A Field on Fire

A Field on Fire
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780817320010
ISBN-13 : 0817320016
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis A Field on Fire by : Mark D. Hersey

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer. Worster’s groundbreaking research serves as the organizational framework for the collection. Editors Mark D. Hersey and Ted Steinberg have arranged the book into three sections corresponding to the primary concerns of Worster’s influential scholarship: the problem of natural limits, the transnational nature of environmental issues, and the question of method. Under the heading “Facing Limits,” five essays explore the inherent tensions between democracy, technology, capitalism, and the environment. The “Crossing Borders” section underscores the ways in which environmental history moves easily across national and disciplinary boundaries. Finally, “Doing Environmental History” invokes Worster’s work as an essayist by offering self-conscious reflections about the practice and purpose of environmental history. The essays aim to provoke a discussion on the future of the field, pointing to untapped and underdeveloped avenues ripe for further exploration. A forward thinker like Worster presents bold challenges to a new generation of environmental historians on everything from capitalism and the Anthropocene to war and wilderness. This engaging volume includes a very special afterword by one of Worster’s oldest friends, the eminent intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers, who has known Worster for close to fifty years.

Fire Season

Fire Season
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780062078902
ISBN-13 : 0062078909
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Fire Season by : Philip Connors

“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.

Field of Fire

Field of Fire
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Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780786038930
ISBN-13 : 0786038934
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Field of Fire by : Marc Cameron

An explosive Jericho Quinn thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Brute Force, Stone Cross, and Tom Clancy Code of Honor. The first target is Dallas, Texas. Then, Los Angeles. A deadly nerve gas called New Archangel has been unleashed, claiming innocent lives, spreading nationwide panic, and fueling global fears of yet another attack. In the icy reaches of rural Alaska, special agent Jericho Quinn is enlisted to hunt down the man who created the bioweapon—a brilliant Russian scientist who is trying to defect and hiding in the Alaskan wilderness. But time is running out. The scientist is beginning to lose his mind to dementia. If Quinn doesn’t find him before the Russians do, the entire western seaboard and beyond will feel the wrath of New Archangel—and darkness will fall upon the earth. Praise for the novels of Marc Cameron “Blistering reads . . . Cameron’s books are riveting page-turners.”—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A double-barreled blast of action, narrative, and impossible-to-fake authenticity with a great sense of place and a terrific protagonist.”—C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author “One of the hottest new authors in the thriller genre.”—Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Fascinating characters with action off-the-charts. Masterful.”—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author “Action-packed, over-the-top . . . Quinn makes a formidable warrior readers will want to see more of.” —Publishers Weekly

Fire in America

Fire in America
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 681
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ISBN-10 : 9780295805214
ISBN-13 : 0295805218
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Fire in America by : Stephen J. Pyne

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Fire in the Field and Other Stories

Fire in the Field and Other Stories
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Publisher : Golden Antelope Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 1952232562
ISBN-13 : 9781952232565
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Fire in the Field and Other Stories by : John Young

In sixteen apparently simple stories, John Young's memorable characters ask (or refuse to ask) what shapes us. Education? Talent? Impulse? Family? Money? Need for approval? Most of the stories are set in small-town Indiana, with a handful coming from New England villages. All are sensitively written, careful, and real. The impulse to cheat (embellish) shows up early in the collection, as an antique dealer teaches himself to craft high-quality fakes. It reaches a fever pitch and crashes in the next tale, when an ambitious minister in an affluent community pays more attention to his neighbor's wife and pumpkins than to the living he's inherited. Young's protagonists range from observant nine-year-olds to hyper-competitive teens, from working class dreamers (and drinkers) to privileged executives defending the compromises they've made. A few face public humiliation; a few others die. In two of the strongest stories, young women face painful life-and-death decisions, and the conclusions are uncertain. In most, there's an ethical dilemma, skillfully and subtly plotted so that we readers come away energized, appreciating "the oxymorons of life."

Fire in the Valley

Fire in the Valley
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Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Total Pages : 602
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ISBN-10 : 9781680503524
ISBN-13 : 1680503529
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Fire in the Valley by : Michael Swaine

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.

Fields of Fire

Fields of Fire
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Publisher : 47North
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1503940713
ISBN-13 : 9781503940710
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Fields of Fire by : Marko Kloos

Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth s alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.

Still on Fire

Still on Fire
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 0871594161
ISBN-13 : 9780871594167
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Still on Fire by : Jan Phillips

Still on Fire is a memoir of religious wounding and spiritual healing, of judgment and forgiveness, and of social activism in a world that is in our hands. Phillips traveled the globe on a one-woman peace pilgrimage, raised the consciousness of women, faced her privilege on a trip to India, and is working to dismantle structural racism.

In the Field of Fire

In the Field of Fire
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0312930089
ISBN-13 : 9780312930080
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Field of Fire by : Jeanne Van Buren Dann

Science fiction and fantasy stories about the Vietnam War.

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666

London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781351582759
ISBN-13 : 1351582755
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666 by : Jacob F. Field

The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England. The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.