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Chicago

By: Ray Furse

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How did a settlement founded in a swamp become one of the world’s greatest metropolises in just 200 years? That’s what happened to Chicago, and perhaps its success is best summed up in the words of Daniel Burnham, architect and city planner: "Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.” Watch the "Windy City” change and grow before your eyes in dramatic photos of its renowned treasures, past and present. Among the famous sights so evocatively presented are the renowned Art Institute, Soldier Field, Haymarket Square, the Water Tower, Wrigley Field, Navy Pier, and the Loop. Learn, also, how the city’s central location helped it expand economically; about Chicago’s great entrepreneurs and artists; and about Chicagoland food and sports.

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156

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Sterling Publishing Company

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ISBN 10

1402732996

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9781402732997

The People's Choice

Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana

By: Ray Boomhower

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The People's Choice

Congressman Jim Jontz of Indiana

By: Ray Boomhower

This first-ever biography of Congressman Jim Jontz examines his remarkable long-shot political career and lifetime involvement in local, state, and national environmental issues. As a liberal Democrat (he preferred the terms progressive or populist) usually running in conservative districts, Jontz had political pundits predicting his defeat in every election only to see him celebrating another victory with his happy supporters, always clad in a scruffy plaid jacket with a hood from high school that he wore for good luck. “I always hope for the best and fight for the worst,” said Jontz. He won five terms as state representative for the Twentieth District (Benton, Newton, Warren, and White Counties), served two years in the Indiana Senate, and captured three terms in the U.S. Congress representing the sprawling Fifth Congressional District in northwestern Indiana that stretched from Lake County in the north to Grant County in the south. Jontz told a reporter that his political career had always “been based on my willingness and role as a spokesman for the average citizen.” In his career Jontz also led an unsuccessful campaign to stop the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement with the Citizens Trade Campaign, helped protect the Endangered Species Act when it was under attack in the 1990s as director of the Endangered Species Coalition, campaigned to save old-growth forests as executive director of the Western Ancient Forest Campaign, and tried to foster progressive causes as president of the Americans for Democratic Action.

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274

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Indiana Historical Society

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087195298X

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9780871952981

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

By: Ray Desmond

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Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

By: Ray Desmond

An exhaustive treatment of all British and Irish botanists through 1976.

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CRC Press

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1466573872

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9781466573871

Jump Up!

Caribbean Carnival Music in New York

By: Ray Allen

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Caribbean Carnival Music in New York

By: Ray Allen

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music, migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers, musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.

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Oxford University Press

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0190656867

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9780190656867

For the Love of the Navy

A Celebration of the British Armed Forces

By: Ray Hamilton

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For the Love of the Navy

A Celebration of the British Armed Forces

By: Ray Hamilton

From magnificent vessels like the Tudor warship Mary Rose and the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, to the naval heroes and dramatic sea battles that make up the British Navy’s illustrious history, and looking at the remarkable people who serve in her ranks today, this fascinating miscellany celebrates the oldest of the UK’s armed services.

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Summersdale

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1786854473

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Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers

Jump Up!

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