Northern Illinois University Press
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Walking Chicago’s Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
$19.95 Add to cartBlending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago’s Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his far-North Side Chicago apartment and proceed
- Author: McColly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783149
- Language: English
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
$28.95 Add to cartRussia’s World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Robinson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780018
- Language: English
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James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography
$33.95 Add to cartIn this intellectual biography of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century, David T. Byrne reveals the fascinating life of James Burnham.
Beginning his intellectual career
- Author: Byrne, David T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780042
- Language: English
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The John Deere Story
$26.50 Add to cartToday, John Deere is remembered–some say mistakenly–as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name
- Author: Dahlstrom, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0875803369
- Language: English
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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations
$32.95 Add to cartWestern Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evide
- Author: Beckeld, Benedict
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501763180
- Language: English
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Bonds of Loyalty
$28.00 Add to cart- Series: Minorities in American History
- Author: Luebke, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: January 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0875805140
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$45.95 Add to cartSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern perio
- Author: Dabrowski, Patrice M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 087580487X
- Language: English
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Tagalog Verb Dictionary
$19.00 Add to cartThis handy reference is a concise explanatory text and English-Tagalog/Tagalog-English verb guide designed to address and facilitate the most important aspect of Tagalog language learning–understandi
- Author: Hawkins, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 087580652X
- Language: English
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
$30.00 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: September 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807550
- Language: English
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Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar
$25.00 Add to cart- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Engel, Barbara Alpern
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0875806902
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
$20.00 Add to cartAmong the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As “Franklin Thompson,” sh
- Author: Edmonds, Sarah Emma Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0875805841
- Language: English
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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology
$24.95 Add to cartChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This uniq
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 150176506X
- Language: English
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Lord Acton for Our Time
$19.95 Add to cartLord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Extract
- Series: People for Our Time
- Author: Lazarski, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 150177171X
- Language: English
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With Light Steam
$41.58 Add to cartIn 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia and stayed. Over the course of nearly twelve years he reported on academe and the science
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Macwilliams, Bryon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 875807089
- Language: English
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Alexander I
$44.95 Add to cartAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his f
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Rey, Marie-Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: November 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0875804667
- Language: English
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Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade
$34.95 Add to cartA conservative take on the antifascist movement
Antifascism argues that current self-described antifascists are not struggling against a reappearance of interwar fascism, and that the Left that claims
- Author: Gottfried, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501759353
- Language: English
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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters
$26.95 Add to cartThe Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts
- Author: Kraus, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501747312
- Language: English
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All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation Between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and
$22.00 Add to cartA Study of the Disputation between Bartlome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda on the religious and iltellectual capacity of the American Indians.
- Author: Hanke, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0875805639
- Language: English
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In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chia
$28.00 Add to cartBartolomu00e9 de Las Casas championed the rights of the Indians of Mexico and Central America, disputing a widely held belief that they were “beasts” to be enslaved. In a dramatic debate in 1550 with
- Author: de Las Casas, Bartolomé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0875805566
- Language: English
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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago
$22.95 Add to cartCity of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago’s development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today’s robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose live
- Author: Spinney, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1501748963
- Language: English
