Jacktown: History & Hard Times at Michigan S First State Prison - Judy Gail Krasnow

Reducere. Competing with the likes of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Jackson won the battle to build Michigan s first state prison in 1838. During the era of the Big...

America's single bloodiest day was at the Battle of Antietam, and Michigan played a prominent role. Discover the state's connections to the Lost Or...

Reducere. First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relatio...

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Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public recor...

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Reducere. Michigan's small towns have great stories. Little Michigan presents 100 towns with populations under 600. From the state's long mining history to i...

Reducere. While going through local 19th century newspapers online, I came across this two-installment article written in 1893 by Rev. Dr. A. W. Mangum about...

Reducere. The against-all-odds story of a World War II era steam locomotive and the determination of two generations of volunteers to keep it running comes a...

Reducere. The Presence of the Paranormal ""As with all things spiritual, it is the subjective experience that breathes life into what we believe. . . "" -- R...

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Reducere. Bold Boys in Michigan History-a companion to Great Girls in Michigan History-explores the stories of twenty boys who did some amazing things before...

Reducere. The fifth edition of Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State presents an update of the best college-level survey of Michigan history, covering...

Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple, Texas, and take care of her husband, raise her t...

From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such a...

Reducere. Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels. Dominoe...

DescriptionA sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times...

Reducere. With a history that stretches over a century, the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is one of the oldest in college football. The two teams claim a combi...

Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, CXCLevel & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature, CAPE LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: ...

Reducere. This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings h...

Cute Animals for Hard Times offers an adorable oasis, the tried-and-true cure for a sad day--ridiculously cute animals. In a world full of politica...

Louisa is the practical daughter of a powerful industrialist. Sissy is the imaginative daughter of a clown. What will happen when two such differen...

Reducere. When Consumers Power's plan to build a nuclear power plant in Midland, Michigan, was announced in 1967, it promised to free Michigan residents from...

Examines European museums' efforts to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. The book show...

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Heid E. Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of con...

Reducere. It was 1831 when Father Frederic Baraga arrived in this country from his native Slovenia. He had come to bring Christianity to the Ottawa and Chipp...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2016) - Michigan Notable Books - (Notable Book)Contributor(s): Author: Patricia MajherA deep-sea diver, a dancer, an activist, an av...

This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about African Americans and Blacks in everyday conversation. It has a...

This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imaginat...

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Reducere. The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figur...

Reducere. In 1930s East Texas, fourteen-year-old Amelia Laxault's father insists she marry Arnold Critchin, a local boy who assaulted her on their first date...

'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to ...

Reducere. Why do totalitarian propagandas such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ...

Never before translated in English, this 1973 discussion between Rene Girard (1923-2015) and other prominent scholars represents one of the most si...

This work charts the life of 19th-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast John Louis O'Sullivan. It presents an in-depth examinati...

Publisher: Seashell Publishers Pty LtdAuthor(s): Andrew MatthewsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 236 x 183 x 15Cover type: Pap...

Leadership has never played a more prominent role in America's national discourse, and yet our opinions of leaders are at all-time lows. Private se...

Part of the Evergreen series, this new edition contains a wealth of material.

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family w...

Filled with cartoons, and inspiring stories of people who have lost everything they had or almost been beaten by alcohol, illness, abuse or outrage...

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