Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago, Paperback

Reducere. In Chicago, wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-...

Reducere. The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. The first white man here was a black man, Potowat...

Reducere. Zoe Clark is back in Chicago, and she already wants to run. But she can never turn her back on her monstrous hometown again. Grief, technology, iso...

Reducere. In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From garbage collection to the ...

Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of the impact of violence on Chicago's most vul...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Brian McCammackIllustration(s): 7 MapsNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234...

Reducere. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even...

Someone is trying to frame Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom for murder in the latest intriguing mystery. It's election season in corrupt Co...

DescriptionWhen the man who's hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator's search for his missing client unearths some shocking finding...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Ethan Doyle WhiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 31Cover type: Paperba...

Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotla...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

Reducere. Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great De...

DescriptionGlobalisation and consumerism affect every area of our lives. But it's not just about shopping; these powerful forces shape our personal...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Nick UnderwoodIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 266Collection: The Mo...

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather ShumakerSaving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land...

DescriptionOn a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino...

On October 21, 1966, thousands of tons of coal mining waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass c...

A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of artPublisher: Yale University P...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This ethnography of a live action role-playing (LARP) community examines the structure of play, how new participants are introduced and apprenticed...

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

Reducere. In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway...

In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London's elementary schools in the...

Reducere. Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and youn...

Reducere. Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanitiesMultidisciplinary approach to digital cultureCross-fertilization...

Reducere. In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing...

"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly hi...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Gary FergusonIllustration(s): 5 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021D...