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Education & Teaching

Burke, Robert

Schools & Teaching

Simon&Schuster

Fire Protection: Systems and Response

CRC-Press

Fire Protection

Reference

Acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures in museums.

Museum Security and Protection: A Handbook for Cultural Heritage Institutions (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Liston, David

History

Routledge

This is the extraordinary story of one man's search for his family roots. It is extraordinary for several reasons, not least of which is the wonderful variety of family members which emerge. Admirals, farmers, surgeons and priests; widows and emigres; rebels and conservatives; Irish, English, New Zealander and American are all part of the rich Burke tapestry which is unfolded. It is also extraordinary in its disclosure of the wealth of records and assistance which are available to the family historian, and the value of persistence and imagination in their use. But perhaps most particularly it is extraordinary in its description of the eerie mix of coincidence and chance which assisted the search. The story focuses on the Burkes (we will not disclose which Burkes as that would spoil the story). However, the families of Collingwood, Collis, Creagh, Mullay, Blark, Kirwan, Browne, and many others are also central to the search.

Annie's Letter: The Story of a Search

Biographies & Memoirs

Flyleaf Press

The adventures of heroine Abigail Regan continue as her transformational abilities are coveted by a centuries-old succubus in Paris. Rayna, the master warrior, returns with her own deadly agenda, and Abigail is forced to choose sides in a battle that may impact the fate of mankind. Danger and betrayal block the way home to adobeDreams as Abigail must confront her past and master the bestial rage that threatens to destroy everyone around her.

adobeDreams II: The End of Karma

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

TierraDreams, Inc.

Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders

The third edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "street chemistry" required by emergency response personnel. Emergency response and hazmat expert Robert Burke takes the basics of chemistry appropriate for response personnel and puts it into understandable terms. The author has retained the style and format that made the previous editions so popular while updating the information to keep the book relevant.
See What’s in the Third Edition: <ul>
<li>Expanded section on Ethanol and its hazards to responders</li> <li>Update of NFPA 472 Chemistry requirements</li> <li>Revised section on "hazmat elements" with more hazards and response issues</li> <li>Includes a focus on the importance of the "hazmat elements" of chemical families</li> <li>New incident examples</li> <li>New photographs and graphics</li> </ul>
The chapters are organized by the nine U.S. Department of Transportation's hazard classes. Almost every hazardous material presents more than one hazard; the DOT’s placarding and labeling system only identifies the most severe hazards. Therefore, the book provides additional information about hidden hazards for each hazard class. It discusses individual chemicals, their hazards and their physical and chemical characteristics, both as distinct chemicals and within chemical families. The book offers a concise presentation of the topics of most importance to emergency responders on a day-to-day basis. It provides the basic chemistry a responder needs to understand chemical terminology and communicate with others about the chemicals involved in hazardous materials incidents.

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciously facilitate new ideas to be made accessible to an audience broader than the innovators themselves. Experimentation in Improvised Jazz explores key elements of experimental jazz music in order to discern ways in which the genre is developing. The book begins with an overview of where, when and how new ideas in free and improvised jazz have been created and added to the canon, developing the genre beyond its initial roots. It moves on to consider how and why musicians create free and improvised jazz; the decisions they make while playing. What are they responding to? What are they depending on? What are they thinking? The authors analyse and synthesise the creation of free jazz by correlating the latest research to the reflections provided by some of the world’s greatest jazz innovators for this project. Finally, the book examines how we respond to free and improvised jazz: artistically, critically and personally. Free jazz is, the book argues, an environment that develops through experimentation with new ideas.

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas

Arts & Photography

Onsman, Andrys

Music

Father's Day weekend, Arcata, California. Twenty thousand people have descended upon the college town bordering Humboldt Bay to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Redwood forests to the east. Here to enjoy the twentieth annual Oyster Festival, the crowd looks forward to a day of music, microbrew and oysters in an environment the counterculture of the '60's could only dream about. Here, in a place once dominated by logging interests and reactionary politics, Arcata had transformed itself into a Mecca for people wanting to embrace clean energy, Green Party politics and local, non franchised businesses. The mere notion that a town located in the Redwood Empire would allow thousands of people to assemble in the village square, drink beer, somewhat discreetly smoke pot and dance the afternoon away would have seemed impossible to anyone who lived here forty years ago. Sitting in lawn chairs and enjoying all that is going on, ten of us, all once residents of Humboldt County, revel in the noise, fun and freedom of the day. By five o'clock, the crowd begins to thin and we head to a local eatery known for it's fresh organic fare. Looking back, it seems impossible to imagine what has transpired. Through the Redwood Curtain is an account of just how a place so magical came to be. It was not an easy journey.

Through the Redwood Curtain

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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