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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman—these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In Urban Disorder... more...
The Plan of Chicago
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 12.00Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago , coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy... more...
City Water, City Life
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created it. In City Water, City Life , celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this infrastructure... more...
Chinese Christians
Hong Kong University Press 2005; US$ 40.00Every so often a work of history appears that radically changes our understanding of people, place and period. Chinese Christian is such a work. This book asks questions about Hong Kong that have never been asked before. It shows that the leaders of Chinese society had a far greater role in shaping early Hong Kong history than earlier historians had... more...
Anger Habit
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.99Semmelroth takes you step by step through the process of identifying and getting over the anger habit. more...
GloboChrist (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Baker Publishing Group 2008; US$ 22.00A leading postmodern thinker discusses the church's need to reconsider the Great Commission in light of globalization and the spread of technology with specific strategies for meeting current challenges. more...
Pearl Harbor 1941
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95December 7, 1941 was one of the single most decisive days of World War II (1939-1945) - the day that brought the USA into the fight. Six Japanese aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves on the superior US Pacific Fleet as it lay slumbering in Pearl Harbor. Depending on opposing viewpoints, the attack was either a brilliant maneuver... more...
Gettysburg 1863
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95Osprey's study of the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), one of the decisive battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Confederate invasion of the Northern states was General Lee's last great gamble. By taking the war to the Union he hoped to force Lincoln into peace negotiations, or win support from the European powers who were watching events... more...
Chancellorsville 1863
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95Osprey's examination of the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Following the debacle of the battle of Fredricksburg in December 1862, Burnside was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac by General Joseph Hooker. Having reorganised the army and improved morale, he planned an attack that would take his... more...
Fredericksburg 1862
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 15.95Osprey's examination of the Battle of Fredericksburg of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In December 1862, things were still confused for the Union. Antietam had been a failure for both sides, and although the battle showed that the Union army could bring the Confederates to bay, it couldn't pin them in one place long enough to destroy them. In... more...









