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  • Every Goddamn Day

    A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago

    de Neil Steinberg ...
    A daily celebration of Chicago's history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining.Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city so rich with history, every day is the anniversary of some storied historical or cultural moment, whether it's the dedication of the Pablo Picasso sculpture downtown on August 15, or the arrest of Rod Blagojevich at his Ravenswood home on December 9, or a ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • You Were Never in Chicago

    de Neil Steinberg ...
    Series series Chicago Visions and Revisions
    This "rollicking newspaperman's memoir" offers a personal tour of Chicago's cultural history and makes "a strong case for Second City exceptionalism" ( The New York Times).In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Drunkard

    A Hard-Drinking Life

    de Neil Steinberg ...
    "A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."—Chicago MagazineChicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Art of Backscratching in Chicago

    Driving with Ed McElroy

    de Neil Steinberg ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    “Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and well-connected around the city, doing favors and calling them in, for decades. Helping a young ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • The Art of Backscratching in Chicago

    Driving with Ed McElroy

    de Neil Steinberg ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    “Ed McElroy, clear of eye, sound of mind, and eighty-three years of age . . . guides his black Cadillac down Halsted Street.” So begins longtime Chicago journalist Neil Steinberg’s nuanced homage to Ed McElroy: an old-school, behind-the-scenes backscratcher who has driven the rich, powerful, and well-connected around the city, doing favors and calling them in, for decades. Helping a young ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • Out of the Wreck I Rise

    A Literary Companion to Recovery

    de Neil Steinberg, Sara Bader ...
    “There’s still time to change things.”—Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing WorldAddiction is easy to fall into and hard to escape. It destroys the lives of individuals, and has a devastating cost to society. The National Institute of Health estimates seventeen million adults in the United States are alcoholics or have a serious problem with alcohol. At the same time, the country is seeing entire ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Bodyology - The Curious Science of Our Bodies

    de Mosaic Science, Rose George, Rhodri Marsden, Cynthia Graber, Neil Steinberg, Ian Birrell ...
    Bodyology: The Curious Science of the Human BodyEver wondered what it's really like to be struck by lightning — what happens to your skin, nerves, heart rhythm, and brain in a split second? What it means to lose your sense of smell (anosmia), why it can vanish after illness or injury, and what recovery can look like? Whether we'll ever find a genuine cure for baldness and hair loss? Or how a ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Field on Fire

    The Future of Environmental History

    de Mark D. Hersey, Ted Steinberg, Marco Armiero, Kevin C. Armitage, Brian C. Black, Lisa M. Brady, Karl Boyd Brooks, Robert Wellman Campbell, Brian Allen Drake0, Sterling Evans1, Sara M. Gregg2, Shen Hou3, Neil M. Maher4, Christof Mauch5, Daniel T. Rodgers6, Adam Rome7, Edmund Russell8, Mikko Saikku9, Frank Zelko0 ...
    A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

    A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and Things

    de Mark Jacob, Stephan Benzkofer, Chicago Tribune ...
    A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more.For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of subjects. This volume collects the best of these columns, offering readers obscure, fascinating facts on ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Only in New York

    An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City

    de Sam Roberts ...
    A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind ( Publishers Weekly).Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • One Summer

    America, 1927

    de Bill Bryson ...
    **A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.**The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Mortuary Confidential:

    de Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie ...
    From scary to heartwarming and hilarious, an assortment of behind-the-scenes, true stories about life as an undertaker.From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell—and a special way of telling them.In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, ... Leer más

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