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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 | |