The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit, Hardcover - Matthew J. Luzi

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...

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...

Reducere. No business, legitimate or otherwise, has had a more raucous influence on the history of a city than that of the Outfit in Chicago. From the roots ...

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....

One of the founding forces behind the 1970s feminist art movement, Judy Chicago became widely known for The Dinner Party, a massive installation tu...

Harold C. Urey (1893-1981), whose discoveries lie at the foundation of modern science, was one of the most famous American scientists of the twenti...

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...

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Reducere. Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years The...

Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glitter...

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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. A lavishly illustrated and engaging selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa.Abou...

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...

Reducere. The Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL's ``Original Six, `` have been building their storied legacy for decades. Since their founding in 1926, the ...

Reducere. The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball's most beloved if hard-luck teams, starting with the fra...

Reducere. Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and vi...

Reducere. An in-depth look at the fifty best Bears players in franchise history, featuring profiles and photography created by the Chicago Tribune. The Chica...

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

Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe...

DescriptionDuring a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long hist...

Reducere. September 12, 1910: The world premiere of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony and the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his ...

"Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, ...

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that end...

DescriptionOver the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scho...

Reducere. America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic...

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

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth,...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Of all our childhood memories, few are quite as thrilling, or as tactile, as those of climbing trees. Scampering up the rough trunk, spying on the ...

Africa is playing a more important role in world affairs than ever before. Yet the most common images of Africa in the American mind are ones of po...

Warmly written and scientifically informed, Animals' Best Friends is the invitation we all need to improve the lives of nonhuman animals among us-a...

The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being r...

DescriptionFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. W...

Every May, a sea of 250, 000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city...