Author: Kali Joy Cramer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493059602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwise unexplained events that have occurred in Chicago’s short history. Author Kali Joy Cramer uncovers the sinister foundations of Chicago’s urban legends and unravels the facts around its most notorious murder cases. She looks below the superficial stories of Chicago’s most infamous characters and chronicles the tragic accidents that left their mark on the city.
Sinister Chicago
Author: Kali Joy Cramer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493059602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwise unexplained events that have occurred in Chicago’s short history. Author Kali Joy Cramer uncovers the sinister foundations of Chicago’s urban legends and unravels the facts around its most notorious murder cases. She looks below the superficial stories of Chicago’s most infamous characters and chronicles the tragic accidents that left their mark on the city.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493059602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwise unexplained events that have occurred in Chicago’s short history. Author Kali Joy Cramer uncovers the sinister foundations of Chicago’s urban legends and unravels the facts around its most notorious murder cases. She looks below the superficial stories of Chicago’s most infamous characters and chronicles the tragic accidents that left their mark on the city.
Sinister Yogis
Author: David Gordon White
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226895157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226895157
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.
Something Sinister
Author: Hayan Charara
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
ISBN: 9780887486050
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Poetry
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
ISBN: 9780887486050
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
New Poetry
Chicago Beer
Author: June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439674612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping every so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shoulders.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439674612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered with portraits of infamous saloonkeepers and profiles of historic bars. Author June Sawyers serves as an expert guide, stopping every so often to collect a vintage beer label, explain an original recipe or salute the heady history that sits atop the City of Big Shoulders.
Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists
Author: Sharon Packer, M.D.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786463902
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786463902
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies. This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.
Catalogue of Plays, 1916
Author: Sanger & Jordon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Sinister Savannah
Author: E. Merwin
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1642804142
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
By day, Savannah’s streets are alive. People move among the old buildings. They walk along busy streets. As the sun sets, beware. Savannah’s spirits sometimes rise from their graves! Get ready to read four frightening tales about the city’s spookiest spots. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1642804142
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
By day, Savannah’s streets are alive. People move among the old buildings. They walk along busy streets. As the sun sets, beware. Savannah’s spirits sometimes rise from their graves! Get ready to read four frightening tales about the city’s spookiest spots. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify emergent readers.
Haunted Chicago
Author: Tom Ogden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301238X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301238X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Investigation of Communist Infiltration of Government
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil service
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1534
Book Description