Chicago Review Press

Author: Lisa Bany-WintersPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2012Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1613740735ISBN-13: 9781613740736

Having written about the street gang lifestyle in "My Bloody Life," the author describes how hard it is to escape gang life and the lasting damage of physical, mental, and sexual abuse.Author:...

Bird-loving Americans share a common problem: squirrels! These fast, greedy, incredibly crafty, fluffy-tailed rodents pillage birdfeeders before owners' very eyes. For 25 years, Outwitting Squirrels...

One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America's public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book...

Author: Laura Sook DuncombePublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2019Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641602228ISBN-13: 9781641602228

Plantology guides young nature enthusiasts on a journey into the world of plants and the role they play in our lives. Full of colorful photos and illustrations, this fun and interactive resource...

Heroism and horror abound in these true stories of 16 great explorers who journeyed to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, two exquisite and unique ice wildernesses. Recounted are the exciting North...

Preston Tucker And His Battle To Build The Car Of TomorrowAuthor: Steve LehtoPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2018Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Prine on Prine definitively presents the iconic American songwriter's songwriter across the many eras of his celebrated life, career, and songs in his own words. John Prine hated giving interviews,...

When engineers are faced with an impossible problem, they don't quit. They look for solutions. These 15 women are coders and engineers who have faced impossible problems and found solutions. They...

In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day...

Author: David C. SchwebelPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 20, 2022Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/Family & RelationshipsISBN-10: 1641607920ISBN-13:...

"Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling." --Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country In 1981, ambitious...

This collection of over 50 years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close...

All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before,...

Author: Ian MacDonaldPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: September 01, 2007Number of Pages: 544 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1556527330ISBN-13: 9781556527333

Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the picture of tranquility to any passerby. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home to retrieve...

Two veteran teachers explain how damaging technology overuse and misuse has been to kids and show how screen saturation at home and school has created a wide range of cognitive and social deficits in...

They are America's forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street...

Superpod : Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific NorthwestAuthor: Nora NickumPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Presents a guide to wilderness survival in both common and unusual situations, including how to build a shelter, find water and food, deal with dangerous animals, and navigate in the wild.Author:...

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of a serial killer. The story has been the subject of short stories, novels, and the television series American Horror Story. But the full story...

Author: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris StrugatskyPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Apr 18, 2023Number of Pages: 236 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1641606789ISBN-13:...

How many female Viking warriors does it take to make a fact? When archaeologist Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson discovers that the bones contained in the most significant Viking warrior grave ever...

Teaches about the Civil War from the secession debates to Appomattox, by means of activities like making butternut dye, decoding wigwag, and baking hardtack. Includes a resource section with a...

The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage ReservationAuthor: Dennis McAuliffe, Jr.Publisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Nov 10, 2020Number of Pages: 350...

Author: Jake S. FriedmanPublisher: Chicago Review PressPublication Date: Sep 12, 2023Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0913705179ISBN-13: 9780913705179

In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman. Finding that the dead woman had just undergone...

The magnum opus of Russia's greatest science fiction novelists translated into English for the first time Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction...

Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC--Tltle page verso.Author: Conrad Richter, David...