Instructor's Guide to Accompany The Enduring Vision
Author: Robert B. Grant
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780669397970
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Author: Robert B. Grant
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780669397970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: D.C. Heath
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 760
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Publisher: D.C. Heath
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780669415902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780669331707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert B. Grant
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780618373413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Whet Moser
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1789140005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChicago has been called the “most American of cities” and the “great American city.” Not the biggest or the most powerful, nor the richest, prettiest, or best, but the most American. How did it become that? And what does it even mean? At its heart, Chicago is America’s great hub. And in this book, Chicago magazine editor and longtime Chicagoan Whet Moser draws on Chicago’s social, urban, cultural, and often scandalous history to reveal how the city of stinky onions grew into the great American metropolis it is today. Chicago began as a trading post, which grew into a market for goods from the west, sprouting the still-largest rail hub in America. As people began to trade virtual representations of those goods—futures—the city became a hub of finance and law. And as academics studied the city’s growth and its economy, it became a hub of intellect, where the University of Chicago’s pioneering sociologists shaped how cities at home and abroad understood themselves. Looking inward, Moser explores how Chicago thinks of itself, too, tracing the development of and current changes in its neighborhoods. From Boystown to Chinatown, Edgewater to Englewood, the Ukrainian Village to Little Village, Chicago is famous for them—and infamous for the segregation between them. With insight sure to enlighten both residents and anyone lucky enough to visit the City of Big Shoulders, Moser offers an informed local’s perspective on everything from Chicago’s enduring paradoxes to tips on its most interesting sights and best eats. An affectionate, beautifully illustrated urban portrait, his book takes us from the very beginnings of Chicago as an idea—a vision in the minds of the region’s first explorers—to the global city it has become.
Author: Donald P. Kauchak
Publisher:
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780131149809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian M. Murphy
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780669247732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Courtney Hunt
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 854
ISBN-13: 9780072295887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theo Maarten van Lint
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851244409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byzantine Empires. Armenian art, literature, religion and material culture have reinterpreted elements of a wide variety of cultures. Spanning over two and a half millennia, the history of Armenia and the Armenian people is a series of riveting tales, from its first mention under the Achaemenid King Darius I to the independence of the Republic of Armenia from the Soviet Union.With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output. Together with introductions written by experts in their fields, close to one hundred manuscripts, works of art and religious artefacts serve as a guide to Armenian culture and history. Gospel manuscripts splendidly illuminated by Armenian masters feature next to philosophical tractates and merchants' handbooks, affording us an insight into what makes the Armenian people truly unique, especially in the shadow of the genocide that threatened their annihilation a hundred years ago: namely their spirituality, language and perseverance in the face of adversity. VISIT THE EXHIBITIONArmenia: Treasures from an Enduring CultureOctober 2015 - January 2016Bodleian Library, Oxford