The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit, Paperback - 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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Description"I was inspired by the way a car can steal the show. Think of iconic car chases in films--it's often about spectacle, and has little to ...

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

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

Reducere. Growing Up In The Near North Side Of Chicago is an oral history, turned into a chronicle, obtained by personal interviews with my childhood friends...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): W. J. T. MitchellIllustration(s): 6 line drawingsNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 1987Dim...

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...

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

Reducere. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America's 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical In 1933, Joan Harrison was a twenty-six-year-o...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Michael J MooreIllustration(s): 33 halftonesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicia...

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

From a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting our current moment and a stirring reflection on the future o...

The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is har...

This bilingual edition contains an introduction to the three major periods of the troubadours - their beginning, rise, and decline - as well as hea...

An edition of the notes written by J. Frank Adams for his lecture series at the University of Chicago in 1967, 1970, and 1971. The three series foc...

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...

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fern n...

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

Reducere. Disc 1 1 If You Leave Me Now (Remastered LP Version) 2 Hard To Say I'm Sorry (Single Version) 3 You're The Inspiration (LP Version) 4 Hard Habit To...

Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperil...

Reducere. Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy C...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

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We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and t...

Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were...

Reducere. In this rugged account of a rugged profession, Matthew Desmond explores the heart and soul of the wildland firefighter. Having joined a firecrew in...

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

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