Author: Rand McNallyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780528952807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Turner Chicago Street Guide
Author: Rand McNallyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780528952807
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Rand McNally Chicago Street Guide and Transportation Directory
Author: A. N. Marquis & Co.'s Official Street Guide to Chicago
Author: A.N. Marquis & CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Streetwise Chicago
Author: Don HaynerPublisher: Wild Onion Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Welcome to the fascinating world of Chicago street names! Did you know that Ainslie Street was named after a real estate developer whose widow, in 1848, left for California to pan for gold with a new husband? Or did you know that Crandon Avenue was named for a prohibitionist congressional candidate who lost to his opponent in 1882 by a vote of 11,686 to 663?
The Corporate Commonwealth
Author: Henry S. TurnerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636349X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political history, literary analysis, and political philosophy to demonstrate how a number of English institutions with corporate associations—including universities, guilds, towns and cities, and religious groups—were gradually narrowed to the commercial, for-profit corporation we know today, and how the joint-stock corporation, in turn, became both a template for the modern state and a political force that the state could no longer contain. Through innovative readings of works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among others, Turner tracks the corporation from the courts to the stage, from commonwealth to colony, and from the object of utopian fiction to the subject of tragic violence. A provocative look at the corporation’s peculiar character as both an institution and a person, The Corporate Commonwealth uses the past to suggest ways in which today’s corporations might be refashioned into a source of progressive and collective public action.
More than Cool Reason
Author: George LakoffPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226470989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida
Three Girls from Bronzeville
Author: Dawn TurnerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982107715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their 'Thing Finder box,' and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a writer, Debra a doctor, Kim a teacher. Then they came to a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they made could--and would--have devastating consequences. There was a razor thin margin of error--especially for brown girls"
International Topographical Rail Road Guide Between the Atlantic Seaboard and Missouri River
Author: Rand McNally Quick Reference Street Guide of Chicago
Author: Rand McNally and CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Political Poison
Author: Mark Richard ZubroPublisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466802804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Paul Turner is not your typical middle-aged cop. A widower, he lives with his two teenaged sons, and he is gay. He is also trusted by the brass to handle sensitive cases, so when a Chicago alderman is found murdered, Turner is assigned to the case. The dead alderman was not only a professor at the University of Chicago, but also a leading liberal gadfly with the media's ear. As Turner investigates, he discovers that jealous professors and old-guard politicians have guilty secrets to protect, not the least of which are the real reasons why some people in Chicago hated the alderman--information that they will stop at nothing to keep secret. In Political Poison, Mark Richard Zubro has penned another thrilling mystery for Paul Turner.