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A Journey to Nine Islands

Chicago Botanic Garden

By: Chicago Botanic Garden

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A Journey to Nine Islands

Chicago Botanic Garden

By: Chicago Botanic Garden

Accompanied by charming and accessible text, the floral centerfolds of Journey to Nine Islands invite the reader to participate in the world of the Chicago Botanic Garden—one of the nation’s most visited public gardens and a preeminent center for learning and plant science. This remarkable volume showcases these lush and extraordinary gardens with 96 pages of beautifully reproduced full-color photography—capturing images from Chicago Botanic Garden sites as diverse as the English Oak Meadow, the Rose Garden, the Prairie, and the exquisite Heritage Garden. The breathtaking images featured in this volume represent only a small portion of the stunning blooms on view year-round at the Botanic Garden—a magisterial landscape that changes with the seasons, welcoming plants like the late-blooming sawtooth sunflower in the early autumn and the panicle hydrangea in the heat of midsummer. A fascinating read for the weekend gardener, a thoughtful gift for your favorite flower lover, and beautiful, portable reference to the wonders of this urban oasis, Journey to Nine Islands is an impeccable companion to this national treasure.

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Chicago Horticultural Society

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0939914093

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9780939914098

Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago

By: Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Gale A. Pearson

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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago

By: Art Institute of Chicago,James N. Wood,Gale A. Pearson

The culmination of a two-part project, this volume takes an extended look at recent, important acquisitions by the Art Institute of Chicago's departments of American Arts, Architecture, Asian Art, European Painting, and Prints and Drawings. Bringing the museum's collecting activities into wide public view, it showcases over forty notable works handpicked by Art Institute curators and the museum's director and president, James N. Wood. Together with its companion issue, which was published in Fall 2003, this publication explores art works acquired between 1992 and 2003, years that have brought significant additions to every area of the Art Institute's holdings. This volume surveys an impressive array of objects, including a glittering Empire card table from early nineteenth-century New York; a fragment of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (1923); and important paintings and works on paper by artists as diverse as Lee Krasner, Edvard Munch, Ni Zan, and Rembrandt van Rijn. Illuminated by striking, full-colour reproductions and a lively, accessible text, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and finest the Art Institute has to offer.

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106

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University of Illinois Press

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0865592098

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9780865592094

10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and Things

By: Mark Jacob,Stephan Benzkofer,Chicago Tribune

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and Things

By: Mark Jacob,Stephan Benzkofer,Chicago Tribune

A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more. For years, the Chicago Tribune’s “10 Things You Might Not Know” column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of subjects. This volume collects the best of these columns, offering readers obscure, fascinating facts on universal topics that will appeal to everyone from sports fans to history buffs, foodies, and more. Expertly researched and thoroughly entertaining, 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything contains a plethora of surprising trivia on numerous topics, with an especially close look into Chicago-area history and facts. For example, in Zion, Illinois it was once illegal to spit, eat oysters, wear tan-colored shoes, or whistle on Sundays. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything will leave readers brighter, wittier, and curious to learn more about myriad subjects and stories they will never forget.

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469

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Agate Publishing

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1572847999

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9781572847996

The Vatican Collections

The Papacy and Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Art Institute of Chicago,Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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The Vatican Collections

The Papacy and Art

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Art Institute of Chicago,Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.

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262

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870993216

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9780870993213

Cost Effective Control of Urban Smog

By: Conference Proceedings,Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,Proceedings Conference Proceedings

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Cost Effective Control of Urban Smog

By: Conference Proceedings,Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,Proceedings Conference Proceedings

The conference proceedings include such topics as achieving balance between a cleaner environment and economic growth, the urban ozone abatement problem, the status of the modeling of ozone formation and geographic movement in the Midwest, cost effectiveness of remote sensing of vehicle emissions, incentives and the car, health impacts of ozone, emissions offset trading programs, and the regional economic impacts of marketable permit programs.

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240

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The Minerva Group, Inc.

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089499140X

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9780894991400

Chicago Lives

Men and Women Who Shaped Our City

By: Chicago Tribune

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Chicago Lives

Men and Women Who Shaped Our City

By: Chicago Tribune

A unique journey through the 20th century in Chicago, this work reveals the characters whose lives put an indelible stamp on the city. Some were famous, like Richard J. Daley and Harold Washington, while others were infamous or unacknowledged, living fascinating lives that helped shape the city while remaining anonymous at the same time like, such as Emma Schweer, who is believed to have been America's oldest elected office holder; Zofia Kuklo, a shy church-going, Polish immigrant grandmother who hid Jewish individuals from the Nazis during World War II; and James Tuach MacKenzie, the dashing and charismatic former drum major and band manager of the Stock Yard Kilty Band, among the most prominent of Chicago's many pipe bands. In "Chicago Lives" readers explore the struggles of immigrants, the innovation of architects and artists, the dedication of activists and city officials, and the actions of Chicagoan's whose feats were never recorded by history books, until now.

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360

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Triumph Books

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1617499420

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9781617499425

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A Journey to Nine Islands

A Journey to Nine Islands

Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago

Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago

10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything

The Vatican Collections

The Vatican Collections

Cost Effective Control of Urban Smog

Cost Effective Control of Urban Smog

Chicago Lives

Chicago Lives

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