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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword: Small Book, Big Story | |
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| Introduction: Kindling | |
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| Fire and Earth: Creating Combustion | |
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| How Fire Came to Be | |
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| How Life Accommodated Fire | |
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| First Fire Today | |
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| Touched by Fire | |
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| Frontiers of Fire (Part 1): Fire Colonizing by Hominids | |
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| What Made Early Fires Effective | |
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| First Contact: When Fire Arrives | |
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| Lost Contact: When Fire Departs | |
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| Aboriginal Fire: Controlling the Spark | |
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| Why They Burned | |
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| Where and How They Burned | |
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| Dying Fire: When the Firestick Leaves | |
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| Agricultural Fire: Cultivating Fuel | |
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| The Fire in Agriculture's Hearth | |
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| How to Cultivate Fire | |
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| What They Meant to Each Other | |
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| Rites of Fire | |
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| Frontiers of Fire (Part 2): Fire Colonizing by Agriculture | |
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| How Conversion Leads to Colonization | |
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| Stories from the Fire Frontier | |
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| Comings and Goings of Agricultural Fire Today | |
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| Urban Fire: Building Habitats for Fire | |
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| Hearth and House: Making a Home for Fire | |
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| Built to Burn: A Fire Ecology for the City Combustible | |
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| The Eternal Flame Invisible: Fire in the Industrial City | |
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| Pyrotechnics: Fire and Technology | |
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| Prometheus Unchained | |
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| Cycles of Pyrotechnology: How Fire Has Cooked the Earth | |
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| Fire Powers: Controlled--and Not-So-Controlled--Fire as Mover and Shaker | |
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| Fire in the Mind | |
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| Frontiers of Fire (Part 3): Fire Colonizing by Europe | |
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| How Europe Expanded Fire's Realm | |
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| How Europe Contained Fire's Realm | |
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| How Europe Redefined Fire's Realm | |
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| Industrial Fire: Stoking the Big Burn | |
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| How Industrial Combustion Has Added Fire | |
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| How Industrial Combustion Has Subtracted Fire | |
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| How Industrial Combustion Has Rearranged Fire Regimes | |
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| The Future of Fire: Burning Beyond the Millennium | |
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| As the World Burns: What Is and Isn't Burning, and Where | |
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| Still the Keeper of the Flame | |
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| Selected Sources and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |