When They Hid The Fire

Author : Daniel French
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0822964252

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When They Hid the Fire by Daniel French Pdf

When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources. With its adoption occurring simultaneously with Progressivism and consumerism, electricity use was encouraged and seen as an integral part of improvement and modernity, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential—a newfound “basic right” of life in the United States.

Author : Daniel French
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981930

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When They Hid the Fire by Daniel French Pdf

When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources. With its adoption occurring simultaneously with Progressivism and consumerism, electricity use was encouraged and seen as an integral part of improvement and modernity, leading Americans to culturally construct electricity as unlimited and environmentally inconsequential—a newfound “basic right” of life in the United States.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : HARVARD:HXNWV2

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The Metaphysical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melanie Rae Thon
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781573662000

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As If Fire Could Hide Us by Melanie Rae Thon Pdf

"As If Fire Could Hide Us by Melanie Rae Thon is a work of fiction composed as a love song in three movements: Orelia, in hiding; The 7th Man; and The Bodies of Birds. Each movement explores the interconnectedness of humanity from a unique vantage point, using imaginative compassion and physical materiality to reveal how our bodies and our lives are forever bound, infinitely intertwined and interchangeable"--

Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : David Burrows
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780955676055

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Prophecy of the Kings - Book 1 by David Burrows Pdf

Vastra is a man possessed. Where other men require food to sustain them, his craving is for power. He seeks an Eldric talisman, ensnaring two men to aid him. Fate guides his hand and, unwittingly, he chooses Kaplyn, who is seeking to escape his own destiny and Lars, shipwrecked and friendless, an outcast on the Allund shore. An unlikely trio, they form a fragile alliance but, recklessly ambitious, Vastra will betray them in a heartbeat. Throughout their journey, there are clear signs that demons are active, stealing souls to slake their hunger. Their journey takes them to a mysterious tower, beset by traps, where Kaplyn triggers a chain of events unleashing the full power of a prophecy that could doom them all. Deep in the heart of a mountain lays a power that not even Vastra has the audacity to envision. But who really is guiding Vastra’s destiny? Kaplyn has the talisman and, for all of Vastra’s threats, he is unwilling to part with it.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382134884

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The apocrypha greek and english by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226450490

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Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean Pdf

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: “The terrifying story of the worst disaster in the history of the US Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers.” —Kirkus Reviews A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in this extraordinary book. Alongside Maclean’s now-canonical A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West. This edition of Maclean’s later triumph—the last book he would write—includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time. As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul. “A moving account of humanity, nature, and the perseverance of the human spirit.” —Library Journal “Haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal “Engrossing.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Kel McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1945820896

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Stars, Hide Your Fire by Kel McDonald Pdf

Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) dreams of escape. Everything's going according to plan until a chance encounter with an otherworldly spirit named Carmen changes everything! Carmen promises Andrea eternal life, but a mysterious young boy named Liam shows up claiming he had also made a deal with Carmen, and it didn't go well . . . 100 years ago. Liam must convince his new friends of Carmen's evil nature before Andrea is tricked into a supernatural bargain that will upend her new life before it even starts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1599
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0021769843

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The Bible: Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and Conferred with the Best Translations in Diuers Languages. With Most Profitable Annotations Vpon All the Hard Places, and Other Things of Great Importance, as May Appeare in the Epistle to the Reader. And Also a Most Profitable Concordance for the Readie Finding Out of Any Thing in the Same Conteined by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : NWU:35556034741587

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History of Chicago: From the fire of 1871 until 1885 by Alfred Theodore Andreas Pdf

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250144836

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Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Pdf

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
ISBN : NYPL:33433017068200

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The Holy Bible by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ken Davis
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310486610

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Fire Up Your Life by Ken Davis Pdf

Ken Davis shares vital, Bible-centered principles that have the power to transform one's life by finding joy and excitement in every aspect of life.