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Lords of the Levee
In the early twentieth century, John Coughlin and Mike Kenna ruled Chicago's First Ward, the lucrative lakefront territory and nerve center of...
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The Black Seasons
When six-year-old Michal Glowinski first heard the adults around him speak of the ghetto, he understood only that the word was connected with...
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The Second Book
An award-winning collection of stories from a promising young Bosnian writer The protagonists of The Second Book, are connected vertically and...
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Bridges of Memory: Chicago
Co-published with the DuSable Museum of African American History
In their first great migration to Chicago that began during World War I, African...
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Kellogg on Biotechnology
Biotechnology is the new capital. The stakeholders in this revolution are many: the scientists who generate the knowledge in fields where the pace is...
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Perverzion
Winner of the 2005 American Association of Ukrainian Studies Translation Award
What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky--poet, provocateur, and...
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The Kleist Variations: Three Plays
In this collection, Eric Bentley presents Concord, a comedy adapted from Kleist's The Broken Jug; The Fall of the Amazons, a tragedy written in...
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400 Kilometres
400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor's hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a...
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Challenging the Daley Machine
In 1955, south-sider Leon Despres was elected to the Chicago City Council-the same year that Paddy Bauler famously uttered that "Chicago...
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The Stony Dance
Widely considered the greatest Russian modernist novel, Andrei Bely's Petersburg has until now eluded the critical attention that a book of its...
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A Room in California
Southern California is one of two significant places in Laurence Goldstein's fourth collection of poems. A native of Los Angeles, the author...
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Three Plays
Famous for her poetry and infamous for her bohemian lifestyle, as well as her association with political radicals, Else Lasker-SchÜler (1869-1945)...
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Politicizing Magic
We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet...
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Time Driven
Elaborating the fundamental concept of Trieb, or drive, Freud outlines two basic types of conflict that at once disturb and organize mental life: the...
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Glory, Darkness, Light
With roots in the Civil War, the Union League Club of Chicago grew up, prospered, and suffered alongside its city. Glory, Darkness, Light: A History...
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America’s Lawyer-Presidents
How have the legal careers of twenty-five American presidents shaped their presidencies? Of America's forty-three presidents, twenty-five have been...
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The Grand Prize and Other Stories
Daniela Crasnaru is one of the most prominent poets and writers in her native Romania. Once a vocal foe of the Ceaucescu regime, Crasnaru was...
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Dos Passos - A Life
A New York Times Notable Book
He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called "the...
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And Yet I Still Have Dreams
And Yet I Still Have Dreams is a departure from many Holocaust memoirs. Angry, pugnacious, contemptuous of the stereotypes found in some survivor...
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A Voice - Selected Poems
Shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation
Anzhelina Polonskaya is considered one of the freshest voices...
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The Ethics of History
What is implied by "ethics of history"? The authors of this volume, internationally renowned philosophers and intellectual historians,...
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The Second City Almanac of Improvisation
It all began in a converted Chinese laundry on Chicago's north side on a cold December night in 1959. No one could have known that by the next...
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Whereverville
Between 1954 and 1975, Newfoundland's outport communities were encouraged to abandon themselves in exchange for financial aid and the promise of...
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The Wild Region in Life-History
A tour de force by one of Hungary's most interesting contemporary philosophers The Wild Region in Life-History outlines a phenomenological...
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