Reducere. From Alaa Al Aswany, the author of the highly-acclaimed The Yacoubian Building, comes a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in...
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Reducere. There can only be one: one man with two loyal friends and secrets from the past that will ultimately shake up the entire hood in Chicago; one man o...
Reducere. In Chicago, wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-...
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Reducere. Chicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world's most impressive architecture. Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuil...
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Reducere. DescriptionMany of Chicago's greatest or most unusual restaurants are "no longer taking reservations, " but they're definitely not forgotten. From ...
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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...
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Reducere. DescriptionLike the Cheshire Cat, much of Chicago's history fades away while perched in plain sight. For more than a century, the brick walls of th...
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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...
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Reducere. A colorful, rhyming children's book that highlights all of the wonderful adventures, historic sites, and fun activities that kids and their familie...
Reducere. Hidden gems from Chicago's pastTales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. ...
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Reducere. The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottl...
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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 ...
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Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...
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Reducere. What is now known as The Chicago Manual of Style was first published in 1906 as a "Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules ...
Reducere. Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. MaxonIn this third edition of East Africa: An Introductory History, Robert M. Maxon revisits the diverse eastern ...
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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. Although fundamental factors of program, technology, and economics make tall buildings everywhere take similar forms, skyscrapers in New York and C...
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Reducere. 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 ...
northern illinois university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil act...
Reducere. Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city, " and n...
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Reducere. Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew...
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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...
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Reducere. ``A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation 'funded a study on Jell-O wrestling at the South Pole.' That is i...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface and bo...
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Reducere. Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy,...
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Reducere. "You expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Un...
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Reducere. Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob...
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Reducere. Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunder...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...
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Reducere. The Big 50: Chicago Cubs is an extensive and dynamic look at the 50 top moments and figures that make the Cubs the Cubs The Big 50: Chicago Cubs is...
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Reducere. The new and updated edition of the USA TODAY bestseller and most popular Spanish dictionary provides easy reference for educators and language lear...
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Reducere. An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--...
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Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating History of Chicago Founded as a tiny, temporary settlement, Chicago became a crux of the American fur trade befo...
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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...
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Reducere. Led by stars like Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, Mike Singletary, William ``Refrigerator`` Perry, head coach Mike Ditka, and defensive coordinator Bud...
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Reducere. Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publicat...
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Reducere. Equal parts outlaw, renegade, and legend, Waylon Jennings enjoyed a stellar music career for four decades and this no-holds-barred autobiography re...
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Reducere. Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also...
Reducere. A man's home is his castle, or so the saying goes, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and t...
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Reducere. Three collections of George Sand's writings: her journal to Alfred de Musset; the Piffoel journal, composed of conversations between her masculine ...
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Reducere. "Chicago Poems" is an early collection of poems by American writer, poet, and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg. Published in 1916 and...
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