The Second City: The Essentially Accurate History, Hardcover - The Second City

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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...

"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she doe...

The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. This second edition dives deeper into...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 211—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that ent...

In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of ...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard VinenNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Around two hundred million years ago, geological forces produced an expansive grove of rocky caverns and outcroppings atop Lookout Mountain. It was...

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For the past 10 years, Joseph Natale Schneiderman has visited 55 firehouses in the grand City of New York. He is a "Buff", or someone who visited f...

Publisher: Monday BooksAuthor(s): Theodore DalrympleNumber of pages: 326Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 206 x 136 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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Reducere. A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the ...

Reducere. Pittsburgh's contributions to the uniquely American art form of jazz are essential to its national narrative. Fleeing the Jim Crow South in the twe...

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Second German Evangelical Lutheran was one of the earliest German-speaking congregations established in Baltimore, Maryland. Fortunately, the survi...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Cincinnati played a crucial role in preserving the United States. Not only was the city the North's most populous in the west...

Reducere. In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the indu...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament's most infamous cities. Like many Christians today in the academ...

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Reducere. Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle ...

DescriptionIn 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest sil...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Many people in the West look upon the Second S...

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Reducere. In the depths of the Great Depression, the United States undertook a task so monumental it demanded nearly five thousand people to complete. The Ho...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

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Reducere. In History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire, writer Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alex Graudins tell the true story of how a city rose up from one of...