Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Henry David Thoreau for Kids
His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Hands-on nature activities for the budding transcendentalist Author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for living two years along the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. He is also known for spending a night in jail for nonpayment of taxes, which he discussed in the influential...
I Killed Scheherazade
Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
For centuries the heroine of The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, defined the Arab woman-until Joumana Haddad, an Arab woman herself, had had enough. Haddad angrily challenges prevalent notions of identity and womanhood in the Middle East in this intrepid exploration. While she finds the West’s dominant...
Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids
Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
An interactive activity book that details the muckraking era
Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids brings to light the evolving world of American journalism, from the late 1800s to today. Focusing on the bold, audacious investigative reporter Nellie Bly, one of the most famous women...
Divine Rebels
American Christian Activists for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In an effort to reclaim the fundamental principles of Christianity, moving it away from religious right-wing politics and towards the teachings of Jesus, the American Christian activists profiled in this book agitate for a society free from racism, patriarchy, bigotry, retribution, ecocide, torture,...
She Takes a Stand
16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Portraits of brave women from the late 1800s through today—role models who are passionate about important issues A source of inspiration for young women with strong social convictions, She Takes a Stand highlights 16 extraordinary women who have fought for human rights, civil rights, workers' rights,...
Investigating Lois Lane
The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From her creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 to her forthcoming appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, from helming her own...
Hitler
The Man and the Military Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
Percy Ernst Schramm, one of Germany's most distinguished historians, had exceptional access to Adolf Hitler because from January 1943 to the end of the war he was the Fuhrer's official war diarist. This classic volume, long out of print, contains the introductions written by Schramm to critical editions...
Phallic Frenzy
Ken Russell and His Films
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
A biography of director Ken Russell that details the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmmaker-on and off the set. Best known for the acclaimed movies Altered States, The Devils, Gothic, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Women...
Ireland
A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade,"...
by Bonnie Shimko
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Lizzy McMann, A feisty twelve-year-old, lives with her immature mother and Manny, her father (she thinks) in a fleabag Phoenix hotel. One night, Manny's sudden announcement that he wants a divorce forces mother and daughter to move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandmother and grandfather—a...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Kids
His Life and Times with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s enduring legacy upon the history, culture, politics, and economics of the United States is introduced to children in this engaging activity book. Kids will learn how FDR, a member of one of the founding families of the New World, led the nation through the darkest days...
The Roughest Riders
The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The inspiring story of the first African American soldiers to serve during the postslavery era
Many have heard how Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt’s success was...
The Thunder of Angels
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant and thorough detail. The untold stories of those, both black and white, whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white council...
Lincoln's Pathfinder
John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But...