Chicago Review Press: 838 books
98% Funky Stuff
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Revealing the warm and astonishing story of an influential jazz legend, this personal narrative tells the story of a man’s journey from a Southern upbringing to a career touring the world to play for adoring fans. It tells how James Brown first discovered the Parker brothers—Melvin, the drummer,...
Thomas Edison for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps...
Fizz
How Soda Shook Up the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed in on Prohibition,...
by Steve Lehto, Steve Lehto, Jay Leno
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first...
Songs in the Key of Z
The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston,...
The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide
Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Preparing independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered, this guide demystifies issues such as developing a concept, founding a film company, obtaining financing, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen...
Citizen Lane
Defending Our Rights in the Courts, the Capitol, and the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A fascinating memoir . . . well documented, dramatic, and brilliantly crafted.” -Robert K. Tanenbaum, first deputy counsel, congressional investigation committee on JFK assassination Freedom Rider, friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dick Gregory’s vice-presidential running mate, legal defense...
Lay This Body Down
The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves-and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using peons,” but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence. Enlisting...
Do I Look Like an ATM?
A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Youth financial education is an urgent issue, and author Sabrina Lamb believes that African American parents first must reeducate themselves about finances to make sure the next generation does not fall into the spending trap that can be a family legacy. The lack of a healthy financial education has...
Superman vs. Hollywood
How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Tinseltown's fascination with the comic icon is detailed in this book, encompassing all the behind-the-scenes machinations that helped shape Superman into a screen legend-and all the derailed projects that have vilified everyone involved. These newly uncovered stories about the odyssey of bringing...
Tour:Smart
And Break the Band
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
From packing the right equipment to keeping enough gas in the tank to get home, every aspect of making a successful tour with a band is addressed in this comprehensive guide. More than 100 luminaries and leading organizations from the world of touring-among them Chris Connelly, Henry Rollins, the...
Dirty South
OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive interviews with the genre’s prominent players take many forms—watching rappers “make it rain”...
How to Rap 2
Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this sequel to How to Rap, techniques that have not previously been explained—such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns—are thoroughly broken down and examined, arming readers with additional tools for their rapping repertoire. Filled with interviews from hip-hop’s...
Detroit
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit*: A Biography* takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's...