City on Fire

• Author : Anna Rose Alexander
• Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
• Release : 30 April 2016

By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize

• Author : Tracy Higley
• Publisher : Thomas Nelson
• Release : 24 September 2013

Previously released as Pompeii. As Vesuvius churns, a slave girl-turned-gladiator joins forces with an unlikely source to seek justice. In the coastal town of Pompeii, a new gladiator prepares to fight. But this gladiator hides a deadly secret: she’s a runaway Jewish slave girl named Ariella, disguised as a young boy. A savvy fighter, Ariella determines to triumph in the arena, knowing her life will be forfeit should anyone uncover the truth. Cato, a wealthy politician, moved to Pompeii

• Author : Angel Luis Colón
• Publisher : Down & Out Books
• Release : 04 December 2017

Angel Luis Colón invites you on a short tour of the world as a literary mix tape to that strange goth girl with the lazy eye who still wants nothing to do with you; no matter how good that fedora looks on your head. So what’s in store for your brain? Follow three major moments in the life of gambling addict and mafia muscle, Sean Clarke as he goes from softhearted kid to full blown bastard to broken

• Author : Sorah Shapiro
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 May 2022

• Author : Garth Risk Hallberg
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 17 May 2022

The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have to do with a shooting in Central Park. From post-Vietnam youth

• Author : George Vicesimus Wigram
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 May 1860

• Author : George V. Wigram
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 May 1866

• Author : Dale Sherman
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 01 February 2015

QUENTIN TARANTINO FAQ: EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINAL RESERVOIR DOG

• Author : Geoffrey Block
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 30 October 2009

This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing,

• Author : Albany
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 May 2022

• Author : Lisa Odham Stokes,Rachel Braaten
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release : 15 January 2020

Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a

• Author : Jack Blanco
• Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
• Release : 01 June 1996

This devotional paraphrase brings the thoughts expressed in the Bible into clear focus.The result is that you find not only more understanding in reading the Bible, but more joy. Perfect for devotional reading, this edition features an easier-to-use format.

• Author : Rachel Maines
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 30 August 2013

For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral

• Author : Nathaniel West
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 17 May 2022

• Author : Rod Giblett
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 11 August 2016

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying