Burning and Building

Burning and Building

Author: Brian Platt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1684174015

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"Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb mounting social disorder and mobilize the Japanese people against the threat of Western imperialism. The sweeping tone of this revolutionary plan obscured the fact that the Japanese were already quite literate and had clear ideas about what a school should be. In the century preceding the Meiji restoration, commoners throughout Japan had established 50,000 schools with almost no guidance or support from the government. Consequently, the Ministry of Education’s new code of 1872 met with resistance, as local officials, teachers, and citizens sought compromises and pursued alternative educational visions. Their efforts ultimately led to the growth and consolidation of a new educational system, one with the imprint of local demands and expectations. This book traces the unfolding of this process in Nagano prefecture and explores how local people negotiated the formation of the new order in their own communities. "


Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition

Collapse of Burning Buildings, 2nd Edition

Author: Vincent Dunn

Publisher: PennWell Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1593702337

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1. General collapse information 2. Terms of construction and building design 3. Building construction: firefighting problems and structural hazards 4. Masonry wall collapse 5. Collapse dangers of parapet walls 6. Wood floor collapse 7. Sloping peak roof collapse 8. Timber truss roof collapse 9. Flat roof collapse 10. Lightweight steel roof and floor collapse 11. Lightweight wood truss collapse 12. Ceiling collapse 13. Stairway collapse 14. Fire escape dangers 15. Wood-frame building collapse 16. Collapse hazards of buildings under construction 17. Collapse caused by master stream operations 18. Search-and-rescue at a building collapse 19. Safety precautions prior to collapse 20. Why the World Trade Center Towers collapsed 21. High-rise building collapse 22. Post-fire analysis 23. Early floor collapse EPILOGUE: Are architects, engineers, and code-writing officials friends of the firefighters?


Failure Point

Failure Point

Author: Howard Hill

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1593702833

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Describes building construction features and how to recognize collapse dangers for all types of buildings and construction methods. Includes : key elements that warn of imminent fire-induced collapse; how to prevent injuries to operating personnel; adapting risk/benefit techniques to manage firefighting personnel on the fireground; how building codes affect fire-induced building collapses.


To Build a Fire

To Build a Fire

Author: Jack London

Publisher: The Creative Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781583415870

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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.


Barn Burning Barn Building

Barn Burning Barn Building

Author: Ben F. Barnes

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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How did the Democratic Party--party of JFK, LBJ, and civil rights--fall from glory? How did Texas become Bush territory? What do politicians on either side need to do today to get our country back on track? Ben Barnes has the answers. Barnes had a front-row seat through it all. He won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1960, at the age of 22, and four years later became the youngest Speaker of the House since the Civil War. In 1968, he helped Congressman George H. W. Bush get his son into the National Guard. How did his party lose its place in Texas, and the nation? Here, Barnes takes readers inside the rise and fall of the party he loves. He uses lessons learned in the Texas trenches as a guiding light for a new generation of lawmakers and political hopefuls, and calls for a return to bipartisan consensus building.--From publisher description.


Burning Buildings

Burning Buildings

Author: Mark E. Scott

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781978457799

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Jason Kubrick is an aggressively complacent, middle-aged banker who believes nothing will ever change. Until it does. Jolted from his comfort zone by a series of misfortunate events, he is lead down a path of personal destruction, putting friendships, his job, and even his freedom at risk. Set in Cincinnati, Burning Buildings is the story of a man who can't seem to get out of his own way but whose semi-charmed existence tends to leave him virtually unscathed, either due to sheer luck or the good graces of unseen guardian angels.


Burning the Books

Burning the Books

Author: Richard Ovenden

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0674241207

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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.


Burning Book

Burning Book

Author: Jessica Bruder

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1416928243

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Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.


New York Burning

New York Burning

Author: Jill Lepore

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0307427005

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.


Selling from the Heart

Selling from the Heart

Author: Larry Levine

Publisher:

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781636981741

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Sales professionals and entrepreneurs will discover new levels of sales performance and personal fulfillment in Selling From the Heart, a resource that coaches individuals to examine their true selves, form deeper relationships and generate better sales.