Through fire to fortune
Author: Alexander
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Published: 1900
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Author: Alexander
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Published: 1900
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gigi Pandian
Publisher: Gargoyle Girl Productions
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1938213157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifth book in the award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A blackmailer obsessed with gold. A boyfriend who’s more than he seems. And a treasure hidden on the Oregon coast. Alchemist Zoe Faust’s mentor Nicolas Flamel is back in her life, but catching up with him will have to wait. An elusive blackmailer has threatened to expose a dangerous alchemical secret. Zoe’s boyfriend is out of town protecting secrets of his own. So when rumors of a treasure map reach Zoe, she turns her back on what sounds like no more than a game. Zoe’s mischievous living gargoyle best friend Dorian, who thinks of himself as a modern-day Poirot, is convinced the map is real—and that it’s the key to proving himself as valuable to Zoe as her human family. With the help of the neighborhood teenagers, Dorian sets out to find the treasure, risking more than he planned in the process. Rumors, treasures, and secrets intersect to unearth more than Zoe could have dreamed—and could leave her family changed forever. Can Zoe stop the threat to the family unit she’s created?
Author: Gregory Simon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0520292790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in terms of structures lost—in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development within areas historically prone to fire. Simon skillfully blends techniques from environmental history, political ecology, and science studies to closely examine the Tunnel Fire within a broader historical and spatial context of regional economic development and natural-resource management, such as the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees as an exotic lure for homeowners and the creation of hillside neighborhoods for tax revenue—decisions that produced communities with increased vulnerability to fire. Simon demonstrates how in Oakland a drive for affluence led to a state of vulnerability for rich and poor alike that has only been exacerbated by the rebuilding of neighborhoods after the fire. Despite these troubling trends, Flame and Fortune in the American West illustrates how many popular and scientific debates on fire limit the scope and efficacy of policy responses. These risky yet profitable developments (what the author refers to as the Incendiary), as well as proposed strategies for challenging them, are discussed in the context of urbanizing areas around the American West and hold global applicability within hazard-prone areas.
Author: Hector
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mrs. Alexander
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Published: 2015-07-06
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781330855430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Collection of British Authors, Vol. 1: Tauchnitz Edition; Through Fire to Fortune "Now mind you do not let the fire go out, and lay supper for nine o'clock. I'll not be much after that. Be sure you finish your packing, Susy," was the parting injunction of Mrs. Mayfield, as she closed the area door of her neat little semi-detached house in Park Road, Kilburn. She was a plump, keen-eyed matron, who ruled the fortunes of a rather lazy husband, many sons, and two daughters, Susan being one of the latter. "Let us see to the fire at once," she said to a young friend who was spending the Sunday afternoon with her, "then we'll go upstairs and finish up my big box, for that's to go off to-morrow early, as it's to go with the heavy luggage. I am to join the family in the Isle of Wight to-morrow afternoon." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Mrs. Alexander
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 309
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jehanne Wake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1451607636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher: London : Bickers
Published: 1886
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James R. Davis
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1926706609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the jungles of west Africa to the killing fields of the former Yugoslavia, wherever the next global hotspot flares into action, the private military waits, ready to step into the fray. Once they were known as "soldiers of fortune." Now, they call themselves "military advisors." The honourable history of soldiers-for-hire clashes with the modern distaste for "mercenaries." In this compelling and controversial new book, James Davis reveals the shadowy inside world of the multi-billion-dollar international security industry.