Chicago Review Press: 838 books
Eating Appalachia
Rediscovering Regional American Flavors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Dozens of indigenous fruits, vegetables, nuts, and game animals are waiting to be rediscovered by American epicures, and Appalachia stocks the largest pantry with these delectable flavors. Eating Appalachia looks at the uniquely flavorful foods that are native to the region—including pawpaws, American...
The Man with the Bionic Brain
And Other Victories over Paralysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A behind-the-scenes view of cutting-edge medical research and discoveries that are helping people with disabilities regain control, this book is an insightful look into the possibilities of technology and the associated ethical, political, social, and financial controversies. After he was stabbed...
¡Feminismo!
The Woman's Movement in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
A book detailing the history of feminist activism in Argentina from the 19th and 20th century.
That Undeniable Longing
My Road to and from the Priesthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This fascinating memoir begins with the author leaving his home in California at the age of nineteen to enter a seminary on the outskirts of Rome. The seminary has a resident "saint" who is later discovered to be far more human than spiritual. The author struggled to be faithful to his commitment...
Tea & Antipathy
An American Family in Swinging London
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Tea & Antipathy is a delightfully hilarious and true account of one American family’s summer in the posh London neighborhood of Knightsbridge in 1965. Capturing the helpless feeling that living in a foreign city often brings, the book recounts how the Millers met a wide variety of memorable...
Civilization or Barbarism
An Authentic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.
Letters from Prague
19391941
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found the letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were written by their grandmother and uncle, trapped...
Held at a Distance
My Rediscovery of Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
This powerful book gives readers a chance to experience Ethiopia through the personal experience of a writer who is both Ethiopian and American. It takes readers beyond headlines and stereotypes to a deeper understanding of the country. This is an absorbing account of the author’s return trip to...
January 1973
Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In January 1973, politics in America changed forever as, in the span of 31 days, the Watergate burglars went on trial, the Nixon administration negotiated an end to the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade, Lyndon Johnson died in Texas, and Richard Nixon was sworn in for...
Curious Case of Kiryas Joel
The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Twenty years ago, in the middle of the night and on the last day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests of a religious sect called the Satmar, an insular group of Hasidic Jews that objects to, among other things,...
Balance
A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Some low-frequency sounds—such as noise from storms or truck engines—can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might...
I Dare to Say
African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Featuring the real-life experiences of contemporary African women who tell of atrocities, pain, motherhood, marriage, love, and courage in their daily life, this gripping collection brings greater awareness to a continuing struggle. Denied a voice by their own culture for centuries, these women speak...
by Lacey Baldwin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians...
No Time for Tears
Coping with Grief in a Busy World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
No Time for Tears is a new kind of guide, rich with information and real-life stories, to help not only people struggling through grief due to the loss of a loved one but also those who counsel them. Psychotherapist Judy Heath draws on her experiences in private practice and in her own life, as well...