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Book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago

Download or read book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago written by Thomas James Riley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago

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  • Author : Thomas James Riley
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-04-29
  • ISBN : 9781533010988
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago written by Thomas James Riley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago by Thomas James Riley. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1905 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Book The Higher Life of Chicago

Download or read book The Higher Life of Chicago written by Thomas James Riley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago

Download or read book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago written by Thomas J. 1870-1931 Riley and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago

Download or read book A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago written by Thomas James Riley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Study of the Higher Life of Chicago: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department or Sociology) This book is the result of a study of the cultural interests of Chicago. The commercial, industrial, and sanitary conditions of the city are assumed as given, and as forming the baas of the educational, social, moral, aesthetic, and religious life of the community. A discussion of all the agencies that make for the better life of Chicago has been impossible, but it is believed that those found in the following pages are representative and fairly inclusive. Special attention is called to the tables on Women's Clubs, Social Settlements; and Charities, found in the Appendix. It is hoped that these may be of use for social and philanthropic workers, and form a basis for a complete directory of these institutions. It is the author's hope also that this conspectus will give an intelligent view of Chicago's endowment of culture, and furnish great cause for encouragement to all its public-spirited citizens. The book is submitted also as a suggested plan for studying the higher life of a great city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Book George Herbert Mead

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  • Author : Peter Hamilton
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780415037556
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book George Herbert Mead written by Peter Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Metropolis

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  • Author : St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Black Metropolis written by St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The  Higher Life  in the American City of the 1890 s

Download or read book The Higher Life in the American City of the 1890 s written by Jane Allen Shikoh and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The University of Chicago

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  • Author : John W. Boyer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024-09-06
  • ISBN : 0226835316
  • Pages : 785 pages

Download or read book The University of Chicago written by John W. Boyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations.

Book Papers and Proceedings

Download or read book Papers and Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States Catalog

Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great American City

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  • Author : Robert J. Sampson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 022683400X
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book Great American City written by Robert J. Sampson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--

Book The Outlook

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The  higher Life  in the American City of the 1890 s

Download or read book The higher Life in the American City of the 1890 s written by Jane Allen Shikoh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heat Wave

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  • Author : Eric Klinenberg
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-05-06
  • ISBN : 022627621X
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Heat Wave written by Eric Klinenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes

Book Art and the Higher Life

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  • Author : Kathleen A. Pyne
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 0292765711
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Art and the Higher Life written by Kathleen A. Pyne and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in the nineteenth century, many Americans were troubled by the theories of Charles Darwin, which contradicted both traditional Christian teachings and the idea of human supremacy over nature, and by an influx of foreign immigrants, who challenged the supremacy of the old Anglo-Saxon elite. In response, many people drew comfort from the theories of philosopher Herbert Spencer, who held that human society inevitably develops towards higher and more spiritual forms. In this illuminating study, Kathleen Pyne explores how Spencer's theories influenced a generation of American artists. She shows how the painters of the 1880s and 1890s, particularly John La Farge, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Dewing and the Boston school, and the impressionist painters of the Ten, developed an art dedicated to social refinement and spiritual ideals and to defending the Anglo-Saxon elite of which they were members. This linking of visual culture to the problematic conditions of American life radically reinterprets the most important trends in late nineteenth-century American painting.

Book The Survey

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1084 pages

Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: