Norman Mark's Chicago: Walking, bicycling, and driving tours of the city

Mark, Norman

Chicago Review Press

Mayors, madams, and madmen

History

Americas

Norman Mark's Chicago: Walking, Bicycling and Driving Tours of the City

Travel

Specialty Travel

Like visiting your thoroughly-informed but excessively-chatty and overly-boosterish cousin. Mark, the arts and entertainment reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago, tells innumerable stories about Chicago landmarks and people; suggests places to shop, eat, and drink; provides hours, addresses, directions, and tour maps; and includes 80 new b&amp;w photos. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Norman Mark's Chicago: Walking, Bicycling, & Driving Tours of the City

UNKNO

The Octopus's Garden: The Secret World Under the Sea

Black Dog Books

The Octopus's Garden

Poles Apart (life at the ends of the earth)

Wild Dog Books

"We're very sophisticated, boasting the most vital theatrical community in America, but we're naive to the point that we're still shocked whenever another politician we trust gets indicted. A deeply religious town that tolerates sinners, Chicago combines all that is awe inspiring and a lot of what is awful about America." 
Such paradoxes fuel award-winning author and columnist Norman Mark's fascination with his hometown. In Chicago: Heart and Soul of America, he explains that there's much more to the Windy City than people see on the surface. Aided by an outstanding collection of images compiled by noted art director Kerry Robertson, Mark explores the lesser-known side of Chicago--the side that boasts a history full of colorful personalities and memorable events. 
Take "Cap" Streeter, who is literally responsible for constructing 186 acres of the city. Or John "Bet-a-Million" Gates, whose high-stakes whist and bridge games at the Rookery were the stuff of legends. Or Harriet Papastratakos, who has arranged more than 5,000 marriages--and counting. Each of those characters--and countless others--has helped make Chicago an unrivaled metropolis, truly second to none. 
Where else but Chicago can you find a mayor who fired the entire police force--and then watched as the crime rate went down? Where else can a woman literally hog-tie a man into marrying her--and the two live happily ever after? Where else will an arts fanatic stand up before the second act of a Chicago Ballet performance, chant "We're Number One!" and be absolutely right? 
As Mark aptly demonstrates, "Chicago is the city that loves to be Number One above all things." And for that reason, it is--and always will be--the heart and soul of America.

Chicago: Heart and Soul of America (Urban Tapestry Series)

Arts & Photography

Norman, Mark

Robertson, Kerry

Photography & Video

Towery Pub

The study of folklore is very often the examination of symbolism and symbolic interpretation changes over time. Many ghosts appear or behave in a way that seems less naturalistic than symbolic and this is certainly true of the image of the Black Dog.It is telling that apparitions of ghostly Black Dogs have been sighted, felt, heard and experienced in an unnatural way by people for nearly a millennium now and yet people stumble across information about them by chance when attempting to provide themselves with an explanation for what has occurred. Many people's knowledge of the subject stretches no further than The Hound of the Baskervilles and where they are more familiar, people often think that the Black Dog is evil or portentous in the manner of the Shuck.Black Dog Folklore aims to redress this balance. It is the first full-length study of the phenomenon by a single author, containing a gazetteer of over 750 key UK eyewitness accounts and traditions drawn from the author's archive.Mark Norman is a folklore author and researcher based in Devon, in the South-West of the UK. He is a committee member of the Folklore Society and has been researching and collecting information on Black Dog apparitions for many years. He holds what is believed to be the UK's largest archive of these sightings and traditions, which includes fieldwork and notes from other respected collectors such as Theo Brown and the recently donated archive of Janet Bord.

Black Dog Folklore

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Troy Books Publishing

Octopuses, squids, cuttlefishes and their relatives ("cephalopods") are some of the most "alien" creatures on earth. They have complex behaviours and many are experts at spectacular color and shape changes. They come in all shapes and sizes, from pygmy octopuses to giant scams (&gt; 15 m long), and occur from shallow reefs to the deep sea (&gt; 7,500 m deep). This guide includes information and images for species from around the world as well as general stories on their unique lives and bizarre habits. With over 800 photos of cephalopods taken in their natural habitat.

Cephalopods: A World Guide

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

ConchBooks

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