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  • Democracy's Rebirth

    The View from Chicago

    de Dick Simpson ...
    Dick Simpson draws upon his fifty-year career as a legislator, campaign strategist, and government advisor to examine the challenges confronting Americans in their struggle to build the United States as a multiracial, multiethnic democracy. Using Chicago as an example, Simpson examines how the political, racial, economic, and social inequalities dividing the nation play out in our neighborhoods ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Rogues, Rebels, And Rubber Stamps

    The Politics Of The Chicago City Council, 1863 To The Present

    de Dick Simpson ...
    In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war. At the same time, the author provides a window into the broader struggle for democracy and justice.Simpson points out that through analyzing city council floor fights, battles at the ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Chicago’s Modern Mayors

    From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot

    Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the cityChicago’s transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this transition beginning with Harold Washington’s 1983 election: Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emmanuel, and Lori Lightfoot. Though the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Winning Elections in the 21st Century

    A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes, you can! And the book she recommends for candidates, campaign staff, volunteers, and citizens is Winning Elections in the 21st Century, a handbook for anyone who wants to know how campaigns are run and won today.Written by two longtime ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • "Far, Far From Home"

    The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

    In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    A Corruption of Blood

    de Ambrose Parry ...
    Narrado por Bryan Dick, Cathleen McCarron ...
    Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson

    Completo

    12 hora 6 minutos

    Family secrets, sinister murders, a divided Edinburgh—the next thrilling medical mystery in the historical crime series featuring duo Will Raven and Sarah FisherEdinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • African Democracy and Development

    Challenges for Post-Conflict African Nations

    Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular countries that have faced conflict (civil wars and genocide) and are now in the process of rebuilding their political, economic, social, and educational institutions. The countries that are addressed in the book include: Rwanda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Voices of the Dead

    de Ambrose Parry ...
    Narrado por Bryan Dick, Cathleen McCarron ...
    Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson

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    13 hora 2 minutos

    The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery seriesEdinburgh, 1853.In a city of science, discovery can be deadly …In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery, the public’s appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other unexplained phenomena.Dr Will Raven is wary of the shadowlands that lie between progress and quackery, but Sarah ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Art of Dying

    Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson

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    11 hora 46 minutos

    The next in the series of gripping historical crime novels from bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa Haetzman, set in nineteenth-century EdinburghEdinburgh, 1849. Hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. And a whispering campaign seeks to paint Dr James Simpson, pioneer of medical chloroform, as a murderer ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    The Way of All Flesh

    de Ambrose Parry ...
    Narrado por Louise Brealey, Bryan Dick ...
    Series series Raven, Fisher, and Simpson

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    11 hora 44 minutos

    A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, cowritten by bestselling author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Dr Marisa HaetzmanEdinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson’s housemaid, and has all of Raven’s intelligence but none of his privileges.As bodies begin to appear ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Herman Melville: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Three Full-Cast Dramatisations including Moby-Dick

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    5 hora 3 minutos

    BBC adaptations of three works by Herman Melville, plus bonus biographical programmes about his life and workBorn in 1819, Herman Melville spent his early twenties at sea. He wrote four successful novels based on his experiences, but his subsequent fiction failed to sell, and he spent the rest of his life in literary obscurity. It was not until 100 years after his birth that his works were ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    The Death of Shame

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    Narrado por Bryan Dick, Cathleen McCarron ...

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    12 hora 28 minutos

    1854, Edinburgh.Respectable faces hide private sins.Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven’s emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD