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Book The Book of Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Shackleton
  • Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN : 3849684822
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Book of Chicago written by Robert Shackleton and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1920 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his facile, chatty way the author tells of the city's marvelous growth, taking us from the Loop through that Olympus of Chicago, the Lake Shore Drive to Oak Park and South Chicago. The landmarks of the early settlers and the “beauty spots” of the modern city are all described in such a manner that they cannot fail to appeal to even the most conservative of Easterners. Mr. Shackleton in all his books of the cities, shows each one distinctly; its characteristics, institutions, literary traditions, landmarks, and its people. Nothing is too small for him to chronicle—their habits of speech, their eating, ancestor worship. In each city he manages to discover many odd corners not found by the usual sightseer. His is a sympathetic, clear-eyed, often humorous interpretation of the city in each case.

Book My Blue Heaven

    Book Details:
  • Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2002-05
  • ISBN : 9780226583006
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book My Blue Heaven written by Becky M. Nicolaides and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Quest for Independence, 1920-19401. Building Independence in Suburbia2. Peopling the Subur 3. The Texture of Everyday Life4. The Politics of IndependencePart II. Closing Ranks, 1940-19655. "A Beautiful Place"6. The Suburban Good Life Arrives7. The Racializing of Local PoliticsEpilogueAcronyms for Collections and ArchivesNotes Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book L A  Chic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan V. Ingram
  • Publisher : Urban Chic
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781783209347
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book L A Chic written by Susan V. Ingram and published by Urban Chic. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is undergoing a makeover. Leaving behind its image as all freeways and suburbs, sunshine and noir, it is reinventing itself for the twenty-first century as a walkable, pedestrian friendly, ecologically healthy, and global urban hotspot of fashion and style, while driving initiatives to rejuvenate its downtown core, public spaces, and ethnic neighborhoods. By providing a locational history of Los Angeles fashion and style mythologies through the lens of institutions such as manufacturing, museums, and designers and readings of contemporary film, literature and new media, L.A. Chic provides an in-depth analysis of the social changes, urban processes, desires, and politics that inform how the good life is being re-imagined in Los Angeles. Throughout the book, Susan Ingram and Markus Reisenleitner dig up submerged and marginalized elements of the city's cultural history but also tap into the global circuits of urban affect that are being mobilized for promoting L.A. as an example for the global, multi-ethnic city of the future. Engagingly written, highly visual, and featuring numerous photographs throughout, L.A. Chic will appeal to any culturally inclined reader with an interest in Los Angeles, its cultural history, and modern urban style.

Book Field Study

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chet'la Sebree
  • Publisher : FSG Originals
  • Release : 2021-06-01
  • ISBN : 0374722641
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Field Study written by Chet'la Sebree and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets "Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others—a meditation on desire, race, loss and survival." --Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem I am society’s eraser shards—bits used to fix other people’s sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet’la Sebree attempts a field study of herself. Scientifically, field studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree’s control over her own field study unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers—Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom—that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. “Even as I accrue these notes,” Sebree writes, “I’m still not sure I’ve found the pulse.” A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America—sometimes all at once—Field Study throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific study like no other.

Book The Official Railway Guide

Download or read book The Official Railway Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Great West

Download or read book Guide to the Great West written by Joshua L. Tracy and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Railway Equipment Register

Download or read book The Official Railway Equipment Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Market Day in Provence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michèle de La Pradelle
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2006-04
  • ISBN : 0226141845
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Market Day in Provence written by Michèle de La Pradelle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levels-structural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence.

Book Quarterly Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act

Download or read book Quarterly Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act written by Herbert Confield Lust and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Railroad Manual for the United States and the Dominion

Download or read book American Railroad Manual for the United States and the Dominion written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FCC Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1944 pages

Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Variety of Integral Ecologies

Download or read book The Variety of Integral Ecologies written by Sam Mickey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and biophysical sciences. In the current era of increasing planetary interconnectedness, ecological theories and practices are called to become more inclusive, complex, and comprehensive. The diverse contributions to this book offer a range of integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities and sciences and help us understand and respond to today’s ecological challenges. The contributors provide detailed analyses of assorted integral ecologies, drawing on such founding figures and precursors as Thomas Berry, Leonardo Boff, Holmes Rolston III, Ken Wilber, and Edgar Morin. Also included is research across the social sciences, biophysical sciences, and humanities discussing multiple worldviews and perspectives related to integral ecologies. The Variety of Integral Ecologies is both an accessible guide and an advanced supplement to the growing research for a more comprehensive understanding of ecological issues and the development of a peaceful, just, and sustainable planetary civilization.

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book N W  Ayer   Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory

Download or read book N W Ayer Son s American Newspaper Annual and Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchant Vessels of the United States

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 2016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its     Regular Session

Download or read book Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its Regular Session written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patterson s American Educational Directory

Download or read book Patterson s American Educational Directory written by Homer L. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: