Burning Paradise
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Burning Paradise
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Author : Robert Charles Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Burning Paradise written by Robert Charles Wilson and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
From Robert Charles Wilson, the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, comes Burning Paradise, a new tale of humans coming to grips with a universe of implacable strangeness. Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015—but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades—back to the dawn of radio communications—human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity. That by interfering with our communications, this entity has tweaked history in massive and subtle ways. That humanity is, for purposes unknown, being farmed. Cassie's parents were killed for this knowledge, along with most of the other members of their group. Since then, the survivors have scattered and gone into hiding. Cassie and her younger brother Thomas now live with her aunt Nerissa, who shares these dangerous secrets. Others live nearby. For eight years they have attempted to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape detection. The tactic has worked. Until now. Because the killers are back. And they're not human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Burning In Paradise
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Author : Michael Madsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Burning In Paradise written by Michael Madsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Actor/writer Michael Madsen's poetry explores the intense and gritty experiences of a man living life on the edge and chronicles episodes of loneliness, infidelity, depression, drugs, and sex.
Burning Paradise
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Author : Terry Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Burning Paradise written by Terry Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Arson categories.
In Santa Marta, California, a serial arsonist called Smoke is terrorizing the city. Smoke is a vicious pyromaniac whose fires have burned hundreds of homes and thousands of acres. The city's investigators are stumped, and the next target has already been chosen. Enter Monte Raleigh, private arson investigator and former firefighter. He has an arsenal of technology and education at his command, plus a generous contract from the city's libertine mayor. But Smoke's not above taunting Monte right along with the fire department, and not everyone in Santa Marta is eager to help the investigation--From publisher description.
Fire In Paradise An American Tragedy
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Author : Dani Anguiano
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Fire In Paradise An American Tragedy written by Dani Anguiano and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Nature categories.
The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.
The Cinema Of Tsui Hark
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Author : Lisa Morton
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-04-25
The Cinema Of Tsui Hark written by Lisa Morton and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Tsui Hark, one of China’s most famous film artists, is little known outside of Asia even though he has directed, produced, written, or acted in dozens of film, some of which are considered to be classics of modern Asian cinema. This work begins with a biography of the man and a look at his place in Hong Kong and world cinema, his influences, and his thematic obsessions. Each major film of his career is then reviewed, production details are provided, and comments from Tsui Hark himself are given.
Paradise
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Author : Lizzie Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2021-08-17
Paradise written by Lizzie Johnson and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Social Science categories.
The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. “A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric’s decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.
Burning All Illusions
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Author : David Edwards
language : en
Publisher: South End Press
Release Date : 1996
Burning All Illusions written by David Edwards and has been published by South End Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Philosophy categories.
This is a book about freedom. Above all about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained. What prison, after all, could be more secure than that deemed to be "the world," where boundaries of action and thought are assumed to define not the limits of the permissible, but the limits of the possible. In the past we have been prisoners of tyrants and dictators, and consequently have needed to win our freedom in very concrete, physical terms. We now need to free ourselves not from a slave ship or a concentration camp, but from many of the illusions fostered in our democratic society. "[A] wise and acute analysis of the way our minds are controlled, not in a totalitarian state, but in a 'democratic' one. Edwards also suggests how we can escape this control in a self-help book which, unlike other books of this genre, connects our inner world of alienation with the world outside."--Howard Zinn "[A] treatise on what freedom truly means.... Burning All Illusions is an important philosophical and psychology text that should be on every political science curriculum reading list!"--Wisconsin Book Watch
Burning The Books
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Author : Richard Ovenden
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Burning The Books written by Richard Ovenden and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Birds Of Paradise
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Author : Anne Malcom
language : en
Publisher: Anne Malcom
Release Date : 2021-03-31
Birds Of Paradise written by Anne Malcom and has been published by Anne Malcom this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with Fiction categories.
He collected beautiful things. Rare things. Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor. The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one broken human being. He came to kill me. That was his business. Death. He ripped me out of my natural environment, the prison I'd created, and locked me away with all of his beautiful dead things. I hated him. I still hate him. But if I was given the choice and the ability to leave this cage, come back to life, I'd stay dead. In all of my hideous splendor. Because my murderer can only possess dead things. And I can only be possessed by someone more broken and ugly than me.
Goodnight Paradise
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Author : Joshua Dysart
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Goodnight Paradise written by Joshua Dysart and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
TKO Studios presents "Goodnight Paradise" by Eisner-nominated writer Joshua Dysart (UNKNOWN SOLDIER, B.P.R.D.) From the Eisner Award nominated creators Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli comes a searing murder mystery. Unlikely homeless hero Eddie investigates the brutal murder of a runaway teenage girl. But can he alone bring her killer, or killers, to justice?