The Burning River

Author : Lawrence Patchett
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776562666
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning River written by Lawrence Patchett and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van's life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau and Matewai, he mines plastic and trades to survive. When a young visitor summons him to the fenced settlement on the hill, he is offered a new and frightening responsibility—a perilous inland journey that leads to a tense confrontation and the prospect of a rebuilt world.

Author : Mark Winegardner
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358541328
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crooked River Burning written by Mark Winegardner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet-and fall in love-four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctant star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Winegardner spins an epic tale of those twenty years, artfully weaving such real-life Clevelanders as Eliot Ness, Alan Freed, and Carl Stokes into the tapestry. His narrative gifts may bring the fiction of E. L. Doctorow to some readers' minds, but Winegardner is very much his own man, and his observations of Cleveland are laced with a loving skepticism. His masterful saga of this conflicted city is a novel that speaks a memorable truth.

Author : David Stradling
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455650
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the River Burned written by David Stradling and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was at its nadir, polluted and impoverished, struggling to set a new course. The burning river became the emblem of all that was wrong with the urban environment in Cleveland and in all of industrial America.Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, had come into office in Cleveland a year earlier with energy and ideas. He surrounded himself with a talented staff, and his administration set new policies to combat pollution, improve housing, provide recreational opportunities, and spark downtown development. In Where the River Burned, David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted industrial city to viable service city during the Stokes administration.The story culminates with the first Earth Day in 1970, when broad citizen engagement marked a new commitment to the creation of a cleaner, more healthful and appealing city. Although concerned primarily with addressing poverty and inequality, Stokes understood that the transition from industrial city to service city required massive investments in the urban landscape. Stokes adopted ecological thinking that emphasized the connectedness of social and environmental problems and the need for regional solutions. He served two terms as mayor, but during his four years in office Cleveland's progress fell well short of his administration’s goals. Although he was acutely aware of the persistent racial and political boundaries that held back his city, Stokes was in many ways ahead of his time in his vision for Cleveland and a more livable urban America.

Author : John Verdon
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640090649
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White River Burning written by John Verdon and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Verdon writes grown–up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well–developed characters and crimes that have social consequences. White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe–for–hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes." —The New York Times Book Review Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry demonstrations, arson, and looting. In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper. As the town spirals out of control, local authorities approach Dave Gurney to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. White River Burning is the most provocative and timely book yet by the author hailed by The New York Times as "masterly."

Author : John Quest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780798630344
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning River written by John Quest and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kylienne A. Clark
Publisher : The Ohio State University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.

Author : Paul Mann
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780804115506
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Ghats written by Paul Mann and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-10-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the river city of Varanasi, the bodies of the devout dead are cremated and their ashes scattered. But now a lethal chemical is swirling down the river. Attorney George Sansi suspects a rich and invincible magnate.

Author : Alyesha Wise-Hernandez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578940885
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning River written by Alyesha Wise-Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelley Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977215079
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O is for Ohio written by Kelley Clark and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Cool Things About the Amazing Buckeye State! Do you know what Ohio's "official" state beverage and rock song are? Ever wonder why the Pro Football Hall of Fame is located just down the road from the Rubber Capital of the World? Proud Buckeye John Glenn was first American to orbit the Earth, but can you name Ohio's other space pioneers? And, what about Johnny Appleseed? Most people have heard about him but what company used his tasty Ohio apples to become one of the biggest makers of jams and jellies in the world? O is for Ohio answers all these questions and more! Beautiful pictures, fun rhymes and important history about the 17th state that will make anyone want to jump to their feet and scream "O - H - I - O!"

Author : Werner Braatz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974936307
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire on the River written by Werner Braatz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 15, 1904 about 1,200 members of the Lutheran Parish of S. Mark, located in the Lower East Side of New York City, embarked on the excursion steamer GENERAL SLOCUM bound for a day's outing on Long Island. Thirty minutes later fire broke out. The crew, most of whom had only been on theship for a few days, were unable to quench the blaze which was soon out of control. Captain Van Schaick ordered full speed ahead and, ignoring the shore 300 yards away made a frantic dash for a small island nearly two miles distant. The wind, made all the stronger by the swift movement of theship, drove the fire sternward where most of the passengers, almost all of them women and children, had taken refuge. Many were burned to death but the great bulk drowned when they jumped into the rive to escape the flames, or fell in when the ship's handrail collapsed. The official death toll was1,031. It was America's second worst marine disaster. It was quickly discovered that the life-belts and fire-fighting apparatus were useless. Public opinion was outraged and the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt was seriously embarrassed when a report describing the utter incompetence of the Federal Steamboat Inspection Bureau was released. The government dismissed several members of the Bureauand even brought one of the inspectors, Henry Lundberg, to trial three times but never won any of the cases. In the end only aged Captain Van Schaick was made to pay for his own negligence as well as that of everyone else. In 1906 he was sentenced to ten years at hard labor; appeals kept himout of Sing Sing until 1908, when at the age of 71, he at last started to serve his sentence. The old man's imprisonment was considered a monstrous injustice by many who bombarded the White House with letters and petitions asking for clemency. Roosevelt stood firm. After three and one-half years in prison Van Schaickwas paroled and, a year later, pardoned by President Taft. Meanwhile, St. Mark's Parish, or little Germany as it was often called, went into an irreversible decline. The survivors attacked their leading clergyman, Pastor George Haas, for his handling of the thousands of dollars in relief money collected for the destitute. More importantly many families affected by the tragedy moved away in order to forget the horror of theaccident and within a few years one of the strongest ethnic communities in New York City had vanished.