[PDF] Fire In The United States eBook

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295805218

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From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Author : United States. National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fire extinction
ISBN :

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The striking aspect of the Nation's fire problem is the indifference with which Americans confront the subject. Destructive fire takes a huge toll in lives, injuries, and property losses, yet there is no need to accept those losses with resignation. There are many measures, often very simple precautions, that can be taken to reduce those losses significantly. To encourage solutions to these problems, the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control has made recommendations in this report.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309460042

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Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, regulatory, and economic factors have converged to make wildland fire management exceptionally challenging for U.S. federal, state, and local authorities. Given the mounting, unsustainable costs and difficulty translating existing wildland fire science into policy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a 1-day workshop to focus on how a century of wildland fire research can contribute to improving wildland fire management. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Sharon Smith
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608469182

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“A concise, well-written history of U.S. working-class struggle and radicalism” from the author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital (Solidarity). Smith explores how the connection between the U.S. labor movement and the Democratic Party, with its extensive corporate ties, has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. And she closely examines the role of the labor movement in the 2004 presidential election, tracing the shrinking electoral influence of organized labor and the failure of labor-management cooperation, “business unionism,” and reliance on the Democrats to deliver any real gains. “Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity.” —Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back “A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

Author : David Von Drehle
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802141514

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Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implications of the catastrophe for twentieth-century politics and labor relations.