Chicago Review Press imprint: 770 books
Feral Cities
Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets and homes with. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails...
American Daredevil
The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the World's First Celebrity Travel Writer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With a polished walking stick and neatly pressed trousers, Richard Halliburton served as an intrepid globetrotting guide for millions of Americans in the 1920s and '30s. Readers waited with bated breath for each new article and book he wrote. During his career, Halliburton climbed the Matterhorn,...
A Mythic Obsession
The World of Dr. Evermor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world’s largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he discovered his alter ego: Dr. Evermor. With the full participation of Tom and Eleanor Every, Every’s...
This Noble Woman
Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The singular biography of a forgotten abolitionist and educator for young adults
Frederick Douglass dismissed Myrtilla's plan to open a school for African American girls in the slaveholding South as "reckless, almost to the point of madness." But Myrtilla Miner, the daughter of poor white farmers...
Her Next Chapter
How Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Can Help Girls Navigate Malicious Media, Risky Relationships, Girl Gossip, and So Much More
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A guide to using book clubs to open up dialogue about and explore issues facing young girls today
Mother-daughter book clubs are a great way to encourage your child’s reading and for girls and moms to bond with each other while also socializing with friends, but they can do much...
Madman and the Assassin
The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity...
William Walker's Wars
How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and other countries, in hopes of taking them over. Known as military filibusters, the goal was to seize territory to create new independent...
The Mole People
Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.
Once a King, Always a King
The Unmaking of a Latin King
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a normal” life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto once a king, always a king” rings true and...
Oddball Wisconsin
A Guide to 400 Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Updated and even stranger, this new edition boasts more than 400 unique destinations for tourists looking for attractions off the beaten path. Bizarre locations and landmarks include Chainsaw Gordy’s Garden of Saws, Smokey Bear’s head, the World’s Largest Soup Kettle, the Toilet Bowl Parade,...
by Barry Mazor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This enhanced e-book includes 49 of the greatest songs Ralph Peer was involved with, from groundbreaking numbers that changed the history of recorded music to revelatory obscurities, all linked to the text so that the reader can hear the music while reading about it. This is the first biography of...
The Trial of Levi Weeks
Or the Manhattan Well Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
n 1799, the murder of a young woman caused a terrific stir in the city of New York. The victim was Gulielma Sands who, on 22 December, left the boardinghouse where she lived, never to return. Her bruised body was found several days later in the Manhattan Well, a 20-minute carriage ride from her home....
by Ed Sobey
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2007
With more than 160 entries detailing everything from the junk buried in desk drawers to that mysterious box blinking away in the coat closet, this practical guide navigates through modern office technology. Each entry includes a functional description of a device (what it is and how it works) as well...
Lady Q
The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
This is a raw and powerful memoir not only of one woman’s struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age five Sonia Rodriguez’s stepfather began to abuse her; at 10...