Download or read book Compass American Guides Chicago 3rd Edition written by Jack Schnedler and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac short, clearly written, well-illustrated lessons let you zero right in on that one practical task you need to figure out right now - and then let you get back to listening your favorite music, podcasts, and audiobooks on your iPod."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Compass American Guides American Southwest 3rd Edition written by Nancy Zimmerman and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic travel is hot this season, as more and more Americans discover the pleasure of packing up and hitting the road. Fodor's has the guides for every traveler in every region. With Fodor's Road Guide USA to get them there, Compass American for the history of the region, and Gold Guides for dining, lodging, and shopping options, your customers will never make a wrong turn. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Compass American Guides Pennsylvania 3rd Edition written by Douglas Root and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAJOR UPDATE! Text has been thoroughly revised and dramatically expanded. Compass American Guides: Pennsylvania 3rd Edition keeps pace with Philadelphia's boom and the tourist draws of Pennsylvania Dutch Country and the Civil War trail.
Download or read book Compass American Guides Pacific Northwest 3rd Edition written by John Doerper and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Compass Pacific Northwest covers everything there is to see and do -- plus gorgeous full-color photographs; a wealth of archival images; topical essays and literary extracts; detailed color maps; and capsule reviews of hotels and restaurants. These insider guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of Pacific Northwest.
Download or read book Race across America written by Charles B. Kastner and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-Fiction On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him his nickname—a white towel tied around his head, white shorts, and a white shirt—Gardner wore an American flag, a reminder to all who saw him run through the Jim Crow South that he was an American and the leader of the greatest footrace in the world. Kastner traces Gardner’s remarkable journey from his birth in 1897 in Birmingham, Alabama, to his success in Seattle, Washington, as one of the top long-distance runners in the region, and finally to his participation in two transcontinental footraces where he risked his life, facing a barrage of harassment for having the audacity to compete with white runners. Kastner shows how Gardner’s participation became a way to protest the endemic racism he faced, heralding the future of nonviolent efforts that would be instrumental to the civil rights movement. Shining a bright light on his extraordinary athletic accomplishments and his heroism on the dusty roads of America in the 1920s, Kastner gives Gardner and other black bunioneers the attention they so richly deserve.
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Download or read book Bunion Derby written by Charles B. Kastner and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3,400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby, as the press dubbed the event, was the brainchild of sports promoter Charles C. Pyle. He promised a $25,000 grand prize and claimed the competition would immortalize U.S. Highway Route 66, a 2,400-mile road, mostly unpaved, that subjected the runners to mountains, deserts, mud, and sandstorms, from Los Angeles to Chicago. The runners represented all walks of American life from immigrants to millionaires, with a peppering of star international athletes included by Pyle for publicity purposes. For eighty-four days, the men participated in this part footrace and part Hollywood production that incorporated a road show featuring football legend Red Grange, food concessions, vaudeville acts, sideshows, a portable radio station, and the world's largest coffeepot sponsored by Maxwell House serving ninety gallons of coffee a day. Drawn by hopes for a better future and dreams of fame, fortune, and glory, the bunioneers embarked on an exhaustive and grueling journey that would challenge their physical and psychological endurance to the fullest while Pyle struggled to keep his cross-country road show afloat. "In a wild grab for glory, a cast of nobodies saw hope in the dust: blacks who escaped the poverty and terror of the Old South; first-generation immigrants with their mother tongue thick on their lips; Midwest farm boys with leather-brown tans. These men were the 'shadow runners' men without fame, wealth, or sponsors, who came to Los Angeles to face the world's greatest runners and race walkers. This was a formidable field of past Olympic champions and professional racers that should have discouraged sane men from thinking they could win a transcontinental race to New York. Yet they came, flouting the odds. Charley Pyle's offer Of free food and lodging to anyone who would take up the challenge opened the race to men of limited means. For some, it was a cry from the psyche of no-longer-young men, seeking a last grasp at greatness or a summons to do the impossible. This pulled men on the wrong side of thirty from blue-collar jobs and families."--from the Preface "No writer 'owns' a swath of history the way Chuck Kastner 'owns' the wildly crazy C. C. Pyle Bunion Derbies. The inaugural race was a truly American epic: from its massive scope to the fact that it was dominated by a handful of second-rate runners who decided there was no future in continuing in the underdog role. Chuck's book makes you want to schedule your next vacation for Route 66, there to relive the zaniness and heroics of 1928."--Rich Benyo, editor, Marathon & Beyond Magazine "Bunion Derby's narrative arc transcends the academic approach one would expect from a university press."--Philip Damon, on the Peace Corps Writers website
Download or read book The Third City written by Larry Bennett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City—inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko—with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.
Download or read book Las Vegas written by Deke Castleman and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Compass American Guide celebrates the glitziest city on earth, from its notorious history to its blackjack and craps tables. Deke Castleman tells travelers how to get the most out of their Las Vegas vacation: where to eat, sleep, and be entertained on any budget. "An informational jackpot".--Houston Chronicle
Download or read book Compass American Guides Hawaii 5th Edition written by Moana Tregaskis and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Some chapters are organized according to topic. Others offer brief presentations of classical and contemporary sociologists from Karl Marx to Zygmunt Bauman and their perspectives on social life, including religion. Throughout the book, illustrations and examples are taken from several religious traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Wine Country written by John Doerper and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes accommodations, restaurants, and wineries in the region, provides tips on planning tours and drives, and discusses the art of winemaking.
Download or read book Old West Showdown written by Bill Markley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real lives of the historic figures in Old West Showdown are shrouded in controversy and myth. Was Jesse James a Southern Son fighting for the cause of the fallen Confederacy, or a blood-thirsty cutthroat justly pursued by the authorities? Was Billy the Kid a misunderstood youth or a cold-blooded killer? Did Buffalo Bill Cody truly ride for the Pony Express as a young man? Or, was he just a blowhard who trumped up his own past in an attempt to seem more heroic in the eyes of audiences attending his Wild West shows? In Old West Showdown, dueling authors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth draw on fact and folklore to present opposing viewpoints pertaining to controversies surrounding some of the most well-known characters and events in the history of the Old West.
Download or read book Virginia written by K. M. Kostyal and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 1996-12-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for visitors, history buffs and armchair travelers alike, this guide includes superb color photography, literary extracts and archival illustrations that create a vivid portrait of the state. irigina's eventful history and traditional culture unfolds on Confederate battlegrounds a well as on tours of historic homes of some of America's greatest patriots and presidents, and is compiled by history timelines. Includes color photos.
Download or read book Oregon written by Judy Jewell and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Compass Oregon explores the unique culture and history of this Pacific Northwest state in depth. The guide includes essays on mushroom hunting and fly fishingas well as all new information on restaurants, hotels, and Portland's nightlife.
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