Environmental Engineering In-situ burning is recognized as a viable alternative for cleaning up oil spills on land and water. It can rapidly reduce the volume of spilled oil and eliminate the need to collect, store, transport, and dispose of recovered oil, and can also shorten the response time to a spill, thus reducing the chances that the spill will spread on the water surface or further into land. This book will serve as a comprehensive reference for all aspects of in-situ burning of oil spills and include the scientific aspects of the burning process and the related effects, as well as practical information about the procedures to be followed and equipment required for carrying out an in-situ burn. Features Serves as a complete source of information on in-situ burning as well as practical guide on how to implement the procedures. Explains procedures for burning in different situations, including on water, land, and ice. Provides information on worker health and safety precautions during burning. Covers several different types of emissions, their environmental fate, and how to monitor them. Includes numerous illustrative case studies.