Author : Craig Boutland
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541573811
"This book explores the phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion- what can we learn about it through historical documentation and the theories surrounding it? Captivate readers with this deep dive into a spooky, high-interest topic."--Provided by publisher.
Author : David B. Feinberg
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 1992-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In this sequel to the author's first novel, Eighty-Sixed, B.J. Rosenthal continues his tale of life in the post-AIDS gay community of New York in the late-1980's.
Author : Michael Strand
Publisher : Spontaneous Combustion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543929775
Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary form. Writers gather together and have twenty-four hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction based on three prompts. Once the entries are received, the favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a public audience. In the end, everyone casts a vote and the people-chosen "Top Tales" are published.This follow-up to Spontaneous Combustion: Volume I features of a powderkeg of short fiction spanning multiple genres. Writers Maxwell Reagan, Claudia Ionescu, Mike Lauer, Nathan Sacks, D. Zane Davis, Stephanie Olson, Claire Hoy, Michael T. Johnson, Scott Burtness, Deidra Purvis, and Randy Holland are featured in this explosive new installment. Prepare to spontaneously combust!
Author : Sherry Kramer
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780881453843
Human spontaneous combustion is not something that most people worry about, but Amalia Parker does, and that's why she won't sleep with Rob. Sex with someone she doesn't care about might not be so dangerous, but with the man she truly loves? A definite possibility. This is the kind of logic that only makes sense in the Parker household, where Mom cooks obsessively, Dad has turned the house into an 18-hole golf course, and ancient maiden Aunt Emily does laundry and practices the family art of selective sight. A sweet, quirky comedy. The critics on Sherry Kramer's plays: DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH: "Sherry Kramer's extraordinary play ... is like a puzzle: after slowly and painstakingly connecting a series of dots, one uncovers an integrated image out of what appeared to be chaos." -The Chicago Reader THINGS THAT BREAK: ..". a terribly difficult, painfully beautiful play ... This is a wildly imaginative piece of work." -Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times THE WALL OF WATER: "THE WALL OF WATER quickly bursts through the dam of conventional theater for two hours of the kind of inspired and breathtaking chaos so rare on America's stages that we may have forgotten the word for it. The word is farce." - Margaret Spillane, New Haven Independent WHAT A MAN WEIGHS: ..". its view of sexual politics becomes more and more complex, funny, and biting." -Time WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS: "As timely as it is revealing, and as witty as wise." -Austin Chronicle
Author : Aaron Starmer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 069840808X
Now a new motion picture starring Katherine Langford, Charlie Plummer, and Hayley Law! “Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read.” –John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Mara Carlyle’s senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-calc. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t be the last teenager to blow up without warning or explanation. As the national eye turns to Mara’s suburban New Jersey hometown, the FBI rolls in and the search for a reason is on. Mara narrates the end of their world as she knows it while trying to make it to graduation in one piece. It’s an explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, lifelong friendship, hallucinogenic mushrooms, bloggers, ice cream trucks, and Bon Jovi. Aaron Starmer rewrites the rulebook with Spontaneous. But beneath the outrageous is a ridiculously funny, super honest, and truly moving exemplar of the absurd and raw truths of being a teenager in the 21st century . . . and the heartache of saying goodbye. “Wildly inventive.” –Entertainment Weekly “Must List” “A comically surreal novel that will blow your mind.” –People Magazine
Author : Jenny Randles
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Combustion, Spontaneous human
ISBN : 9780709084020
In depth research into this baffling mystery are revealed in this book. Determined to avoid the hackneyed solutions of the past the authors, both experienced researchers in the field of paranormal happenings, have explored the entire subject rationally from within, interviewing everyone from fire officers to victims who have survived.
Author : Richard Thomas
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684427568
A 2022 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE A TOR NIGHTFIRE MOST EXCITING HORROR BOOK OF 2022 "In range alone, Richard Thomas is boundless. He is Lovecraft. He is Bradbury. He is Gaiman." —Chuck Palahniuk With a Foreword by Brian Evenson In this new collection, Richard Thomas has crafted fourteen stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating, piercing blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Equally provocative and profound, each story is masterfully woven with transgressive themes that burrow beneath the skin. A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man, his game of chance now turned into a life-or-death coin flip. A set of twins find they have mysterious new powers when an asteroid crashes in a field near their house, and the decisions they make create an uneasy balance. A fantasy world is filled with one man’s desire to feel whole again, finally finding love, only to have the shocking truth of his life exposed in an appalling twist. A father and son work slave labor in a brave new world run by aliens and mount a rebellion that may end up freeing them all. A clown takes off his make-up in a gloomy basement to reveal something more horrifying under the white, tacky skin. Powerful and haunting, Thomas’ transportive collection dares you to examine what lies in the darkest, most twisted corners of human existence and not be transformed by what you find.
Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : Skoob Books Pub Limited
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Combustion, Spontaneous human
ISBN : 9781871438659
Offers authenticated examples of spontaneous combustion and challenges everyone to look again at theories which hitherto have been considered freakish, weird and crackpot.
Author : Xinyang Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030336936
This book aims to understand, analyze and mitigate the harmful impacts of spontaneous coal combustion in underground mines, a thermal phenomenon that triggers fires and explosions threatening the safety of mine workers globally. Based on experimental and theoretical research findings, the book emphasizes three essential questions that are fundamental to understand spontaneous coal combustion: What are the root causes? How to evaluate the causative factors to determine the activity of coal? and How to bring this issue under control in real longwall panel? Readers are introduced to experimental techniques applied to investigate the basic molecular structure of coal and evaluate chemical properties that induce self-heating behavior, theoretical analyses to predict the extrinsic effect on low temperature oxidation of coal in experimental scale and full-size longwall panel, and preventive measures to mitigate this issue using methods for retardant screening, numerical simulations for optimal grouting and nitrogen injections, and case studies analyzing thermal events using mine atmosphere gas monitoring data. The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying mining engineering and chemistry, as well as engineers and practitioners involved in coal mine development and risk assessment.
Author : Wilfrid Francis
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1483182266
Fuels and Fuel Technology, Volume One: A Summarized Manual provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of fuels and fuel technology. This book presents a reasonably accurate summary of the existing knowledge and literature relating to fuel technology. Organized into two sections encompassing 72 data sheets, this volume begins with an overview of fuels as organic combustible substances used mainly or solely for the production of useful heat that are divided into three classes, namely, solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels. This text then examines the main chemical components of wood. This book discusses as well the commercial production of peat. The final section deals with the calculations of theoretical and actual air requirements, dry and wet flue gases, and carbon dioxide in flue gases. This book is a valuable resource for chemists and fuel technologists. Students who are interested to obtain a qualification in the subject of fuels or fuel technology will also find this book useful.
