"A wonderful blend of substance and snark—both a useful reference and a fun (yes, fun) read."—Mignon Fogarty, New York Times-bestselling author of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better WritingQ. Is it happy medium or happy median?A. The idiom is happy medium, but I like the image of commuters taking refuge from road rage on the happy median.Every month, tens of thousands of self-declared word nerds conver...

The Chicago Blackhawks' 2015 postseason run culminated in the team's third Stanley Cup since 2010, the sixth championship in the Original Six franchise's history. The road to hoisting the Cup was the bumpiest of Chicago's three titles under head coach Joel Quenneville. The Blackhawks finished third in the NHL's Central Division following a season in which key players, including Patrick Kane and Corey Crawford, missed time due to injury. But the Hawks stormed past Nashville, Minnesota and A...

A collection of contest-quality cookies (and other sweets) for your seasonal celebrations!This cookbook gathers together the best recipes from more than a decade's worth of reader submissions to the Chicago Tribune's annual Holiday Cookie Contest. It's an eclectic and delicious mix of recipes both traditional and modern, representing diverse cultures and accompanied by color photos and helpful baking tips.From cookie classics to twists on old standar...

Indexing A–Z from The Chicago Manual of Style—the undisputed authority for style, usage, and grammar.In this age of searchable text, the need for an index made with human input is sometimes questioned. But a good index can do what a plain search cannot: It gathers all the substantive terms and subjects of the work, sorts them alphabetically, provides cross-references to and from related terms, and includes specific page numbers or other locators or...

The history of Chicago's first major league team, packed with photos, stories, and profiles from the archives of their hometown newspaper.The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Cubs is a decade-by-decade look at one of baseball's most beloved (if hard-luck) teams, starting with the franchise's beginnings in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings and ending with the triumphant 2016 World Series championship.For over a century, the Chicago Tribune

This first issue of 2012 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and its issues of policy and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism, charter and Catholic schools, Amish one-room schools, minority students, empirical work on religious schools, federalism, equal opportunity, and higher-education accreditation.In additi...

Seasonal recipes for summer dining, from cookout staples to cocktails—selected by the award-wining food writers of the Chicago Tribune.All year long, we look forward to a summertime filled with cookouts, picnics, beach trips, and dinner parties on the patio. From the first flower's bloom to the moment the leaves begin to turn, the summer season is always an exciting dash to spend time outside with good friends and family. While the winter months are filled...

A selection of no-fail, simple bread recipes—from muffins to pancakes to sweet and savory loaves from the Chicago Tribune's award-winning food writers.Good Eating's Quick Breads provides a broad selection of quick bread recipes—all of which are made with a leavening agent like baking powder or soda instead of yeast to permit immediate baking—that are easily prepared and always enjoyed.An engaging and helpful introduction to baking quick br...

A compendium of outrageous, hilarious or just plain shocking trivia about everything from history and politics to arts, religion, technology and much more.For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of subjects. This volume collects the best of these columns, offering readers obscure, fascinating facts on universal topics that will appeal to everyone from sports fans ...

It has been called the last great American sports story, a quest that has spanned more than a century and captivated millions of fans. In 2016, the Chicago Cubs were at last baseball's champions, breaking the Curse of the Billy Goat and shedding the label of "lovable losers" once and for all. Led by manager Joe Maddon and built around rising stars Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, the Cubs brought the Fall Classic back to the ivy-covered confines of Wrigley Field for the first time since 1945...

"A substantial resource that will allow parents to develop a broader and deeper understanding of the curriculum's philosophy, emphasis, and structure." —Stacy Brown, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaThough used in 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students, the Everyday Mathematics (EM) program often leaves parents perplexed. The curriculum isn't linear, but rather spirals back and forth, weaving concepts in and out of lessons that build over...

When a congregation creates its own prayer book, it demonstrates a commitment to its unique identity. In publishing our own book of prayers, we also devote considerable effort to offering an exceptionally meaningful worship experience for all who enter its doors. This newest edition of The Union Prayer Book stands firmly in Chicago Sinai Congregation's tradition, stretching back to 1861, of continually searching for the most fitting book of liturgy for our House of Prayer for All People. T...