Chicago Review Press

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressNumber of pages: 512Collection: Crime and Justice: A Review of ResearchPublication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, "The Politics of Heroin" includes meticulous documentation o...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Ken WaissmanNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedes...

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

DescriptionAn L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to ...

DescriptionFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. W...

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 ...

DescriptionIn January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first ye...

"American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. " --Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water: The Attica ...

Reducere. A rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with ...

Reducere. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Nelson SimonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine, " the irreverent opening line to Horses, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot--and illegal--forays into Mexico, C...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, B...

DescriptionOn New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several ...

Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As t...

DescriptionThe Art of Inventing Hope offers an unprecedented, in-depth conversation between the world's most revered Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiese...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Jean BeauvoirNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 161 x 32Cover type: HardbackRede...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Randal Maurice JelksNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 22Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this volume contends that neither the Roman ...

Reducere. The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives ClubFar Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized stor...

Reducere. Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely...

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Reducere. "On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels--her times, eerily resembling our own." --Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archive...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeff LenburgAuthor: Joan Howard MaurerAuthor: Greg LenburgFor more than 50 years--in 200 comedy shorts, 25 feature films, a...

Reducere. The story of Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer during six summers from 1928 through 1939--each showing Hemingway at a different place in his wr...

Reducere. For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few ye...

Reducere. Renowned Beatles expert Ken Womack and music historian Jason Kruppa explore Harrison and Clapton's musical and personal collaboration, friendship, ...

Reducere. "Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . . . It is essentially the Gacy story in reverse....

Reducere. This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, H...

Reducere. "This is true crime at its most enthralling--prepare to be transported." --Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic The 1830 murder...

Reducere. Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral argu...

Reducere. Karen Knotts tells the full story of her father, Don Knotts Much has been written about Don Knotts's career, especially about his iconic role as Ba...

Reducere. "Masterfully researched and beautifully written, One Week in America is . . . an important piece of history full of larger-than-life characters and...

Reducere. 2015 Amelia Bloomer Project List This close look at Wonder Woman's history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman w...

Reducere. The 1968 US men's Olympic track and field team won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, one of the most dominant perf...

Reducere. Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and pra...

Reducere. From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour...

Reducere. Written for the practising professional just starting out or looking to learn new tricks of the trade, this title contains updated industry statist...

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...

Reducere. Arthur Briggs's life was Homeric in scope. Born on the tiny island of Grenada, he set sail for Harlem during the Renaissance, then to Europe in the...

Reducere. Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend's abandoned autobiography. Collecting and ...

Reducere. The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New...

Reducere. The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is the most comprehensive book on the words of America s greatest...

Reducere. Design for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is on...

Reducere. This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century's most iconic ...

Reducere. In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of ...

Reducere. In 1921, one of the biggest movie stars in the world was accused of killing a woman. What followed was an unprecedented avalanche of press coverage...

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 ...

Reducere. Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a strange and eventful life. Now, for the first time, he tells ...

Reducere. Action Art: Hands-On Active Art Adventures is A Collection of Over 100 Active Hands-On Art Experiences for Children 2-12, Full of Adventure, Moveme...

DescriptionThough early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to...

Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the poin...

Reducere. The year was 1609, and British explorer Henry Hudson had landed in North America at the bidding of the Dutch East India Company. But Hudson was not...

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 a series of more than 50 interviews that span seven decades, many never before seen in print, this is the story of Led Zeppelin told by the peop...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Lisa LaBanca RogersNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. "Joel Christian Gills shows how ordinary people fight for our collective liberation and whose stories are not often at the forefront of our histori...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the fin...

Reducere. Terry O'Reilly, host of the popular radio show Under the Influence, provides the best stories about smart marketing for small business. In Terry's ...

DescriptionBERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a ...

Reducere. Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells ...

DescriptionPirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates--who th...

Reducere. George Harrison on George Harrison is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of Harrison's most revealing and illuminating interviews...

Reducere. Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In th...

Reducere. DescriptionGet ready to create and count in this exciting introduction to math MathArts is an innovative approach that uses creative art projects t...

Reducere. In pursuit of economic growth, the United States and other developed countries are testing the tolerance of the natural world. The results include ...

Reducere. The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial ci...