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Winner of: 2014 Arab American Book Award, Children/Young Adult Category Many Americans, educators included, mistakenly believe all Arabs share the same culture, language, and religion, and have only...

Author: Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene HirschfelderPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2009Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556528027ISBN-13:...

Author: Paul HirschPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 369 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641605243ISBN-13: 9781641605243

Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really...

In 1609, on a voyage to resupply England's troubled Jamestown colony, the Sea Venture was caught in a hurricane and shipwrecked off the coast of Bermuda. The tale of its marooned survivors eventually...

Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of...

Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects And Ruminations On The Art Of Living DangerouslyAuthor: William GurstellePublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2009Number of Pages: 224...

Celebrates the lesser-known lives and contributions of early African-American men and women, in a volume that features such complementary activities as recipes for colonial foods and advice for...

Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel,...

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students Winner, 2022 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Award, Fall 2022 These 15 women work with animals on land, air, and sea. Corina Newsome...

Twenty-five activities support an overview of the science of archaeology as well as some of the secrets it has revealed from ancient civilizations throughout the world. Original.Author: Richard...

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, And More Dynamite DevicesAuthor: William GurstellePublisher: Chicago Review...

Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography--newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and...

Beatrix Potter forged her own creative path to independence, fame, and financial success. Peter Rabbit, Hunca Munca, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck--many readers are familiar...

Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece "East of Eden," but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia. Born in the prisons of California in the...

Author: David NelsonPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Oct 04, 2022Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641608366ISBN-13: 9781641608367

Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with more than thirty top ten singles and fifteen consecutive #1 hits. Inventor of the Bakersfield Sound, he was hugely popular not only with...

Most North Americans would rather squish a bug than eat it. But roasted grubs are a favorite in Australia, the Batswana eat live termites, and stir-fried dragonflies are a delicacy in Indonesia. More...

Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old--and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while...

Author: Robert Burke. WarrenPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 20, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Biography & AutobiographyISBN-10:...

Bringing to life the heady days of the American Revolution through the eyes of a heroine who played a brave and dramatic part in the conflict, this novel follows Celia Garth, a Charleston native, as...

As soon as early humans began to scratch images on cave walls, they began to create maps. And while these first drawings were used to find hunting grounds or avoid danger, they later developed into...

Whenever Lisa Bailey sees a particularly striking person, she wonders, "What is going on with their skull?" It all started after Bailey took the FBI's Forensic Facial Imaging Course and was...

"This book promises an introduction to 15 women climate champions, but it delivers far more...the women's stories offer hope and inspiration." --Booklist Starred Review These 15 contemporary...

These 15 contemporary climate champions are on the frontlines of science to create a sustainable future on Earth. They are climate scientists, journalists, professors, academics, researchers, and...

Author: Darla WordenPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2023Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641608986ISBN-13: 9781641608985

Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and...

First published as Cowboy song: the authorised biography of Philip Lynott in the United Kingdom by Constable.Author: Graeme ThomsonPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: May 01, 2017Number...

Publisher's description: Exploring the scientific principles behind everyday recipes, this informative blend of lab book and cookbook reveals that cooks are actually chemists. Following or modifying...

Discovering Great Artists is a creative collection of easy art-appreciation activities for children. Kids will find 110 fun and unique projects to experience the styles and techniques of the great...