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ADS - Allgemeine Deutsche Seeversicherungs-Bedingungen
De Gruyter 1985; US$ 133.00ADS - Allgemeine Deutsche Seeversicherungs-Bedingungen more...
An American Hometown
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 21.95They lived "green" out of necessity -- walking to work, repairing everything from worn shoes to wristwatches, recycling milk bottles and packing containers. Music was largely heard live and most residential streets had shade trees. The nearby Wabash River -- a repeated subject of story and song -- ... more...
American Pharaoh
Little, Brown and Company 2001; US$ 9.99This is a biography of mayor Richard J. Daley. It is the story of his rise from the working-class Irish neighbourhood of his childhood to his role as one of the most important figures in 20th century American politics. more...
Bathroom Trivia
DK Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99Bathroom Trivia is a witty, one-off title designed to be read while answering the call of nature in the bathroom. Arranged in an informal way that readers can dip into randomly, the pages provide enough trivia, games, puzzles, stories, articles, and quizzes for even the longest restroom visits. Featuring an innovative mix of photographs and original... more...
The Best Man for the Job
ECW Press 2001; US$ 13.95Exploring the why and the how of civic corruption in a Northern Ontario city, this compelling story begins in the late 1980s, when the official languages policies of Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, and David Peterson collided with the Sault’s deep-rooted resistance to bilingualism. The man at the center of the uproar over the city's infamous... more...
Black on the Block
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50In Black on the Block , Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. ... more...
Brown in the Windy City
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 36.00Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the city, adding a complex layer to local... more...
Chicago
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose... more...
Chicago '68
University of Chicago Press 1994; US$ 27.00Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists—the... more...
Chicago Lives
Triumph Books 2006; US$ 16.99A unique journey through the 20th century in Chicago, this work reveals the characters whose lives put an indelible stamp on the city. Some were famous, like Richard J. Daley and Harold Washington, while others were infamous or unacknowledged, living fascinating lives that helped shape the city while remaining anonymous at the same time like, such... more...









