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Editorial Reviews Book Description Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to th...
Editorial Reviews Book Description Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to th...
Great book on Chicago ethnic history This is a very well written, well organized and interesting book about the ethnic history of Chicago. Starting from the early settlers, the authors write abo...
The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a 'nation of nations.' For more than 200 years, people of diverse nationalities and religions from all over th...
Reading Level: Grades 3-4 • Interest Level: Grades 3-9 Between 1880 and 1914, at least 7.5 million people from Eastern Europe migrated to the U.S. These immigrants were part of what is known as ...
Editorial Reviews Book Description: How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two ...
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: In the months before D-Day, the Italian campaign dragged on with huge casualties on both sides. Parker (The Battle of Britain) details, with the aid o...
This book was first published in 1984 and is still one of the better researched books covering the fighting around Cassino in Italy in 1944. In over 587 pages the author covers nearly ever facet of th...
Editorial Reviews Book Description "This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else overlooked. Shana Penn's study be...