Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Junk
Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away.
When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late...
Elizabeth I, the People's Queen
Her Life and Times, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
One of England’s most fascinating monarchs is brought to life in this hands-on study for young minds. Combining projects, pictures, and sidebars with an authoritative biography, children will develop an understanding of the Reformation, Shakespearean England, and how Elizabeth’s 45-year reign...
Audacity of Hops
The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Discover the underdog story of how America came to dominate beer stylistically in The Audacity of Hops, the first book on American craft beer's history. First published in May 2013, this updated, fully revised edition offers the most thorough picture yet of one of the most interesting and lucrative...
Oddball Ohio
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
This off-the-wall travel guide presents an Ohio odder than imagined. It wastes no time describing Cedar Point or suggesting scenic bike rides through the Hocking Hills; instead, this entertaining travel companion directs out-of-state adventurers and Buckeye state residents to the home of the world's...
Race to Hawaii
The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast. But almost a century ago, the first flights to Hawaii required a nerve-wracking and uncertain 26-hour journey to isolated and elusive islands located in the middle of the world's largest ocean. Pilots prayed they would encounter...
Immunity
How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were the same as white blood cells that traveled to the site...
Crying at Movies
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this comic, witty memoir, John Manderino shows us how the pivotal points of his life have been enmeshed with movie moments. "Crying at Movies" presents thirty-eight succinct chapters, each bearing the title of a film. It is at once a love-letter to an art form and a humorous appreciation of the distinctions between movie scenes and life's realities.
Oddball Minnesota
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Land of the world’s largest prairie chicken, birthplace of Spam, and home of the world’s oldest rock, this is Minnesota, where summers are short, winters are long, and back-road wonders abound. This entertaining guide wastes no time with descriptions of scenic lakes, pristine bike trails, or quaint...
Industrial Revolution for Kids
The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This blend of authoritative historic overview and human interest stories recounts one of the most important eras in American history This educational activity book introduces young readers to the Industrial Revolution through the people, places, and inventions of the time, from the incredibly wealthy...
The Wright Brothers for Kids
How They Invented the Airplane, 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
This activity book tells the amazing true story of how two bicycle-making brothers from Ohio, with no more than high-school educations, accomplished a feat that forever changed the world. At a time when most people still hadn’t ridden in an automobile, Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first powered,...
London's Burning
True Adventures on the Front Lines of Punk, 19761977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The summer of 1976 through the summer of 1977 was the most significant year in British rock history, when punk rock rose from a murmur on the streets to a roar of defiance that still reverberates today. This collection of vivid memories of concerts and cultural flash points focuses on what was happening...
Nine Lives of a Black Panther
A Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles–based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay...
by A.F. Gillotti
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In the novel George Evans, the title character and his friend Charles Fletcher both aspire to live the alluring life of an international banker in 1960s London.
Pirate Women
The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts....