Chicago Review Press: 838 books
The Way Kitchens Work
The Science Behind the Microwave, Teflon Pan, Garbage Disposal, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
How does a microwave heat food? Why is only one side of aluminum foil shiny*?* and Is it better to use cold or hot water in a garbage disposal? are among the questions answered in this guide that reveals the hidden science of the kitchen and its trappings. Profiling more than 50 common appliances...
A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing
14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing is the perfect resource for those who would like to experiment with 3D design and manufacturing, but have little or no technical experience with the standard software. Author Mike Rigsby leads readers step-by-step through 15 simple toy projects, each illustrated with...
Great American Artists for Kids
Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
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,...
Gut Reactions
The Science of Weight Gain and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
How much do you really know about how the human body works, and how it reacts to food, exercise, nutrition, and the environment? While most of us have read about at least one fad diet, we're left wondering about the greater biochemistry, psychology, sociology, and physiology of the obesity crisis...
Boom!
The Chemistry and History of Explosives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Black powder, the world's first chemical explosive, was originally developed in the seventh century, during China's Tang dynasty. It was a crude mixture at first, but over time chemists discovered the optimum proportion of sulfur, charcoal, and nitrates, as well as the best way to mix them so that...
Neal Cassady
The Fast Life of a Beat Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This fascinating and in-depth biography of Neal Cassady takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life...
The Long Journey Home
A Novel of the Post-Civil War Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
A fascinating family saga set in the 1860s prairie of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Pioneer and Civil War veteran Henry Morgan sets out on a dramatic journey that takes him through mazes, river currents, down dangerous trails, and up against dead ends. From an unlikely beginning, Morgan's hasty marriage...
She Ain't Heavy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Just when counter clerk Teddy Warner is about to be evicted from her Scranton apartment, she bumps into beautiful, brilliant, blond Rachel her estranged childhood friend whose mother forbid their friendship thinking Teddy was beneath them.
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. But the winds of change are blowing...
Farewell to Dejla
Stories of Iraqi Jews at Home and in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Cleverly elucidating the somber diaspora of Iraqi Jews, this collection of stories explores the little-publicized migration of a people escaping oppression, only to be confronted with the difficult realities of new nations and customs. Sadka's work spans Iraq, Israel and the U.S. with beautiful, laconic...
Pig Boy's Wicked Bird
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year—1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident. More than anything, Doug wants to shed his nickname, Pig Boy, and grow up to be a hog man like his father....
Notes From Nethers
Growing Up In A Sixties Commune
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A unique and honest account of the author's childhood spent on a commune in rural Virginia. Nethers, as the commune came to be called, was the creation of Eugster's idealistic and headstrong mother, Carla. The narrative accurately depicts communal living in all its complexities. An array of colorful...
by Daisy Ashford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing.
by Stanley Booth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 tour across the United States, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting...