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Patrick Butler

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Hidden History

If there's any place in Chicago that's been all things to all men, it has to be the corner of the city that is occupied by Edgewater and Uptown. Babe Ruth and Mahatma Gandhi found a place of refuge at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, but the locale has also been a sanctuary for Appalachian coal miners and Japanese Americans released from internment camps. Al Capone reportedly moved booze through a secret tunnel connecting the Green Mill and the Aragon Ballroom, "Burglar Cops" moonlit out of the ...

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Patrick Butler

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Hidden History

It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during World War II? If you want to visit the days when the Cubs were the Spuds or debate whether Rave...

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Patrick Butler

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Hidden History

Before Lincoln Park cemented its trendy reputation, plenty of odd and unruly history managed to settle into its foundation. A Viking ship, mob henchmen and ladies of the evening all took up residence in the same part of town where Dwight L. Moody went from selling soles to saving souls. Thanks to a Confederate ferryboat crewman, many of Lincoln's personal effects belong to the neighborhood named after him. Patrick Butler uncovers Lincoln Park's forgotten contributions to Chicago's heritage...

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Melvin Patrick Ely

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Janina Edwards, Ron Butler

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamicsA white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and finds himself charged with a criminal offense; an overseer ends up dead after getting drunk with a slave; two men, one poor and white and the other enslaved, team up to plot a murder.

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F. Patrick Butler

Paris in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries was home to some of the most creative people on earth. These men and women, whose names are so famous, are now acclaimed as revolutionaries of the human spirit. But, they were a sleazy lot. Their vaunted reputations notwithstanding, these people were just as sick as the best of us, and we don't have to bend over far to see the underbelly of fame.

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Timothy Patrick Butler

The book is in three parts first is an autiobiographical essay. The second part is a screenplay based on true events and partly fictionalized. The third part of the book is several of the authors poems.

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Timothy Patrick Butler

Timothy P. Butler has written nearly 500 poems covering a range of topics.

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Patrick Butler Lt. Col

Go Beyond the FAR!The guidance contained in the almost 2000 pages of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the various agency supplements are just a part of the resources government acquisition professionals need to do their jobs effectively. Accessing and understanding case law is equally important to a thorough understanding of government contracting. Legal decisions explain the Government Accountability Office's and the courts' views on how procurement...

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Nathaniel Butler, Adam Silver

40 years of stunning basketball photography—both on the court and off—from one of the sport's greatest chroniclers. This handsome coffee table book is the perfect gift for the basketball fan in your life.As one of the NBA’s premier photographers, Nathaniel S. Butler has shot it all. From iconic moments like Ray Allen’s corner three to intimate portraits of Bill Russell and the NBA50 and NBA75 teams to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and Steph Curry clinching champio...

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Patrick Barrett, Beatrice Hale, Mary Butler

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Social Sciences (R0)

Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for adults who acquire a disability through accidents or illness, for older people with age-relate...

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Bradley C. Brooks, Nancy E. Villa Bryk, Patrick H. Butler, Jamie Credle, Rex M. Ellis, Catherine Howett, Patricia L. Kahle, Meggett B. Lavin, Barbara Abramoff Levy, Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, Valerie Coons McAllister, Margaret Piatt, Debra A. Reid

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American Association for State and Local History

Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physica...

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Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nicole A. Lamy

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Nicole A. Lamy, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Allyson Ryan, Shawn K. Jain, Jane Oppenheimer, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Mark Bramhall, Ron Butler, Lindsey Dorcus, Dan Bittner, Victoria Villarreal, Elyse Dinh

Featuring multiple narrators, each story is brought vivdly to life.Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the presen...