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Author | : Daniel French |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822964254 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2017-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822981939 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476746605 |
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*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 | : Norman MacLean |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022645049X |
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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 | : Frank Pacetta |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1995-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0684800500 |
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Author | : Ken Davis |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780310486619 |
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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.
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Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Melanie Rae Thon |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2023-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1573662003 |
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"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 | : Baldwin Spencer |
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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