So Going Around Cities

So Going Around Cities
Author: Ted Berrigan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1980
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A new edition of this major collection of the poetry of Ted Berrigan, long unavailable.

Chicago Poems

Chicago Poems
Author: Carl Sandburg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1916
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Written in the poet's unique personal idiom, these early poems include "Chicago," "Fog," "Who Am I?" "Under the Harvest Moon," plus more on war, love, death, loneliness and the beauty of nature.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. National Commission on Urban Problems
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1968
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Hard City

Hard City
Author: Clark Howard
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 659
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504062043

The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago—and a young man walking the knife’s edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope—in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father—and brutality. Desperately lonely, Richie must contend with the criminal justice system, abusive foster homes, and a period of exile with his grandmother in Tennessee. In this gritty, semiautobiographical novel by an Edgar Award–winning author, the fate of this young man hangs in the balance as he finds himself tested by want, war, and the ever-present temptation to give up on the possibility of something better. “Strongly satisfying [and] frequently compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews “Sustains a sense of tension, moving smoothly between flashbacks of the events of Richie’s early years and the traumatic experiences of his adolescence, then on to his return to Chicago.” —The New York Times

The Philosopher in the City

The Philosopher in the City
Author: Hadley Arkes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400859115

After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; education, housing, and the problem of the ghetto"; prostitution, gambling, and the "regulation of vices." Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Book of (More) Delights

The Book of (More) Delights
Author: Ross Gay
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1643755471

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.

The Road to the City

The Road to the City
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781559700528

Each of the two novellas is narrated by a young woman who is in some way betrayed by, or the betrayer of, romantic love.

The Holy Bible

The Holy Bible
Author: Dallas James
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 059517809X

The Holy Bible—Urim-Thummim Version, Volume II is a new translation of the Holy Bible and the first ever published in the original manuscript order. This work represents over 30 years of studying and comparing Bible translations but uses a new approach to making the Bible both very readable and accurate to the original languages at the same time. The King James Version and Young's Literal Translation have been employed as the "base text." For many this version will retain much of the literary style of those time honored works but all archaic language has been replaced with modern English. More importantly however, this version endeavors to be extremely accurate to the Hebrew definitions that comprise the orginal text. As a result new discoveries and a greater detail to the Biblical story has now been obtained.

Pleasure Dome

Pleasure Dome
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2004-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0819567396

Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.

A Little R and R

A Little R and R
Author: Jacob Gunter
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Rand and Rose live the life of comfort and protection under the roof of their parents, who are renowned warriors. But their life of accommodation is turned upside down when their mother and father suddenly leave as a mysterious and overpowering enemy lays waste to all they know and love. Rand and Rose must take what untested knowledge they have and journey out into a new and unwelcoming world that tests their skills and family bond. Will they survive a world laid to smoke and ruin? Will civilization return? What is greater than family?