Agate Publishing: 143 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Richard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and finding innovative ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate...
Ramblers
Loyola Chicago 1963 - The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Today basketball is played above the rim” by athletes of all backgrounds and colors. But 50 years ago it was a floor-bound game, and the opportunities it offered for African-Americans were severely limited.
A key turning point was 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago took the NCAA...
Improvise
Unconventional Career Advice from an Unlikely CEO
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This year alone, 3.2 million U.S. students will graduate from college. Unprecedented percentages of them will move back home, and many will be unable to obtain a job in their fields of study. Improvise is an inspiring story of how Fred Cook followed an unusual yet fascinating path from young adulthood...
by Kiese Laymon
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Long Division includes two distinct but tightly interwoven stories--one called "All Things Considered," the other "Long Division." In the first, it's March 2012: 14-year-old Citoyen "City" Coldson and his nemesis, LaVander Peeler, become the first black male duo to win...
by Denise Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
From award-winning actress Denise Nicholas: a ten-year anniversary reissue of her powerful and dramatic coming of age story set in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Freshwater Road has been called one of the best novels written about the Civil Rights Movement. Nicholas herself has been...
by Kiese Laymon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Elon Musk, the South Africanborn entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future...
by Dempsey Travis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be able to do it with the same command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, emulates the best works of Studs Terkel - portraying the African...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
When Carlos Slim claimed the top spot on Forbes’s annual list of the world’s richest people in 2010, it was the first time since 1994 that the spot wasn’t occupied by an American and, even more impressively, the first time that a person from a developing country topped the list. Although Slim...
10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything
A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
“Guaranteed to make you the smartest person in the room! One problem: you can’t stop reading this clever, amazing assortment of upscale trivia.” —Bill Kurtis, cohost of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!
For years, the Chicago Tribune’s popular weekly column 10 Things You Might Not...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a revered, and occasionally controversial, worldwide business icon for more than three decades.
Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary, and painted by some as a tyrannical, less-than-scrupulous empire builder, Gates has had...
Chicago Flashback
The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Chicago Flashback feature reflects on significant events and people throughout Chicago’s history, dating back to the newspaper’s founding in 1847
Carefully curated by the newspaper staff into a single coffee-table volume
Contains many black-and-white photographs from the Chicago Tribune’s...
Where Did Our Love Go
Love and Relationships in the African-American Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Where Did Our Love Go?, an anthology of essays written by many major public figures and celebrities, will explore the substantive issues related to marital problem in the African-American community. From the "my baby's mama" syndrome to the more serious implications of what a generation...
The Seasons on Henry's Farm
A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Henry's Farm, run by Henry Brockman, is in central Illinois - some of the richest farming land in the world. There, he and his family - five generations of farmers, including sister Terra, the author - have bucked the traditional agribusiness conventional wisdom by farming in a way that's sensible,...