(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700638642)
Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the “liberal coasts” and the “conservative heartland” has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much of the Midwest as a Republican stronghold. Today’s polarized div...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700638659)
Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the “liberal coasts” and the “conservative heartland” has become something of a truism, leading many Democrats to write off much of the Midwest as a Republican stronghold. Today’s polarized div...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496242440)
Doug Feldmann chronicles the Cardinals’ 1987 season under manager Whitey Herzog in their pursuit of redemption—and the 1987 World Series championship—after a disastrous 1986 season....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: Triumph Books (IL), ISBN-13: 9781637277799)
From its inception, Sports Illustrated has chronicled hockeys greatest spectacle: the pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Now, SI celebrates the incomparable grandeur and spirit with a lavish commemorative book featuring the magazines iconic photography...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2024, Other book format, Kirjastus: Triumph Books (IL), ISBN-13: 9781637275139)
From its inception, Sports Illustrated has chronicled baseballs greatest spectacle: the World Series. Now, SI celebrates the grandeur and spirit of the Fall Classic with a deluxe commemorative...Loe edasi...
For decades, Sports Illustrated has chronicled hockeys greatest spectacle: the pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Now, SI celebrates the incomparable grandeur and spirit with a lavish commemorative book featuring the magazines iconic photogra...Loe edasi...
Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation. Initially, I was relieved by the rejection. Id watched my hometown divide itself are you Mikmaq or settler? Mikmaq or n...Loe edasi...
Unmasking old-time racism in southern IllinoisPulling off the Sheets tells the previously obscured history of the Second Ku Klux Klan which formed in deep southern Illinois in the early 1920s. Through meticulous research into both public and private...Loe edasi...
Monica Norby, Judy Diamond, Aaron Sutherlen, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Kim Hachiya, Doug Norby, Michael Forsberg, Michael Boehm
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496235831)
Nearly forty essays about the history, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills, supplemented by numerous remarkable photos of the region-- Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out ove...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253068958)
As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indianas city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities have and continue to play an important role in politics, logistics, and commerce for both the st...Loe edasi...
As its name denotes, Indianapolis is without question Indianas city. Known as the Crossroads of America, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities have and continue to play an important role in politics, logistics, and commerce for both the stat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496231529)
Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women-Celia and Eliza Grayson-from Nebraska City in 1858 to debate whether slavery could exist in the West, and wh...Loe edasi...
The largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmland in the world.In 1863, after the...Loe edasi...
You can if you will. A phrase uttered to a young Jerry Kramer by his line coach at Sandpoint High School in tiny Sandpoint, Idaho, that would go on to push him to a celebrated NFL career with the Green Bay Packers and a sentiment that he would rep...Loe edasi...
This book describes one of the world’s longest-serving and most widely used military helicopters. Developed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union as a fire-support helicopter, more than 2,000 have been produced and continue in production today.Given the c...Loe edasi...
This book has long-form stories about the Chicago Cubs baseball team-- In The Franchise: Chicago Cubs, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team. This thoughtful and engaging collection...Loe edasi...
Set in the 1980s against a backdrop of the AIDS crisis, deindustrialization and the Reagan era, this book tells the story of one individuals defiant struggle against his community--the city of Kokomo, Indiana. At the same time as teenage AIDS patie...Loe edasi...
With a New Afterword: THE INSIDE STORY OF WHAT WENT WRONG AFTER 2016! David Kaplan of CSN Chicago and ESPN Radio goes behind the scenes with the Cubs and their front office, walking the steps of their captivating rise...Loe edasi...
Scale plans in 1/48 scale of the Mil Mi-24D/V. Scale plans in 1/48 scale of the Mil Mi-24D/V.A3 size pages in A4 pb.12 A3 size scale plans. Twelve fold-out large-format (650 x 297 mm) plans for 1/48 scale aero modellers of the variant...Loe edasi...
A commemorative 50th anniversary graphic-novel account of the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War college student protesters by the Ohio National Guard draws on in-depth interviews to profile the tragedy’s four victims. By the award-winning author o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496219664)
The story of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and manager Miller Huggins, who from 1918 to 1929 partnered to build the Yankees into the nation&;s dominant sports franchise. From the team&;s inception in 1903,...Loe edasi...
A detailed technical and operational history of a deadly and long-serving Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter. A detailed technical and operational history of a deadly and long-serving Soviet/Russian gunship and attack helicopter....Loe edasi...
This publication covers the legendary soviet multipurpose type, the Mi-8 Hip helicopter. As a very first book it describes not only the history and status of the original Mi-8 variants powered by TV2-117 engines starting with the V-8 prototype and th...Loe edasi...
2019 Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction THE NEW DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE PONY EXPRESSA groundbreaking work. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transco...Loe edasi...
This first comprehensive account of the Illinois village of Kaskaskia covers more than two hundred years in the vast and compelling history of the state. David MacDonald and Raine Waters explore Illinois’s first capital in great detail, fr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Thorndike Press Large Print, ISBN-13: 9781432865092)
Recounts the story of the settlers who began Americas migration west, overcoming almost-unimaginable hardships to build in the Ohio wilderness a town and a government that incorporated Americas highest ideals. The Pulitzer Prize-, National...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252084201)
In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were plante...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252042416)
In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were plante...Loe edasi...
Shipwrecks are junction points of history. In seeking to make sense of the submerged material culture found in shipwrecks, this book explores maritime-related stories that shaped the Midwest and the nation during the nineteenth and early twentieth c...Loe edasi...
When it came to the Civil War, Michiganians never spoke with one voice. At the beginning of the conflict, family farms defined the southern Lower Peninsula, while a sparsely settled frontier characterized the state’s north. Although dif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517904449)
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Young Black people have repeatedly asked Johnson why she continues to work on social justice issues and how she manages to retain hope. She publishes this book hoping current and future generations will remember the strength of their ancestors, lear...Loe edasi...
The legendary exploits of a spiritual superhero, and Tibetan Buddhisms most renowned saint--in a full-color graphic novel.From avenging evil sorcerer to devoted Buddhist ascetic to enlightened being—the story of Milarepa’s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814255155)
The story of Ohio—from its geographical position to its cultural mix and economic development—and its centrality to Americans inside and outside the state. Electoral significance has always distinguished the s...Loe edasi...
Chicago has been called the “most American of cities” and the “great American city.” Not the biggest or the most powerful, nor the richest, prettiest, or best, but the most American. How did it become that? And what does...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated compendium of twenty-two historic buildings in the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area includes houses, a hotel, and an art center, all of which are open to the public. Each site links today’s visitors with a pla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Iowa Press, ISBN-13: 9781609385880)
Believe it or not, Waterloo, Iowa, had an NBA team during the league’s first season, 1949 to 1950. Broadcaster and independent sports historian Tim Harwood uncovers the fascinating story of the Waterloo Hawks and the Midwest’s inf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Aug-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9780809336883)
This collection of thirty-three articles, originally published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society from 1918 to 2015, commemorates both the Illinois bicentennial and 110 years of the journals publication-- Culled f...Loe edasi...
The 1968 World Series remains one of the most iconic in major league history. Featuring Bob Gibson in MVP form, Al Kaline, and Mickey Lolich, it was baseball at its best. Told with the vibrant first-hand perspective of Lolich himself and the exp...Loe edasi...
Donna Cox, Mary Rasmussen, Ellen Sandor, Janine Fron, Lisa Wainwright, Anne Balsamo, Judy Malloy, Carolina Cruz-Niera, Colleen Bushell, Nan Goggin...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252041549)
Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events at the University of Illinois and the School o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9780809336432)
Between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his departure for Washington three months later, journalist Henry Villard sent scores of dispatches from Springfield, Illinois, to various newspapers describing the president-elect&rs...Loe edasi...
Hit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past. The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks provide more than beautiful scenery and recreational opportunities. They are windows into th...Loe edasi...
