Slow Burn City

Slow Burn City

Author: Rowan Moore

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1447270193

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With a new introduction for the paperback. London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril. London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living. In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention. The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.


Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Author: Renée Jacobs

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0271036818

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"A pictorial chronicle of the Centralia, Pennsylvania, mine fire disaster in 1962, which led, decades later, to the destruction of the town. Includes interviews and historical background"--Provided by publisher.


Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn

Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn

Author: Ace Atkins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0698161246

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Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in this adventure in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series. The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston’s South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department believe it was just a simple accident: faulty wiring in a century-old building. But Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze, suspects arson. McGee is convinced department investigators aren’t sufficiently connected to the city’s lowlifes to get a handle on who's behind the blaze—so he takes the case to Spenser. Spenser quickly learns not only that McGee might be right, but that the fire might be linked to a rash of new arsons, spreading through the city, burning faster and hotter every night. Spenser follows the trail of fires to Boston’s underworld, bringing him, his trusted ally Hawk, and his apprentice Sixkill toe-to-toe with a dangerous new enemy who wants Spenser dead, and doesn’t play by the city’s old rules. Spenser has to find the firebug before he kills again—and stay alive himself.


Slow Burn: Firestorm, Book 10

Slow Burn: Firestorm, Book 10

Author: Bobby Adair

Publisher:

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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Fourteen years have passed since the virus ripped through the global population, crushing the modern world and leaving the cities crawling with the infected. The immune who survived the violence of the collapse fled to remote havens like Balmorhea, a tiny town in the desert of far West Texas. There, a few hundred normals made a go of it, building walls, farming the dry dirt, and learning to thrive together. With them, Zed and Murphy, survivors of the infection are different but still human. Distrusted and despised because of what they are, they're still the first to fight when the hordes maraud out of the wastes. Now, a new menace is lurking beyond the horizon, threatening to destroy everything they've built. Will they survive the savage violence sweeping across the desert, or will they be consumed by the FIRESTORM?


Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Author: Stu Mittleman

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0062131036

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In Slow Burn, endurance master Stu Mittleman delivers a program for creating energy and increasing endurance so you can go the distance and feel great doing it every day, week, and year. Change your workout, change your life: Think: Stu shares his proven formula for breaking down seemingly insurmountable goals into a series of manageable tasks. Train: Learn to understand your body's signals and refocus your training so that the movement -- not the outcome -- is the reward. Eat: Stu teaches you how to make nutritional choices that leave you energized -- not exhausted -- all day long. You really can accomplish more -- with less effort -- than you ever imagined. All you have to do is change your focus and you'll change your life. Let Slow Burn show you how to enjoy the journey and achieve the results.


Slow Burn: Zero Day

Slow Burn: Zero Day

Author: Bobby Adair

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781491087466

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A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried. People are frightened. But Zed Zane is oblivious. Zed needs to borrow rent money from his parents. He gets up Sunday morning, drinks enough tequila to stifle his pride and heads to his mom's house for a lunch of begging, again.But something is wrong. There's blood in the foyer. His mother's corpse is on the living room floor. Zed's stepdad, Dan is wild with crazy-eyed violence and attacks Zed when he comes into the house. They struggle into the kitchen. Dan's yellow teeth tear at Zed's arm but Zed grabs a knife and stabs Dan, thirty-seven times, or so the police later say.With infection burning in his blood, Zed is arrested for murder but the world is falling apart and he soon finds himself back on the street, fighting for his life among the infected who would kill him and the normal people, who fear him.


Slow Burn: Bleed

Slow Burn: Bleed

Author: Bobby Adair

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781503181199

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Zed and Murphy are trying to find their surviving friends to finally get out of Austin and head west to safety, away from the zombie hordes. But trouble, their perpetual companion, dogs them at every turn as they discover that infected humans aren't the only source of mortal danger.


Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Author: A K MacBride

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-17

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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My new neighbor ticks all the right boxes.Tall - check.Muscular - check.Tatted - double check.Until he opens his mouth.Adam is grumpy, rude, and obnoxious as hell.And I really should tell him exactly where he can shove his insults.Instead, I bite my tongue.He intrigues me, and I can't fight the need I have to find out what caused the pain so evident in his dark eyes.Soon the thick, hungry flames surrounding Adam consume me.I should've known better.Because when you play with fire, you're bound to get burned.


Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Author: Gerald M. Ford

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780330427548

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Anticipating disaster, a prestigious global restaurant convention hires Leo as Special Security Officer. His assignment: monitor the movements of two adversarial steakhouse competitors whose "beef" has previously made for some nasty confrontations and a food critic who's caught in between the warring factions. But soon, Leo finds himself served up as the prime suspect in a murder, and both his life and career are at stake.


Slow Burn

Slow Burn

Author: S. L. Stoner

Publisher: Yamhill Press

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 173200661X

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Slow Burn had its impetus in a one-paragraph, 1903 news article, reporting that the city council had voted to plank or gravel Powell Blvd and Milwaukie Ave. after being warned by the Fire Insurance Underwriter’s Board that the city’s continued failure to make the two roads passable during wet weather would result in all structures in that area being uninsurable. This organization’s impact in this instance triggered the author’s research into both the firefighters’ working conditions and the Underwriter’s Board. Slow Burn’s release, on June 26, 2018, marked the 105th David Campbell memorial service at Portland’s Firefighters’ Memorial Park on Portland’s West Burnside. Campbell, Portland’s most beloved fire chief, was killed in 1911 during a Standard Oil tank fire on the city’s east side. He was the first to enter the building, intent on insuring it was safe for his firefighter crew to enter. This seventh book in the award-winning Sage Adair historical mystery series features Campbell and the firefighters he died to protect. Interwoven within this tale of courage and sacrifice is the equally compelling story of how Portland’s black community addressed the growing racism of the nation’s post-reconstruction era. Ordered to a mysterious late night meeting Sage Adair is suddenly thrust onto firefighting’s front lines and into the lives of Portland’s firefighters. Concerned by the reality of early 1900's firefighting, Sage is soon hunting the arsonist who is burning down the city and framing innocent men for his crimes. Relying on original source material, contemporary news reports and firsthand accounts, this is an accurate portrayal of the lives of Portland’s firefighters at the turn of the 20th century as well as a depiction of the black community’s resilience in the face of that era’s rising racism.