Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Another Fine Mess
A History of American Film Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From City Lights to Knocked Up, this history examines American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother, the comedy, and puts the comic titans of the present in the context of their predecessors. The 30 chapters and 100 essays follow the connections that link Mae West to Marilyn Monroe and...
by Peter Baylies, Jessica Toonkel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Written by a stay-at-home dad for other stay-at-home dads, this handbook addresses the particular parenting issues men face when they become the primary caregivers. This "man-friendly" resource offers practical solutions to such challenges as living well on one income, understanding the...
Movie Wars
How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever-we just can’t see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage...
The Sound of Music
The Making of America's Favorite Movie
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
When The Sound of Music was released in 1965, it took the world by storm, capturing five Oscars (including Best Picture) and holding the number-one spot box-office record for five years. For millions of viewers, the film is a rare combination of a powerful and moving story, superb music, and breathtaking...
Break These Rules
35 YA Authors on Speaking Up, Standing Out, and Being Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Middle grades and young adult authors speak candidly on the unspoken “rules” of adolescence in this collection of moving, inspiring, and often funny essays. This unique volume encourages readers to break with conformity and defy age-old, and typically inaccurate, orthodoxy—including such conventions...
Reporting Under Fire
16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists
A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman—including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast...
Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater
15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
After glamorous American singer Claire Phillips opened her own night club in Manila, using the proceeds to secretly feed starving American POWs, she also began working as a spy, chatting up Japanese military men and passing their secrets along to local guerilla resistance fighters. Australian Army...
Simeon's Story
An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil rights movement, is explained in this dramatic narrative by the cousin who was present every step...
The World That Made New Orleans
From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans’ first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural,...
Hiding in Plain Sight
Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.
by Pauline Gedge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In The Twelfth Transforming, bestselling author Pauline Gedge returns to ancient Egypt to reveal the mysterious reign of Akhenaten, the impetuous pharaoh who threatened to ruin his country. The dramatic story of Akhenaten's disastrous ruling is also the tale of Empress Tiye, a mother struggling to...
Special Agent Man
My Life in the FBI as a Terrorist Hunter, Helicopter Pilot, and Certified Sniper
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For decades, movies and television shows have portrayed FBI agents as fearless heroes leading glamorous lives, but this refreshingly original memoir strips away the fantasy and glamour and describes the day-to-day job of an FBI special agent. The book gives a firsthand account of a career in the Federal...
First Class
The Legacy of Dunbar, Americas First Black Public High School
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public...
Last Chance for Justice
How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Revealing the story of the reopening of the case of the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing of 1963, this insider’s account divulges the ins and outs of the investigation led by detective Ben Herren of the Birmingham Police Department and special agent Bill Fleming of the FBI. For more than a year,...