Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis

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Embracing Genesis The Plan to Move You From Vision to Reality is a monthly, weekly daily planner all in one. When used in conjunction with the Embr...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Jeffrey OgdenNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 275 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperba...

The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr's practice of physics.Publisher: The Uni...

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to...

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Before the publication of Nature's Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each follow...

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ec...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation for...

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The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealiz...

DescriptionSince its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introd...

Following on from the introductory textbook "Creating Powerful Brands", this title is illustrated with real examples of influential marketing campa...

DescriptionIn August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, ...

Reducere. ``This beautiful little book is certainly suitable for anyone who has had an introductory course in physics and even for some who have not.``-Joshu...

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do....

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Mike AmezcuaIllustration(s): 32 halftonesNumber of pages: 320Collection: Historical Studies of...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Gerry RoachNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 24Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in ...

Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt exa...

There's a reason we pay top dollar for champagne and that bottles of wine from prestige vineyards cost as much as a car: a place's distinct geograp...

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Reducere. From the Author of the groundbreaking Chicago LGBTQ history book, Chicago Whispers!Chicago After Stonewall: Gay Lib to Gay Life is by award-winning...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John LennonIllustration(s): 20 color plates, 53 halftonesNumber of pages: 296Publication date:...

Reducere. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): John LennonIllustration(s): 20 color plates, 53 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date:...

Reducere. We live in unprecedented times, with increased polarization, complexity, and uncertainty. It's easy to get lost, feel frenetic or paralyzed, withou...

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Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s)...

Reducere. A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, this is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a 20th-century icon and controversial victim o...

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

'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print EditionsAuthor(s): W EffordIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 20Publication date: 2018Dime...

Contributor(s): Editor: Chiara CavalieriEditor: Paola ViganoWe usually think of cities as dense and vertical--but in reality most cities extend vas...

Authentic Chicago Cooking. Get your copy of the best and most unique Chicago recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into the delig...

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Reducere. Metropolis este un demers admirabil și o lectură extrem de captivantă. — The New York Times Book ReviewÎn cei două sute de mii de ani ai existenței...

"The maps themselves are things of beauty... a document of its time, of our time."--Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many ...

Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)Author(s): B. A. ShapiroIllustration(s): Text onlyNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revol...

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. ``You know something `` I would...

Reducere. This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Ar...