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The Water that Caught on Fire
Author | : Joann Scheck,Joan Scheck |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0570060443 |
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Setting Fire to Water
Author | : Phoebe Tsang |
Publsiher | : Thistledown Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2022-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1771872195 |
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Shifting restlessly from dark to light and back again, written in lithe, precise prose, the stories in Phoebe Tsang's Setting Fire to Water illuminate the lives of those who exist inside otherness. A young Asian woman, an artistic over-achiever turned drifter, endures a mind-bending night of reckoning as she struggles to find her way "home," careening between flirtation and thievery, dream and memory. A reality TV star obsesses about the real stain that blemishes the set of her fake, made-for-TV life. A modern fairytale is told from the point of view of a fox having an argument with its enemy, hunger. A heart-broken accountant goes on a pilgrimage to India to get his fire back, and his attempt to ask for mercy from the most holy of rivers fizzles like his former fiancée's tepid devotion. These seventeen stories unfold outside the Canadian mainstream, where longing--for home, for love, for artistic achievement, for spiritual fulfillment--is a given, and acceptance--of self, of the knowability of others, of the limits to knowing--is always in question. Using unconventional storylines and slippages in time and space, these stories explore the mystical possibilities inherent in contemporary life.
Where the River Burned
Author | : David Stradling,Richard Stradling |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801455650 |
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In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was at its nadir, polluted and impoverished, struggling to set a new course. The burning river became the emblem of all that was wrong with the urban environment in Cleveland and in all of industrial America.Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, had come into office in Cleveland a year earlier with energy and ideas. He surrounded himself with a talented staff, and his administration set new policies to combat pollution, improve housing, provide recreational opportunities, and spark downtown development. In Where the River Burned, David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted industrial city to viable service city during the Stokes administration.The story culminates with the first Earth Day in 1970, when broad citizen engagement marked a new commitment to the creation of a cleaner, more healthful and appealing city. Although concerned primarily with addressing poverty and inequality, Stokes understood that the transition from industrial city to service city required massive investments in the urban landscape. Stokes adopted ecological thinking that emphasized the connectedness of social and environmental problems and the need for regional solutions. He served two terms as mayor, but during his four years in office Cleveland's progress fell well short of his administration’s goals. Although he was acutely aware of the persistent racial and political boundaries that held back his city, Stokes was in many ways ahead of his time in his vision for Cleveland and a more livable urban America.
The Day the River Caught Fire
Author | : Barry Wittenstein |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2023-03-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781534480841 |
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Discover the true story of how a 1969 fire in one of the most polluted rivers in America sparked the national Earth Day movement in this nonfiction picture book by award-winning author Barry Wittenstein and beloved illustrator Jessie Hartland. After the Industrial Revolution in the 1880s, the Cayuhoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire almost twenty times, earning Cleveland the nickname “The Mistake on the Lake.” Waste dumping had made fires so routine that local politicians and media didn’t pay them any mind, and other Cleveland residents laughed off their combustible river and even wrote songs about it. But when the river ignited again in June 1969, the national media picked up on the story and added fuel to the fire of the recent environmental movement. A year later, in 1970, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency—leading to the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts—and the first Earth Day was celebrated. It was a celebration, it was a protest, and it was the beginning of a movement to save our planet.
Burning Rivers
Author | : John H. Hartig |
Publsiher | : Multi-Science Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biotic communities |
ISBN | : 1907132163 |
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This book is about four urban-industrial rivers in North America that were so polluted they have in the past actually caught fire. Their condition then is described, as is the work taken to restore them to 'health'. This book is an encouraging and instructive account of how man's destructive effect on the environment can be overcome. Former Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at Wayne State University, John Hartig has authored and co-authored over 100 publications on the Great Lakes ecosystem.
To Build a Fire
Author | : Jack London |
Publsiher | : The Creative Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1583415874 |
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Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.
By Fire By Water
Author | : Mitchell James Kaplan |
Publsiher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781590513521 |
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Recipient of the Independent Publishers Award for Historical Fiction (Gold Medal), the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction (Bronze Medal), and an honorable mention in the category of General Fiction for the Eric Hoffer Award. Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. When a dear friend’s demise brings the violence close to home, Santángel is enraged and takes retribution into his own hands. But he is from a family of conversos, and his Jewish heritage makes him an easy target. As Santángel witnesses the horrific persecution of his loved ones, he begins slowly to reconnect with the Jewish faith his family left behind. Feeding his curiosity about his past is his growing love for Judith Migdal, a clever and beautiful Jewish woman navigating the mounting tensions in Granada. While he struggles to decide what his reputation is worth and what he can sacrifice, one man offers him a chance he thought he’d lost…the chance to hope for a better world. Christopher Columbus has plans to discover a route to paradise, and only Luis de Santángel can help him. Within the dramatic story lies a subtle, insightful examination of the crisis of faith at the heart of the Spanish Inquisition. Irresolvable conflict rages within the conversos in By Fire, By Water, torn between the religion they left behind and the conversion meant to ensure their safety. In this story of love, God, faith, and torture, fifteenth-century Spain comes to dazzling, engrossing life.
Fire on the Water
Author | : Andrew Therriault |
Publsiher | : Epoch Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2019-12-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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On January 28, 2017, Andrew Therriault woke up with retrograde amnesia in the ICU at Massachusetts General Hospital. He survived sudden and serious violence and had been in a coma for multiple days, losing most of his memory. The loss of his memory proved to be an obstacle, and a silver lining, as he had to find himself again while recovering from near-fatal injuries, all while awaiting a hearing that would determine his future. Fire on the Water follows the author along his journey throughout the year of 2017, a year filled with hardship, adventure, trials, tribulations, triumphs, determination, and humor. As Andrew's first book, he is rightfully proud to have finished Fire on the Water just three years after enduring a severe ordeal.