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Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View
It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hidden History of Uptown and Edgewater
If there's any place in Chicago that's been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown. Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Hidden History of Lincoln Park
Before Lincoln Park cemented its trendy reputation, plenty of odd and unruly history managed to settle into its foundation. A Viking ship, mob henchmen and ladies of the evening all took up residence in the same part of town where Dwight L. Moody went from selling soles to saving souls. Thanks to a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Key Case Law Rules for Government Contract Formation
Go Beyond the FAR!The guidance contained in the almost 2000 pages of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the various agency supplements are just a part of the resources government acquisition professionals need to do their jobs effectively. Accessing and understanding case law is equally importan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe: Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street
by Lawrence Block • John Lescroart • Marvin Kaye • Mack Reynolds • Loren D. Estleman • Jon L. Breen • Robert Goldsborough • Robert Lopresti • Marion Mainwaring • Dave Zeltserman • Thomas Narcejac • Patrick Butler • William Brittain • O. X. Rusett • Frank Littler • Michael Bracken • Joseph GoodrichStories that pay tribute to Rex Stout&’s legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Family Care and Social Capital: Transitions in Informal Care
Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Teaching Secondary Geography
by John Butler • Malcolm McInerney • Susan Caldis • Stephen Cranby • Alaric Maude • Susanne Jones • Michael Patrick Law • Rebecca NicholasGeography is not only the study of the surface of the planet and the exploration of spatial and human - environment relationships, but also a way of thinking about the world. Guided by the Australian Curriculum and the Professional Standards for Teaching School Geography (GEOGstandards), Teaching Se... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Queer Twin Cities
by Michael Franklin • Jennifer L. Pierce • Patrick Ryan • Kevin P. Murphy • Jason Ruiz • Susan Craddock • Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project Staff • Alex T. Urquhart • Larry Knopp • Charlotte Albrecht • Pamela Butler • Brandon Lacy CmaposThe Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Kansas City's Parks and Boulevards
by Dona Boley • Patrick AlleyA fast-growing frontier community transformed itself into a beautiful urban model of parks and boulevards. In 1893, East Coast newspapers were calling Kansas City "the filthiest in the United States." The drainage of many houses emptied into gullies and cesspools. There was no garbage collection ser... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
It Started in Wisconsin
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings--and pizzas--to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)
by Saskia Sassen • Pedro Noguera • Judith Butler • Craig Calhoun • Wendy Brown • Thomas J. Sugrue • Douglas S. Massey • Fred Turner • Margaret Levi • William Julius Wilson • Linda Gordon • Richard Sennett • Steven Lukes • Michelle Jackson • Victor Pickard • Patrick Sharkey • Philip Gorski • David B. Grusky • Jefferson Cowie • Scott J. Shapiro • Lisa Wade • Jack Halberstam • Oona A. Hathaway • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Shamus Khan • Alina Das • Michelle Wilde Anderson • Gretchen Blake • Richard Shrum • Tanya Marie Luhrmann • Harel. Shapira • Ashley Farmer • Professor of Sociology Michele LamontOn Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences dras... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Innovation, Research and Development Management
In today’s business environment, as organizations constantly seek to growth and develop through the optimization of their innovative and creative potential, understanding the critical issues and management practices in R & D is essential. This book provides a critical revaluation of the state of the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Let History into the Mathematics Classroom
by Évelyne Barbin • Jean-Paul Guichard • Marc Moyon • Patrick Guyot • Catherine Morice-Singh • Frédéric Métin • Martine Bühler • Dominique Tournès • Renaud Chorlay • Gérard HamonThis book brings together 10 experiments which introduce historical perspectives into mathematics classrooms for 11 to 18-year-olds. The authors suggest that students should not only read ancient texts, but also should construct, draw and manipulate. The different chapters refer to ancient Greek, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Stephen Adkins • Nuria Alburquerque • Maria Luisa Badenes • Luciana Baldoni • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • J. R. Botella • Patrick Brown • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Luis A. Cañas • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Yuval Cohen • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Abhaya Dandekar • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • Kate Evans • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Vicente Vicente • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • Henryk Flachowsky • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Julie Graham • Dennis J. Gray • Magda-Viola Hanke • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Ossama Kodad • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Óscar Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Leandro Pena • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Alain Rival • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • Nicolas Roux • Eddo Rugini • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020