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The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have been reporting
the city's news for 170 years. As a result, the paper has amassed
an inimitable, as-it-happened history of its hometown, a city first
incorporated in 1837 that rapidly grew to become the third-largest
city in the United States. Since 2011, the Chicago Tribune has been
mining its vast archive of photos and stories for its weekly
feature Chicago Flashback, which deals with the significant people
and events that have shaped the city's history and culture from the
paper's founding in 1847 to the present day. Now the editors of the
Tribune have carefully collected the best, most interesting Chicago
Flashback features into a single coffee-table volume. Each story is
accompanied by at least one black-and-white image from the paper's
fabled photo vault located deep below Michigan Avenue's famed
Tribune Tower. Chicago Flashback offers readers a unique
perspective on the city's long and colorful history.
David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think – because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
But if you’re determined to give it a go, you might enjoy this eclectic collection (or eclection) of David Mitchell’s attempts to make light of all that darkness. Scampi, politics, the Olympics, terrorism, exercise, rude street names, inheritance tax, salad cream, proportional representation and farts are all touched upon by Mitchell’s unremitting laser of chit-chat, as he negotiates a path between the commercialisation of Christmas and the true spirit of Halloween. Read this book and slightly change your life!
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Jeremy Clarkson
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JEREMY CLARKSON'S LATEST - AND MOST OUTRAGEOUS - TAKE ON THE WORLD
CLARKSON'S BACK - AND THIS TIME HE'S PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWN From his
first job as a travelling sales rep selling Paddington Bears to his
latest wheeze as a gentleman farmer, Jeremy Clarkson's love of cars
has just about kept him out of trouble. But in a persistently
infuriating world, sometimes you have to race full-throttle at the
speed-bumps. Because there's still plenty to get cross about,
including: * Why nothing good ever came out of a meeting * Muesli's
unmentionable side effects * Navigating London when every single
road is being dug up at once * People who read online reviews of
dishwashers * ****ing driverless cars Buckle up for a bumpy ride -
you're holding the only book in history to require seatbelts . . .
Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: Brilliant . . . Laugh-out-loud' Daily
Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . Will have you in stitches' Time
Out 'Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube' Evening
Standard
Known for his wild wit and irreverent commentary, Guy Rundle is one
of Australia's most virtuosic minds. Practice distils his best
writing on politics, culture, class and more. In it, Rundle roves
the campaign trails of Obama, Palin and Trump; rides the Amtrak
around a desolate America; bails up Bob Katter and Pauline Hanson;
and excavates the deeper meanings of True Detective and Joy
Division. Insightful and hilarious, Practice reveals Rundle as
among Australia's sharpest and most entertaining minds, with a
genuinely awe-inducing range and an utterly inimitable voice. There
is only one Guy Rundle.
Fully updated from the original edition. As the retreat from Kabul
shows, America goes to war not to bring democracy, or glory, but in
the pursuit of profit. In The Spoils of War, leading Washington
reporter, Andrew Cockburn, reveals the extent of the rot that
stretches from the Pentagon and the White House, to Wall St and
Silicon Valley. The American war machine can only be understood in
terms of the "private passions" and "interests" of those who
control it - principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as
he witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms
manufacturer's urgent financial requirements; the U.S. Navy's
Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt
contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and
prostitutes; senior marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in
Afghanistan in 2017 "because it will do us good at budget time."
Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the
ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: squalid,
and at the same time terrifyingly dangerous.
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Charles Baudelaire; Translated by Rainer J. Hanshe; Introduction by Rainer J. Hanshe
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For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his
essays in "Inside Higher Ed," "McSweeney's Internet Tendency,"
"Brevity," "Ninth Letter," and "Adjunct Advocate," many under the
pen name Oronte Churm. Churm's topics have ranged widely, exploring
themes such as the writing life and the utility of creative-writing
classes, race issues in a university town, and the beautiful,
protective crocodiles that lie patiently waiting in the minds of
fathers.
Though Griswold recently entered the tenure stream, much of his
experience, at a Big Ten university, has been as an adjunct
lecturer--that tenuous and uncertain position so many now occupy in
higher education. In "Pirates You Don't Know," Griswold writes
poignantly and hilariously about the contingent nature of this
life, tying it to his birth in the last American enclave in Saigon
during the Vietnam War, his upbringing in a coal town in southern
Illinois, and his experience as an army deep-sea diver and frogman.
He investigates class in America through four generations of his
family and portrays the continuing joys and challenges of
fatherhood while making a living, becoming literate, and staying
open to the world. But Griswold's central concerns apply to
everyone: What does it mean to be educated? What does it mean to
think, feel, create, and be whole? What is the point of this
particular journey?
"Pirates You Don't Know" is Griswold's vital attempt at making
sense of his life as a writer and now professor. The answers for
him are both comic and profound: "Picture Long John Silver at the
end of the movie, his dory filled with stolen gold, rowing and
sinking; rowing, sinking, and gloating."
Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English
journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This
coverage of his writing offers a broad insight into British social
and political developments, government and press relations,
propaganda, and war reporting during the First World War.
Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people
make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding
of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within
a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of
supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World, award-winning
screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly
heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other
storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on
the world through their art. Drawing on the author's decades of
experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries,
this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes
that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.
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