Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Paperback

Reducere. July 1936. Toronto is in the grip of a deadly heat wave. Horses are dropping in the street. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-perso...

Reducere. In Chicago, wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-...

Reducere. In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Free Amazons of Darkover. "Midwife" relates the adventures ...

Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features un...

Heat Wave seeks to unsettle and wrong-foot; it refuses to adopt a sententious or holier than thou attitudes regarding the many crises which confron...

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...

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. 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 ...

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

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of the impact of violence on Chicago's most vul...

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her dau...

Reducere. He drank her in, as if dying of thirst, but not touching her with anything more than his heated gaze.She held out her hand.He clasped it.And they c...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Brian McCammackIllustration(s): 7 MapsNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234...

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Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): T J KlunePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 234 x 34Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii...

Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and uproariously funny Extraordinaries trilogy by USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune.Publishe...

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 ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ugo CorteIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Someone is trying to frame Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom for murder in the latest intriguing mystery. It's election season in corrupt Co...

Reducere. The Founder of the proven Foundation Training program takes his teaching to the next phase, offering detailed understanding of our capacity to heal...

DescriptionWhen the man who's hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator's search for his missing client unearths some shocking finding...

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...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ugo CorteIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Brandon L. GarrettIllustration(s): 5 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022D...

DescriptionDespite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living a...

Reducere. Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts...

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Reducere. On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2, 500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaste...

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 ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...

A hair-raising account about the ins and outs of practising forensic pathology in Africa As a medical detective of the modern world, forensic patho...

Reducere. The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under uniq...

Reducere. Blodeuwedd. Flower Face. Keen-Eyed Hunter in the Night. Dwelling for centuries in darkness, flying on owl wings along the liminal boundary that str...

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--...

Reducere. In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural me...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Dal JinNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 12Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for...

A journalist's suicide reveals a country on the verge of implosion in this intimate portrait of family disintegration.

"The Existential Self in Society" explores the ways in which we experience and shape our individuality in a rapidly changing social world. Kotarba ...