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A collection of articles on grassroots urban greening and renewal projects.

Set amid the cornfields and keg parties of Jasper, a fictitious midwestern college town, this book depicts the struggles of Underdog, a townie, against his many enemies at Jasper College. He competes with a professor, in a book deconstructing the TV show Green Acres, for the affections of a beautiful but haunted woman...

From the same metafictional universe as films like Best in Show and This is Spinal Tap, Walking Man documents the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man. The book satirizes so-called "alternative" culture while it fondly recollects the 80s and 90s zine scene.

Norman Mark's version of biographies of historically significant Chicagoans.

The drawings, essays and poems in this book are all written by children and young adults living in the inner-city housing projects of Chicago during the 1990s.

The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. This book reveals the officers and their personal stories. The author explores the juxtaposition of work and life for these men and women who don the Chicago Police Star.

Sue Storm has taught thousands of individuals how to improve their lives through Angelic blessings and guidance. She has made the concept of celestial communications very real and practical. Ms. Storm has a large national following through her appearances on The Daily Show, Talk Soup and the Fox Network. Her Cable television series is receiving rave reviews.

(Abstract courtesy of seventenbishop.com) Art is not created by the satisfied. The satisfied look out on the morning and accept the world as it is thus negating the desire for judgement. Like a sniper at a turd parade Daniel Joshua Nagelberg has the ills of his world in the crosshairs. Part scrutiny, part reticence, part fable, part rant, "Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs" is an outstanding exposition of a dissatisfied urban life. Daniel Joshua Nagelberg is at an imaginary bar with Bukowski on one side and Algren on the other quietly observing the rest of the villians have their way with each other. In the present climate of suspicion and fear, "Man Falling Backwards Down Stairs" is a welcome window of honest dynamic emotions. Much like Rumi's treaties of lust, debauchery and understanding through intoxication Daniel Joshua Nagelberg's visions of a wicked world gone wild are engaging, startling and often terrifying in their familiarity.

A collection of newspaper articles written over a four-year span (1985-1988) exploring the world of the Italian immigrant.

Libushka Brown, a Chicago Native, began her performance career at the age of three--at her father's Christmas party--then went on to spend years as a solo dancer with the Chicago Grand Opera and the Chicago Civic Opera, as well as appear on stage, screen and radio, even authoring two children's books. At the age of 97, she published this memoir.