Books published by Academy Chicago Publishers

Presents the history of modernist design. This book features the influence of Bauhaus on interior design - on architecture, furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils.

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Colonel Gracie provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered. John Thayer's account, The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, is meticulously detailed.

Women want to know how to select wine when entertaining important clients, choose the right wines for hostess gifts, bridal showers, a first meeting with a boyfriend's parents and what wine to, or not to, order on a first date. This book supplies tips on these and a myriad of other topics, including 'dating' and 'dealing with guys'.

When bombs began to fall on Warsaw, Julian's world crumbled. His beloved governess Kiki returned to her family in Lodz; Julian's stepfather joined the Polish army and the grief-stricken boy was left with the mother whom he hardly knew. Resourceful and determined, his mother did whatever was necessary to provide for herself and her son: she brazenly cut into food lines and befriended Russian officers to get extra rations of food and fuel. But brought up by Kiki to distrust all things Jewish, Julian considered his mother's behavior un-Christian.

This book traces the Argentine Woman's movement and describes the individuals in its vanguard: women as different in personality and political orientation as the socialist activist Dr. Alicia Moreau de Justo, the international literary figure Victoria Ocampo and the legendary Eva Perón.The story begins with a background sketch of Argentine history, spanning four centuries from the conquistadores to the Peróns. It describes the participation of upper class women in the country's philanthropic establishment thought the Beneficent Society, founded in the early nineteenth century; the development of the public education system- considered the best in Latin America- through the strong contribution of North American female teachers; and the influence of nineteenth century free thought and socialism upon woman's movement. Despite the broadening of education and the positive effect of European immigration upon Argentine institutions, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that woman suffrage was finally achieved--by a bizarre twist of fate through the efforts of the Perón regime, and to the outrage and consternation of most Argentine feminists.

Carolous Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed 'accidental' death of young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolous Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.

This wry, insightful account of what it is like for an American woman living in Russia is a dramatic tale full of insouciant laughter, in which the immediate sense of vivid experience shines on every page. With the sharp eye of an acute observer, Lori Cidylo captures the momentous events no less than the everyday trivia. This is a delightful, surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.

Sam Silverman's autobiography tells how a poor boy from Pinsk built a thriving business in Chicago; weathered two World Wars, the Depression, and the vagaries of fashion; raised a large, talented family; and made the force of his shrewd and happy personality felt from coast to coast. His story is extremely funny and often touching. It is also a genuine contribution to American history.

Elucidating the somber diaspora of Iraqi Jews, this collection of stories explores the migration of a people escaping oppression, only to be confronted with the difficult realities of new nations and customs. This work spans Iraq, Israel and the US. It portrays characters struggling to cope with drastic social changes.

In this comic, witty memoir, John Manderino shows us how the pivotal points of his life have been enmeshed with movie moments. "e;Crying at Movies"e; presents thirty-eight succinct chapters, each bearing the title of a film. It is at once a love-letter to an art form and a humorous appreciation of the distinctions between movie scenes and life's realities.

Provides an account of the author's early life growing up in a commune in rural SW Virginia in the 1960s and 1970s. This book outlines the history of efforts to create a utopian society which demonstrates the fact that no matter how ideally a societal structure is conceived, its enactment cannot escape the imperfections of humans who embody it.

Blaise and his friends make their way to Ascension Seminary to complete their education. There they lead a band of brothers who come to be known as 'the most troublesome class in seminary history'. Underneath the mayhem and merriment is a world of doubt and bewilderment. What should they really be doing with their lives, they ask each other.

Contains twenty-eight stories about the detectives - Sergeant Beef and Sergeant Grebe.

Someone very, very clever planned this murder. The place: a remote shelter on the promenade at Selby-on-Sea; the occasion: a stormy evening in late November; the victim: somebody ready-made for a crack-of-doom from a coal hammer. However, the murderer had not counted on the clever, tenacious mind of Carolus Deene.

There are strange goings-on at St. Asprey's, an expensive boys' preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night...strange lights...rabbits with battered skulls...a face in the window...a puppy found in a pool of blood...and even worse to come. In a tense, chilling atmosphere Carolous Deene has some spine tingling experiences before he solves the mystery of these curious and sinister events.

Mysterious doings in a churchyard. A catalogue of crime calls this ""probably Bruce's wittiest and best-plotted novel to date. A very ingenious idea...a fine surprise in the last moments. The humour and wit are of a high order..."".

Within an hour or two the dead bodies of two elderly ladies are discovered in the vicinity of Buddington-on-the-Hill; both had been strangled. Each is found lying full-length, clasping in her hand the stem of Madonna lily. The work of a maniac? Two murderers working together? It's up to Carolous Deene to find out.

Loves of Yulian is the poignant conclusion to the three-part memoir recounting the author's harrowing WWII escape from occupied Poland to America. After fleeing over the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary, eight-year-old Yulian and his resourceful but self-involved mother, Barbara, are on board a ship to Rio de Janeiro to await their turn for immigration to the United States. A former Warsaw socialite, Barbara has no marketable skills, only her looks, wits and courage. Paying their way by selling the diamonds she had concealed in her clothing, they land in Brazil with only the diamond engagement ring on her finger. Somehow, it must finance both their stay and eventual passage to New York. Yulian, a sensitive Jewish boy raised by an overprotective, devoutly Catholic nanny, has difficulty interacting with other children and concludes that God is punishing him for abandoning Judaism. Complicating matters, he falls in love with a beautiful, but significantly older, fellow refugee, Irenka, who has been hired to take him to the beach. When his mother meets a man she truly cares for, Yulian hopes he has finally found his long-sought-after father figure. But Barbara's European upper-class values clash with her suitor's Latin ardor, leaving Yulian in the middle of a misaligned courtship, which he desperately wants to set right. Eventually, Yulian resolves his spiritual issues with the help of a celebrated Polish poet and his own teddy bear. His ambitious mother, however, must choose between a man she truly loves and her future in America.