Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago, Hardcover - Joseph D. Kearney

Reducere. How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of ...

Scotland's Foreshore tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the C...

Reducere. Italians have been a part of the Chicago community since the 1850s. The city's Italian immigration rate peaked in 1914, and many of these new resid...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities--MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others--an impo...

Reducere. Like the Cheshire Cat, much of Chicago's history fades away while perched in plain sight. For more than a century, the brick walls of the city serv...

A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more th...

The Fitzgeralds are buttressed by wealth and privilege, but they are also buffeted by crisis after crisis, many of their own creation. Even so, the...

Reducere. On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what bega...

Reducere. When investigating the mysteries of Chicago's past, it's helpful to examine the physical evidence. From a fiddle played by a Chicago pioneer and a ...

Reducere. In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how personal loss influences the way physicians rel...

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DescriptionUnfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposi...

Reducere. This is the first full history of Operation Breadbasket, the interfaith economic justice program that transformed into Jesse Jackson's Operation PU...

Reducere. Brash, brilliant and funny, the Chicago Imagists--from the Hairy Who and Nonplussed Some to False Image and Marriage Chicago Style--receive a full ...

Reducere. This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technologies, fit into existing general law categories of public and private law. The b...

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

This book delves into the many innovative changes that the financial industry has undergone in recent years. The authors investigate these developm...

Reducere. A straightforward approach to managing tantrums. Noting that of all the behavioral problems parents face from their children, temper tantrums may b...

Reducere. This volume outlines the approaches to human rights and responsibilities within the different world religions. Featuring contributions from over 15...

In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation...

This book describes how the Supreme Court has used procedural law to undermine the civil rights of minority workers. It is a valuable resource for ...

Energize your classrooms with these key techniques for college teaching Students say the best teachers get them excited about learning, stretch the...

Reducere. Prayers for Living offers 500 new accessible, contemporary and wide-ranging intercessory prayers suitable for public worship or private devotion. T...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...

DescriptionBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty awa...

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Reducere. An exciting new popular study of the male body--fresh, honest, and full of revelationsIn this surprising, candid cultural analysis, Susan Bordo beg...

Reducere. The New Yorker called him, "probably the richest and most famous private chef in the world, " and there is every reason to believe that Mrs. Twombl...

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Reducere. An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Huma...

DescriptionIn the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and h...

Reducere. Hoodlum Lawyer is the term that the FBI used to refer to Joseph Imburgio Bulger, the author's grandfather. Bulger led a mysterious, dangerous life....

Reducere. IAN Withers rewrote the book on what it means to be a Private Investigator.He traversed the world recovering abducted children, gathered intelligen...

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Reducere. From Larry D. Struve, Director of Commerce during former Nevada Governor Richard H. Bryan's administration (1983-1989) comes this insightful look i...

Reducere. When investigating the mysteries of Chicago's past, it's helpful to examine the physical evidence. From a fiddle played by a Chicago pioneer and a ...

Reducere. Jodie's insightful and practical application of Scripture keeps her studies at the top of my list.--Kat Armstrong, author of The In-Between Place J...

Parteneriatul public-privat in contextul legislativ actual intern si unional - Oliviu Puie

VOL 1Volumul I, intitulat Regimul juridic al terenurilor proprietate privata si al terenurilor proprietate publica in contextul legislativ actual. ...

Reducere. In Separated by Their Sex, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-Americ...

Setting out multiple perspectives from media and journalism scholars, this collection addresses the implications today's technological, socio-polit...

This comprehensive book is a practical guide for executive and non-executive directors and aspiring directors to lead, govern and steer UK-based or...

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...

DescriptionEleanor and Franklin is one of the most highly acclaimed biographies written in recent times. Its author, Joseph Lash, won the Pulitzer ...

Reducere. Is it actually possible to innovate in government? Can a public sector CIO build a great culture and drive digital transformations? Yes! And, this ...

The revised new edition of the must-read guide for executives--provides comprehensive coverage of topics in corporate governance by leading subject...