Ivan R Dee: 116 books
Navy Pier
A Chicago Landmark
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth. In the early twentieth century, when Daniel Burnham put together his master plan for the design of Chicago—a plan intended to create...
The South Side
The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
The South Side is a quietly powerful story of how a white, middle-class, and largely Jewish neighborhood, built from prairie on Chicago's far South Side in the optimistic years after World War II, rapidly and dramatically changed to a middle-class black community in the 1960s. It is a tale of two...
A William Appleman Williams Reader
Selections From His Major Historical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1992
William Appleman Williams, who died in 1990, was arguably the most influential and controversial historian of his generation. His revisionist writings, especially in American diplomatic history, forced historians and others to abandon old clichés and confront disturbing questions about America's...
In Search of Ancient Ireland
The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much...
From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
The American Armed Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
Before this book, general readers who wanted a compact but comprehensive history of American military action in World War II had nowhere to turn. Now, in this concise, lucid, and balanced account, D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provide the first one volume history of the U.S. armed forces in...
by Georges Feydeau
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
A consummate farce in which a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a seedy little hotel with the beautiful young wife of his best friend.
American Beliefs
What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diversified people—because they have been shared and acted upon by generations...
Irrefutable Evidence
A History of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals—and, just as important, freeing the innocent—has transformed society's assault on crime. Before scientific detective work, early attempts to maintain public safety relied on the severity of punishment rather than any...
Culture of Opportunity
Obama's Chicago: The People, Politics, and Ideas of Hyde Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Rebecca Janowitz's portrait of Hyde Park-the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics-offers an expert, insider's social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama's political career and made possible his run for the...
by James Tooley
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with the increasing dissatisfaction among women that is revealed in survey after survey? Do gender-blind educational policies in fact work to women's disadvantage?...
by Matthew J. Gallman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1994
In the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate rebels. But after the First Battle of Bull Run it became clear to supporters of the Union that the Civil War would be prolonged and deadly. How Northern society mobilized...
The Founders' Second Amendment
Origins of the Right to Bear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Stephen P. Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is the first book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment, based on the Founders' own statements as found in newspapers, correspondence, debates, and resolutions. Mr. Halbrook investigates the period from 1768 to 1826, from the last...
by James Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Hailed as a creative genius (TLS) and a singular American visionary (New York Times), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he is also an astonishing playwright who has written nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy is one of the few contemporary American writers capable...
Instant Shakespeare
A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare? They're both part of Louis Fantasia's approach in Instant Shakespeare. Mr. Fantasia, the first American to direct at the Shakespeare Globe Centre and a distinguished member of the international theatre community,...