Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois, Hardcover

Reducere. Bonds of Loyalty, Paperback

Reducere. Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard w...

Reducere. Crossroads of the continent, Land of Lincoln, hub of commerce--or, as Charles Dickens viewed it, a landscape "oppressive in its barren monotony"--I...

The 'Monster of Symmetry' is a giant snowflake in 196, 884 dimensions - with a beautiful structure which may turn out to unlock the very fabric of ...

Surveying the American artist's multimedia works on paper from 1964 to the presentAmerican artist Louise Fishman's (born 1939) physical and process...

Reducere. The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest a...

DescriptionThe Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe was a major star of the Grand Ole Opry for over fifty years; a member of the Country Music, S...

Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 1939 was turning his attention to a world o...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

Reducere. Although he was Abraham and Mary Lincoln's oldest and last surviving son, the details of Robert T. Lincoln's life are misunderstood by some and unk...

Reducere. A conservative take on the antifascist movementAntifascism argues that current self-described antifascists are not struggling against a reappearanc...

Reducere. In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the mountain system found in present-day Poland, Slovakia, and Ukrai...

Reducere. Eastern Illinois Panthers Football chronicles the legend and lore of this storied program, from the early days under coach and university-auditor-o...

Reducere. DescriptionA history of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system, America's largest and oldest health insurer, from its beginnings to the 1990s. It dr...

Reducere. K. B. E. E. Eimeleus was ahead of his time with his advocacy of ski training in the Russian armed forces. Employing terminology never before used i...

Reducere. The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangste...

Reducere. In a world where greed outweighs loyalty and trust is lent to no one, JUAN-JUAN and J-BO share an uncommon bond that defines the meaning of true fr...

Reducere. In an era when minorities struggled for recognition, LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller furthered the interests of Native Americans and forged a ne...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 12 black & white photographs, 25 music examples, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Mu...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 7 black & white photographs, 1 music exampleNumber of pages: 272Collection: Music in Americ...

Reducere. The Great War that engulfed Europe between 1914 and 1918 was a catastrophe for France. French soil was the site of most of the fighting on the West...

Reducere. Fusing general interest in mushrooming with serious scholarship, "Mushrooms of the Midwest" describes and illustrates over five hundred of the regi...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 46 black & white photographs, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Offering a devastating rebuttal to the comfortable myth that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant, Lawrence H. Keeley's groundbr...

Reducere. During antebellum wars the Regular Army preserved the peace, suppressed the Indians, and bore the brunt of the fighting. The Civil War, however, br...

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

DescriptionA Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Nancy GuyIllustration(s): 25 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 272Collection: Music in ...

Reducere. Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, m...

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 ...

Explores David Lynch's experimental aestheticsPublisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Justus NielandIllustration(s): 26 black and white p...

Since the release of Do the Right Thing in 1989, Spike Lee has established himself as a cinematic icon. Lee's mostly independent films garner popul...

Description"That's when everything started, " Simone de Beauvoir wrote in an entry dated July 8, 1929. On that day, her relationship with Jean-Paul...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Po...

In Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead, writer Kent Gramm and photographer Chris Heisey tell the famous battle's story through the eyes of those wh...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Robert LefortNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 22Cover type: Pape...