Chicago: A Biography, Paperback

Reducere. At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub and t...

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

Giving voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies van der Rohe, this comprehensive biography tells the com...

Reducere. This groundbreaking biography of a brilliant but disturbed performer explores the paradox of the man and the artist. Based on more than 100 intervi...

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 ...

Reducere. This riveting sequel to "My Bloody Life" traces Reymundo Sanchez s struggle to create a normal life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's mo...

Reducere. One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first l...

With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessibl...

Reducere. Offering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman s struggle to survive the streets ...

"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weathe...

In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our rele...

This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and decline - as well as hea...

Reducere. More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), ...

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...

Reducere. This history of Zorro brings together the character's origins and demonstrates his impact on pop culture, not only revealing that Zorro was the ins...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still ...

Reducere. Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of pa...

Reducere. DescriptionA source of inspiration for young women with strong social convictions, She Takes a Stand highlights 16 extraordinary women who have fou...

Reducere. Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of ...

Reducere. One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W. S. Abbey was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli...

Reducere. In this lively and insightful memoir, Jeremiah Joyce recounts a wide-ranging career that in many way tracks the history of Chicago over the last ha...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MackNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 227 x 420 x 22Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fianc e. She described how the police pulled...

Reducere. In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Malaga...

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rule...

For 50 years, CHICAGO--the rock & roll band with horns--has been thrilling fans. And for 50 years, their trombonist has been the incomparable JIMMY...