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Book Flame of New Orleans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Patton Statham
  • Publisher : Fawcett
  • Release : 1978-06
  • ISBN : 9780449137208
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Flame of New Orleans written by Frances Patton Statham and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1978-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960-04-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-04-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Fire and Water Engineering

Download or read book Fire and Water Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Up Stairs Lounge Arson

Download or read book The Up Stairs Lounge Arson written by Clayton Delery-Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would have provided moral leadership at a time of crisis were either silent or were openly disdainful of the dead, most of whom were gay men. Based upon review of hundreds of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary news accounts, interviews with former patrons of the lounge, and the extensive documentary trail left behind by the criminal investigations, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been.

Book Fire and Water

Download or read book Fire and Water written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Service Magazine

Download or read book Public Service Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fire Protection Service

Download or read book Fire Protection Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fire Engineering

Download or read book Fire Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Standard

Download or read book The Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bourbon Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Campanella
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2014-03-05
  • ISBN : 0807155063
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Bourbon Street written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a year. A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during the colonial period through three tumultuous centuries, arriving at the world-famous entertainment strip of today. Clearly written and carefully researched, Campanella’s book interweaves world events—from the Louisiana Purchase to World War II to Hurricane Katrina—with local and national characters, ranging from presidents to showgirls, to explain how Bourbon Street became an intriguing and singular artifact, uniquely informative of both New Orleans’s history and American society. While offering a captivating historical-geographical panorama of Bourbon Street, Campanella also presents a contemporary microview of the area, describing the population, architecture, and local economy, and shows how Bourbon Street operates on a typical night. The fate of these few blocks in the French Quarter is played out on a larger stage, however, as the internationally recognized brands that Bourbon Street merchants and the city of New Orleans strive to promote both clash with and complement each other. An epic narrative detailing the influence of politics, money, race, sex, organized crime, and tourism, Bourbon Street: A History ultimately demonstrates that one of the most well-known addresses in North America is more than the epicenter of Mardi Gras; it serves as a battleground for a fundamental dispute over cultural authenticity and commodification.

Book Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association

Download or read book Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eating Smoke

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Tebeau
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 1421412500
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.

Book Lumber World Review

Download or read book Lumber World Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Southern Reporter

Download or read book Southern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.

Book Fire Technology Abstracts

Download or read book Fire Technology Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eternal Flame

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia Eden
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2013-11-14
  • ISBN : 1617736112
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Eternal Flame written by Cynthia Eden and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizzling paranormal adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Eternal Hunter, “a fast-paced, sexy thrill ride” (Christine Feehan). Cynthia Eden invites you into the world of the Others—supernatural creatures who are sexy, powerful, and more than human in every way . . . No one that deadly should look that good. Hybrid demon Zane Wynter specializes in tracking the most lethal criminals, whether human or Other. But Jana Carter is nothing like his previous targets. She’s an Ignitor, able to conjure and control fire. She’s also sexy beyond belief—and used to playing dirty . . . Jana knows she’s being set up. She even knows who’s responsible: Project Perseus, a secretive group that plans to rid the world of paranormals by any means necessary. From Louisiana’s sultry swamps to its desolate cemeteries, Jana and Zane must race to destroy the mastermind behind Perseus before their world goes up in flames—and with it, a desire that burns too hot to resist. . . Praise for Cynthia Eden and Eternal Flame “I dare you not to love a Cynthia Eden book!”—Larissa Ione, New York Times bestselling author “Eden’s characters are strong and sexy, the twisty movie-like plot is tight and entertaining, and the book stands well on its own.”—Publishers Weekly

Book Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana

Download or read book Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: