Chicago Street Cop: Amazing True Stories from the Mean Streets of Chicago and Beyond, Paperback - Pat McCarthy

Reducere. Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy,...

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...

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...

Reducere. Guilty as charged. If reading true crime is a guilty pleasure, this collection of stunning heists and unspeakable murders from the front pages of h...

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The Chicago Cubs are one of the most historic teams in Major League Baseball, and their World Series championship in 2016 will forever remain one o...

Reducere. Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: C...

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Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses assoc...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire L. WendlandIllustration(s): 6 halftones, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: ...

Reducere. Timuel Black is an acclaimed historian, activist, and storyteller. Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black chronicles the life and times...

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded stre...

When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, he shocked the world. In it he claimed that humans were just another animal species th...

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

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Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place, approaching the study of place a...

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 15Co...

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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...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter James HudsonFrom the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a...

The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and doing invaluable service...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alejandro NavaIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions...

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Reducere. Meet Paco the pint-size Chihuahua who scared to masked robbers out of a convenience store; a pet cat that takes swimming lessons, a parrot that rid...

Reducere. In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-d...

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What's in a name? Quite a lot - the tales behind the most popular, common, unusual, famous and amusing street namesPublisher: Quadrille Publishing ...

Reducere. The former child star--best known as Willis Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes--shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addic...

Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 22Co...

Reducere. An updated and expanded edition of The Eli's Cheesecake Cookbook, released in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Eli's Cheesecake. The story of...

First published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston.

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Reducere. Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years The...