Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this state composed of two peninsulas more or less surrounded by Great Lakes water

Darwin's classic study of the emotional life of humans and animals, first published in 1872, explores the diverse ways in which people of different cultures, as well as animals of various species, express their feelings. UP.

Based on extensive interviews with prisoners and officials, this book chronicles the riot that took place at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in February, 1980 and came to be judged as the most savage prison riot in American history

ONE may foretell with comparative certainty the character of this novel by Hamlin Garland. It is be “Western” in a sense that many of the writers of wild West stories cannot attain because of their lack of the long knowledge which are Garland’s surest asset and also his snare. He makes no mistakes in some things. He is not likely to mix the dialects of New England and New York with the Western vernacular; a canon or a mesa will be properly set in his pages, and bits of description will be not only accurate, but exquisite. It has seemed sometimes that many authors cannot draw a 'gentleman.' But in "Money Magic," Garland has achieved a better hero than ever before. Mart Haney, ex-gambler. and saloonkeeper, suddenly rich, but keeping his head and singularly free from the offensiveness of the usual type of newly rich, is a gentleman; as fine as the frank, boyish and unspoiled girl whom he lifts from the ghastly and sordid poverty Garland is so fond of depicting into a life of ease and luxury made possible by the magic of great wealth.

Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, culture, famous sites and people of the Bluegrass State