Chicago: America's Workshop, Paperback - Peter N. Pero

Reducere. For more than a century, Chicago has been a workshop to the world. The city nurtured thousands of companies that supplied a hungry market with indu...

Reducere. For nearly 150 years, Pilsen has been a port of entry for thousands of immigrants. Mexicans, Czechs, Poles, Lithuanians, Croatians, and Germans are...

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter N. NemetzIllustration(s): 51 Line drawings, black and white; 83 Halftones, black and white; 74 Tabl...

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 ...

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 ...

DescriptionBringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World prov...

Using a cross-disciplinary, science and economics-based approach, this book provides a sobering and comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted ba...

Reducere. A collective biography of the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war that provides the first comprehensive, objective, and dee...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume examines the many dimensions of dialogue as a key driver of peaceful personal and social change. While most people agree on ...

A complete work on the construction of a three metre-wide workshop, this book contains the details for building the floor assembly, walls and roof ...

Reducere. Rothbard opens with a theoretical treatment of business cycle theory, showing how an expansive monetary policy generates imbalances between investm...

Complete coverage for your Citroen C4 Petrol and Diesel (04 10) 54 to 60 Every manual is written from hands-on experience gained from stripping dow...

Side A: 1. Night Train - 5: 152. Mr. Brownstone - 4: 303. Live And Let Die - 3: 104. Wild Horses - 3: 465. Welcome To The Jungle - 5: 04Side B: 1. ...

DescriptionEveryone always seems to be talking about the end of the world--Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer ro...

Reducere. Thirty years after opening, the Chicago Diner is still the Windy City's premier vegetarian eatery, now with two locations and a national fan base. ...

Reducere. When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a c...

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...

Reducere. Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America's most popular spectator sport wasn't baseball, boxing, or horseracing--it was competitiv...

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and med...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had...

Reducere. Iguales pero Diferentes es la historia de Lisa y Lida, primas y amigas entrañables a las cuales les encanta jugar. Así como sus nombres son casi si...

Reducere. FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZEA new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of ...

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate ...

DescriptionWhen journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for ...

Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and ...

In July 1944, the 9, 000-man Japanese garrison on the island of Tinian listened warily as the thunder of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, A...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attrib...

This is the second volume of Judith Shklar's work and brings together essays on a number of themes, including the place of the intellect in the mod...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire Rydell ArcenasIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dim...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre N. McCloskeyNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 218 x 141 x 16Cover ...

DescriptionMechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specif...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Brady WoodNumber of pages: 24Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 7Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten HeroesIn this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a...

Reducere. The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage acros...

With six powerful 2, 500hp Pratt & Whitney radial engines, the B-36 was the largest aircraft ever to enter volume production, joining the US Air Fo...

As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll traces its origins, discusses its mos...

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argue...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Peter BalakianNumber of pages: 80Collection: Phoenix PoetsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 23...