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  • Albert Kahn's Daylight

    An Architect Reconsidered

    by Chris Meister, Thomas A. Klug ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    The architectural legacy of Albert Kahn established on the global stage.In this new authoritative biography, author Chris Meister brings a fresh perspective to the legacy of internationally renowned Detroit architect Albert Kahn, utilizing a broad range of newly seen archival resources. In Detroit, Kahn's daylight factories and commercial designs have shaped the distinctive workplaces and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coach of Champions

    D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit's Track Stars

    by Keith D. Wunderlich, David L. Holmes Jr., Thomas A. Klug ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    An advocate of diversity, initiator of self-confidence, and driving force behind winners.A Selection of the Detroit Free Press Marathon Runners!Finalist, Best Book Award, American Book Fest!Honored with a Legislative Tribute by Michigan State Representative, Joe Tate!In an era rife with racism and antisemitism, Wayne State University athletic director and track coach D.L. Holmes emerged as a first ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rust Belt Reporter

    A Memoir

    by John Gallagher, Thomas A. Klug ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    The decline and resurgence of a storied Midwestern city as seen through the eyes of a seasoned journalist, union activist, and Detroit devotee.Winner, Saginaw Valley State University's 2025-2026 Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Award for LiteratureReflecting on his life's work as a reporter, including thirty-two years with the Detroit Free Press, journalist John Gallagher merges memoir with an ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit

    by Thomas A. Klug ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Detroit's Arab and Chaldean communities in the balance between cultural vitality and precarity.Detroit's Arab and Chaldean communities are now over a century old. Their neighborhoods, business districts, and cultural influence continue to grow. Whether Muslim or Christian, Yemeni, Iraqi, Palestinian, or Lebanese, these Detroiters are building new lives and new worlds in distinctive spaces that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Labor

    How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

    by Rosemary Feurer, Chad Pearson, Michael Dennis, Elizabeth Esch, Dolores E Janiewski, Thomas A Klug, Peter Rachleff, David Roediger, Howard Stanger0, Robert Woodrum1 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed unions. Other contributors examine the anti-labor movement against a backdrop of larger forces, such as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Fallingwater Rising

    Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

    by Franklin Toker ...
    Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Somalis in Minnesota

    by Ahmed I. Yusuf ...
    Series series The People of Minnesota
    The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The People's Tycoon

    Henry Ford and the American Century

    by Steven Watts ...
    How a Michigan farm boy became the richest man in America is a classic, almost mythic tale, but never before has Henry Ford’s outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as it is in this engaging and superbly researched biography. The real Henry Ford was a tangle of contradictions. He set off the consumer revolution by producing a car affordable to the masses, all the while lamenting the moral ... Read more

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  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 1: Political Economy and International Relations

    by Samer Abboud, Aurora Sottimano, Najib Ghadbian, Amanda P. Terc, Paulo Pinto, Rania Maktabi, Myriam Ababsa, Carsten Wieland, Mohammad Kamel Doraï, Martine Zeuthen, Valentina Napolitano ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics. On the one hand, it seemed everything would stay the same: an Asad on top of a political system controlled by secret services and Baathist one-party rule. On the other hand, it looked like everything ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    by Robert McCarter ...
    Series Book 7 - Critical Lives
    The life and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) have been much-studied, yet there is a consistent division between analyses of his architecture, which exclude any discussion of his daily life, and books that tell the often sensational tale of his life, with barely a passing reference to the buildings themselves. The result is that, despite the large number of volumes on Wright, the ... Read more

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  • The Third Coast

    When Chicago Built the American Dream

    by Thomas L. Dyja ...
    **Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland PrizeA critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture**Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

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