Seeking Chicago

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

An out-of-control arsonist seeking revenge. A fireman and a detective on his tail. COUNT TO TEN is a compulsive thriller, part of the Chicago serie...

Chicago started life with a split personality. By the end of the Civil War wealthy Chicagoans and their wives were struggling to prove that their c...

Reducere. DescriptionChicago Blues, Book 2 of the trilogy Medicine for the BluesJimmy Harper arrives in Chicago with the Diggs Monroe Jazz Orchestra, seeking...

DescriptionFirst published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovat...

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This t...

Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from ...

Reconstructs the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period. This book contains translations from over a dozen Tantras. It is useful fo...

DescriptionThe philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to m...

Spirit Quest 1969: Tripping Through Lands of Enchantment, is the true tale of a disaffected suburban kid hitchhiking through western America to dis...

Reducere. Here and Hereafter is about what happens when mortality and eternity come together, often at times of life-endings, expanding human consciousness, ...

Reducere. A book for both the beer geek and the foodie seeking a better understanding of modern food and drink On the night of April 17, 1945, Allied planes ...

Reducere. Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of pa...

Reducere. Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city, " and n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John L. RoseAfter finding out the man he swore to murder is his own blood brother he never knew he had, and that Miami's le...

Reducere. "Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagin...

In this immensely readable book, noted cosmologist Rocky Kolb reveals the very human struggles of astronomy superstars seeking cosmic truths while ...

DescriptionPaul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how...

DescriptionShe wasn't particularly spiritual. She was looking for something else. A series of failed relationships behind her, she kept hoping for ...

Reducere. Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, d...

Reducere. The success of Fifty Professional Scenes for Student Actors prompted us to offer a new theatre book of winning audition material -- this time inclu...

Reducere. One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of We...

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, seeking to create a strategic outpost for New France, built Fort Toulouse in Creek territory. This area would eventually be...

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and...

Reducere. The Black Russian is the incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississipp...

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim--the first one caused by humans. Act...

Reducere. This entertaining and sharply written guide--for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance th...

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstr...

DescriptionWhether dashing through the Plains, creeping over the Rockies, hurtling across the Great Basin, or threading the Sierra Nevada, the Cali...

Reducere. Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more...

DescriptionEmphasising the artistry behind the decisions made by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for anyone seeking to understand the nat...

Reducere. Literary AwardInger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets, is perhaps best known for her groundbreak...

Reducere. Black Lives Matter at Schoolis an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Aw...

Reducere. This very practical book offers no-nonsense instructions for pastors, chaplains, and ministers whose real specialty is the practice of relational w...

A melancholic memoir of saying goodbye to the familiarBrimming with empathy and a charming, self-aware wit, Perfect Example is King-Cat zinester Jo...

On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in...

Reducere. Angioplasty at fifty-six, open-heart surgery at sixty-one, running his first half marathon less than a year later. This is the remarkable and inspi...

DescriptionFeaturing 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 1...

Reducere. Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book A...

"A powerful story." --The Horn Book "A worthy addition to children's biography collections." --Booklist "A solid treatment of an important but litt...

Reducere. It's 1975: Saigon has fallen, and erstwhile college-radical Caryn, now a young Chicago career woman on the climb, just got the letter that will set...

Reducere. "Disgusting, hilarious, and scary..." -Chicago Tribune"Stories from plumbers that will make you smile, giggle, and laugh out loud." -Arizona News I...

Reducere. A firsthand account of the swift transformation of Williamsburg, from factory backwater to artists' district to trendy hub and high-rise colony Wil...

Reducere. An affair formed a love triangle but one man ultimately won Leila's heart. As life's pressures mount, Leila finds herself drawn to the man she left...

Reducere. David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history....

Reducere. To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, ...

Reducere. 2-IN-1 BOOK AND WORKBOOK"I got messages from my angels! When I let go of pressuring myself to 'know' I found it, right there. I wasn't seeing the f...

Reducere. 2-IN-1 BOOK AND WORKBOOK"I got messages from my angels! When I let go of pressuring myself to 'know' I found it, right there. I wasn't seeing the f...