Chicago: The Second City, Paperback - A. J. Liebling

Reducere. Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy C...

Reducere. "Chicago's temple of improvisational comedy." --New York Times Since opening in 1959, The Second City has transformed the state of comedy as we kno...

Reducere. Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Ju...

Reducere. In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Gov...

Reducere. New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appe...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

The area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home ...

Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as par...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

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...

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to ...

Reducere. The City anthology is a unique creation. It's a concept anthology, a collection of stories where eighteen different authors share their vision of a...

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When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jere...

In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of ...

Presents a guide for archaeologists and anthropologists worldwide. This edition features archaeological and ethnographic study of pottery. It begin...

"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she doe...

No other Sanskrit work approaches the Bhagavadgita in the influence it has exerted in the West. Philosophers such as Emerson and the other New Engl...

DescriptionRichly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's unparalleled architecture. Meticulousl...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Peter Godfrey-SmithIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimen...

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Reducere. Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as ``brilliant literary ...

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"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, ...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

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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Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fern n...

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The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. This second edition dives deeper into...

Reducere. DescriptionThe past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings, " whose work probes...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 211—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that ent...

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