Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Henry Ford for Kids
His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
An in-depth and realistic portrait of the man who "put America on wheels" Detailing Henry Ford's childhood as a precocious farm-boy mechanic, his revolutionary labor and production ideas, and the lasting legacy of his widespread philanthropy, author Ronald A. Reis also does not shy away...
Michael and Me
The Untold Story of Michael Jackson's Secret Romance
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
More than six years after his death, Michael Jackson continues to fascinate the world. Shana Mangatal was one of Jackson's only constant and true rocks of stability for nearly two decades. Their relationship was quiet and sweet and real—a closely guarded secret, known only to a few trusted employees...
The Upset
Jack Fleck's Incredible Victory over Ben Hogan at the U.S. Open
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Al Barkow, golf’s leading historian and story-teller, unfolds the improbable Ben HoganJack Fleck tale, and the results are as wondrous as the golf itself.” --Peter Kessler Jack Fleck had the slimmest of resumes as a professional tournament golfer. He had never even come close to winning...
Stick It!
My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin...
Mysterious Something in the Light
The Life of Raymond Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives, this biography casts a new light on Raymond Chandler, one of the most mysterious of writers. The man revealed was troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age—experiences that informed his writing as much as they...
Many Lives of Catwoman
The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains and damsels in distress. Sometimes a thief, sometimes a vigilante, sometimes neither and sometimes both, the mercurial Catwoman gleefully defies classification. Her relentless independence...
Great American Artists for Kids
Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Fun and easy art-appreciation activities abound in this resource that features 75 American artists from colonial times to the present. A brief biography for each artist tells why his or her work is important, and a kid-tested art activity tries out the artist’s approach. For Georgia O’Keeffe,...
Van Gogh and the Post-Impressionists for Kids
Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Vincent van Gogh’s admiration for and departure from Impressionism and his relationships with the other enthusiastic, like-minded artists who ultimately formed the Post-Impressionist movement are explained and explored in this collection of art activities for kids. Debunking the persistent stereotype...
The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars
Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The bible of music’s deceased idols—Jeff Buckley, Sid Vicious, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Elvis—this is the ultimate record of all those who arrived, rocked, and checked out over the last 40-odd years of fast cars, private jets, hard drugs, and reckless living. The truths behind thousands of fascinating...
by Steven Jay Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, includes biographies of every principal actor involved in the series and hundreds who toiled behind the...
The First Rasta
Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta-ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks-this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard...
Sox and the City
A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Over the last 40 years, Richard Roeper has attended White Sox games, watching as his team established a losing streak that was almost unparalleled in Major League Baseball history. In this account of what it was like to grow up a White Sox fan in a Cubs nation, Roeper covers the recent history of...
Practical Pyromaniac
Build Fire Tornadoes, One-Candlepower Engines, Great Balls of Fire, and More Incendiary Devices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Combining science, history, and DIY pyrotechnics, this book for the workbench warrior explains humankind’s most useful and paradoxical tool: fire. William Gurstelle, author of the bestselling Backyard Ballistics, presents 25 projects with instructions, diagrams, photos, and links to video demonstrations...
Cyclopedia
It's All About the Bike
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The essential A-Z compendium of everything there is to know about the bicycle, this sports reference is full of amazing facts and enthralling anecdotes. A world of death-defying feats and obscure mechanical oddities, the nature of cycling is both heroic and geeky, and the perils of vicious dogs are...