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A close-up look at Chicago during the 1920s offers a fascinating portrait of a crime-ridden city that became the murder capital of the United States during the era of the Jazz Age and critically analyzes the repercussions of Chicago's criminal and violent past on the events of the present day.

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9780393060300 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A close-up look at Chicago during the 1920s offers a fascinating portrait of a crime-ridden city that became the murder capital of the United States during the era of the Jazz Age and critically analyzes the repercussions of Chicago's criminal and violent past on the events of the present day.

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9780393330595 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 28, 2008), cover price $15.95

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A noted photo historian researches the life and world of a lesser-known New York City photographer who lived in a run-down hotel, presenting a psychoanalytic dissection of the artist's tortured soul as reflected in his works depicting such subjects as the cityscape, children, angry women, and his own daily portraits.

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9780393061116 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Exloores the life and world of a lesser-known New York City photographer who lived in a run-down hotel, presenting a psychoanalytic dissection of the artist's tortured soul as reflected in his works.

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Collects more than four hundred rarely seen or previously unpublished photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 by the Farm Security Administration, depicting such subjects as dispossessed rural society, large cities, and small towns throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. 10,000 first printing.

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9780393049435 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Collects more than four hundred rarely seen or previously unpublished photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 by the Farm Security Administration, depicting such subjects as dispossessed rural society, large cities, and small towns throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

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Gathers together excerpts from the Wisconsin 'Badger State Banner' between 1885 and 1990, and photographs from the same period

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9780826321930 | 2 reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $34.95
9780385412155 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, January 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | also contains Autism Spectrum Disorder and De-escalation Strategies: A Practical Guide to Positive Behavioural Interventions for Children and Young People | About this edition: Gathers together excerpts from the Wisconsin 'Badger State Banner' between 1885 and 1990, and photographs from the same period

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Photographs document American daily life, development, agriculture, family life, and industry during the first decade of the twentieth century

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9781565843820 | New Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Photographs document American daily life, development, agriculture, family life, and industry during the first decade of the twentieth century

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9781565844858 | New Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Photographs document American daily life, development, agriculture, family life, and industry during the first decade of the twentieth century

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The roots of heroism, such as the taxi driver who is stabbed while protecting a neighbor and the man who refuses a comfortable life to register black voters in Mississippi, are located in weakness expressed as ultimate strength

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9780374249472 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The roots of heroism, such as the taxi driver who is stabbed while protecting a neighbor and the man who refuses a comfortable life to register black voters in Mississippi, are located in weakness expressed as ultimate strength

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Explores death in society by speaking to professionals who deal with it every day, from people who work in a slaughterhouse to two competing funeral home directors

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9780374157562 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | also contains The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014

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9780385260343, titled "Forbidden Zone" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, January 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Explores death in society by speaking to professionals who deal with it every day, from people who work in a slaughterhouse to two competing funeral home directors

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Photographs document American daily life, wartime experiences, disasters, family life, agriculture, and industry

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9780394749426 | Pantheon Books, December 1, 1982, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Photographs document American daily life, wartime experiences, disasters, family life, agriculture, and industry

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Product Description: This is a wonderful book, Michael Lesy is outstanding, I have just learned of his work and have purchased about everything I can get my hands on. This book will make you think a little more about those photographs you wondered about in the family albums, and inspire you to ask questions about them, before the stories are lost...read more

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9780394739588 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | also contains Questions and Answers + Live Well | About this edition: This is a wonderful book, Michael Lesy is outstanding, I have just learned of his work and have purchased about everything I can get my hands on.

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