Tinder Box

Author : James Andrew Miller
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250623997

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Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession...HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York; with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun; and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse, Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices, this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. J.) to Zendaya, as well as every single living president of HBO—and hundreds of other major players. Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller reveals how fraught HBO’s journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, and, in doing so, reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447213710

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A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning, The Tinder Box is a novella from crime queen Minette Walters. In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O’Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nurse, Dorothy Jenkins. As shock turns to fury, the village residents form a united front against Patrick’s parents and cousin, who report incidents of vicious threats and violence. But friend and neighbour Siobhan Lavenham remains convinced that Patrick has fallen victim to a prejudiced investigation and, putting her own position within the bigoted community in serious jeopardy, stands firmly by his family in defence of the O’Riordan name. Days before the trial, terrible secrets about the O’Riordans’ past are revealed to Siobhan, and the family’s only supporter is forced to question her loyalties. Could Patrick be capable of murder after all? Could his parents’ tales of attacks be devious fabrications? And if so, what other lies lurk beneath the surface of their world? As the truth rapidly unfurls, it seems that Sowerbridge residents need to be very afraid. For beneath a cunning façade, someone’s chilling ambition is about to ignite . . .

Author : Robert W. Fieseler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491641

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Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.

Author : Craig Timberg,Daniel Halperin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101560617

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Tinderbox by Craig Timberg,Daniel Halperin Pdf

In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic studies have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried the virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. Western powers were key actors in turning a localized outbreak into a sprawling epidemic as bustling new trade routes, modern colonial cities, and the rise of prostitution sped the virus across Africa. Christian missionaries campaigned to suppress polygamy, but left in its place fractured sexual cultures that proved uncommonly vulnerable to HIV. Equally devastating was the gradual loss of the African ritual of male circumcision, which recent studies have shown offers significant protection against infection. Timberg and Halperin argue that the same Western hubris that marked the colonial era has hamstrung the effort to fight HIV. From the United Nations AIDS program to the Bush administration's historic relief campaign, global health officials have favored well-meaning Western approaches--abstinence campaigns, condom promotion, HIV testing--that have proven ineffective in slowing the epidemic in Africa. Meanwhile they have overlooked homegrown African initiatives aimed squarely at the behaviors spreading the virus. In a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, Tinderbox reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.

Author : Anthony P. Hatch
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897338028

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Tinder Box by Anthony P. Hatch Pdf

The Iroquois Theater in Chicago, boasting every modern convenience, advertised itself proudly as “absolutely fireproof” when it opened in November, 1903. Mr. Bluebeard, a fairy tale musical imported from the Drury Lane Theatre in London was the opening production. And leading the troupe of nearly 400 was one of the most popular comedians of the time, Eddie Foy. None of the many socialites and journalists who flocked to the shows were aware that city building inspectors and others had been bribed to certify that the theater was in good shape. In fact, the building was without a sprinkler system or even basic fire fighting equipment; there was no backstage telephone, fire alarm box, exit signs, a real asbestos curtain or ushers trained for emergencies. A month later, at a Christmas week matinee, the theater was illegally overcrowded with a standing room only crowd of mostly women and children. During the second act, a short circuit exploded a back stage spotlight touching off a small fire which spread in minutes throughout the theater. Panic set in as people clawed at each other to get out, but they could not find the exits, which were draped. The doorways, locked against gate-crashers, were designed to open in instead of out, creating almost impossible egress. The tragedy, which claimed more than 600 lives, became a massive scandal and it remains the worst theater fire in the history of the country.

Author : Maria Thompson Daviess
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664586018

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The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess Pdf

"The Tinder-Box" by Maria Thompson Daviess. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Anthony P. Hatch
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897338035

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Tinder Box by Anthony P. Hatch Pdf

The Iroquois Theater in Chicago, boasting every modern convenience, advertised itself proudly as “absolutely fireproof” when it opened in November, 1903. Mr. Bluebeard, a fairy tale musical imported from the Drury Lane Theatre in London was the opening production. And leading the troupe of nearly 400 was one of the most popular comedians of the time, Eddie Foy. None of the many socialites and journalists who flocked to the shows were aware that city building inspectors and others had been bribed to certify that the theater was in good shape. In fact, the building was without a sprinkler system or even basic fire fighting equipment; there was no backstage telephone, fire alarm box, exit signs, a real asbestos curtain or ushers trained for emergencies. A month later, at a Christmas week matinee, the theater was illegally overcrowded with a standing room only crowd of mostly women and children. During the second act, a short circuit exploded a back stage spotlight touching off a small fire which spread in minutes throughout the theater. Panic set in as people clawed at each other to get out, but they could not find the exits, which were draped. The doorways, locked against gate-crashers, were designed to open in instead of out, creating almost impossible egress. The tragedy, which claimed more than 600 lives, became a massive scandal and it remains the worst theater fire in the history of the country.

Author : Nathaniel J. Pallone,James J. Hennessy
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1412840074

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Tinder-Box Criminal Aggression by Nathaniel J. Pallone,James J. Hennessy Pdf

The authors refine, amplify, and extend the conceptual model for understanding tinder-box criminal aggression they first introduced in Criminal Behavior. This work integrates relative contributions made by such intrapersonal characteristics as the need for serial stimulation, impairment in foresight and planfulness, and the acquisition of a taste for risk on the one hand, with such factors as child-rearing practices, vicarious conditioning, sub-cultures of violence, and the availability of mood-altering chemical substances on the other hand

Author : Knight Ignis ARDENS (pseud.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017434514

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The Tinder Box, Being a Geological, Mineralogical, Metallurgical ... Essay. By Ignis Ardens, Knight by Knight Ignis ARDENS (pseud.) Pdf

Author : Serene Tales Beaty
Publisher : Serene Tales Beaty
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bedtime Story Book A long time ago lived as soldier. He was a young and charming man. One day, he was returning to his home from a war thankful to be alive.

Author : Kate Elliott
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250835406

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The Tinder Box by Kate Elliott Pdf

A reimagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s original fairytale, Kate Elliott's “The Tinder Box” tells the story of a witch at the heart of an incipient rebellion—and all of those to come. “One spark. Two sparks. Three. This is what it takes to ignite a revolution.” At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Charles Meymott Tidy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066209414

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The Story of a Tinder-box by Charles Meymott Tidy Pdf

"The Story of a Tinder-box, penned by Charles Meymott Tidy, delves into the fascinating history and significance of a seemingly ordinary object. Tidy's narrative skillfully weaves together historical anecdotes and insights, transforming the tinder-box into a symbol of innovation and societal progress. This book serves as a captivating exploration of the ordinary artifacts that shape our lives and collective memory."

Author : Sirtony
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300898085

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THE TINDER BOX CHRONICLES by Sirtony Pdf

Author : Rachel Grant
Publisher : Janus Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944571054

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Tinderbox by Rachel Grant Pdf

Author : Christopher Burchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692300376

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The Tinder Box by Christopher Burchfield Pdf

This second edition of "The Tinder Box," published in September 2014 by Seneca Books, provides readers with greater detail concerning events that occurred within the U.S. Forest Service from 1982 through 2008, and has a far more extensive Index. Since 1990 over 113,000,000 acres of America's timber lands have been consumed by wildfire, one of many disasters the U.S. Forest Service must be held accountable for. Over that same period the timber industry, companies engaged in making wood products, owners of properties adjacent forest lands, and the public at large have become incensed by the agency's ineptitude. To learn more read Christopher Burchfield's "The Tinder Box: How Politically Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S. Forest Service." The book goes back to the very beginning--33 years ago--when the agency set about destroying itself from within. Readers will finally grasp those terrible events inside the agency, all of which took place entirely outside of public purview. Indeed, this is the first inside look at how--step-by-step, political correctness destroyed an American institution.