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In Disarming the Prairie, landscape photographer Terry Evans offers haunting and hopeful images of the impact of America's military-industrial complex on the environment and the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve and public recreation area. Located 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, the Joliet Army Arsenal was once the world's largest TNT factory.
Abandoned by the post-Cold War era military, the munitions...
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"Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region is the first geography of the Windy City to appear in more than thirty years. Through its topical and chronological presentation and its innovative analysis and interpretation, we learn why the geography of Chicago is central to understanding Chicago's history and its success as the nation's third-largest metropolitan area."--BOOK JACKET.
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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
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