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Eating Fire
Language: en
Pages: 205
Authors: Kelly J. Cogswell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-01 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New York’s East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An ex–Southern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in an Aven
Eating Fire and Drinking Water
Language: en
Pages: 419
Authors: Arlene J. Chai
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-26 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed
Catching Fire
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Richard Wrangham
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-06 - Publisher: Profile Books

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In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings
Eating Smoke
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Mark Tebeau
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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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
The Hamlet Fire
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Bryant Simon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-23 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magn