The story behind Faygo, a Detroit soft drink company since 1907. The Faygo Book is the social history of a company that has forged a bond with a city and its residents for more than a century. The story of Faygo, Detroit's beloved soda pop, begins over a hundred years ago with two Russian immigrant brothers who were looking to get out of the baking business. Starting with little more than pots, pails, hoses, and a one-horse wagon, Ben and Perry Feigenson reformulated cake frosting recipes into carbonated beverage recipes and launched their business in the middle of the 1907 global financial meltdown. It was an improbable idea. Through recessions and the Great Depression, wartime politics, the rise and fall of Detroit's population, and the neverending challenges to the industry, the Feigensons persisted. Out of more than forty bottlers in Detroit's ""pop alley,"" Faygo remained the last one standing. Within the pages of The Faygo Book, author Joe Grimm carefully measures out the ingredients of a successful beverage company in spite of dicey economic times in a boom-and-bust town. Take a large cup of family-when the second generation of Feigensons gambled with the chance at national distribution while the odds were stacked against them-and add a pinch of innovation-not just with their rambunctious rainbow of flavors but with packaging and television advertising that infused Faygo with nostalgia. Mix in a quality product-award-winning classics (and some flops) that they insisted on calling ""pop"" despite the industry's plea for a more grown-up name. Stir in a splash of loyalty to its locally hired employees, many of whom would stay withFaygo for decades. These are the values on which Faygo has hung its hat for generations, making it an integral part of communities across the country. The Faygo Book is the story of a pop, a people, and a place. These stories and facts will tickle the taste buds and memories of Detroiters and Faygo lovers everywhere.

Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press has combined a fascinating collection of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia in this rare glimpse at Michigan's past. Based on a series of articles that appeared in the "Chronicles" column of the Detroit Free Press Sunday magazine from 1985 to 1987, Michigan Voices introduces the reader to a more personal side of the state's history. Excerpts from historical documents include Cadillac's proposal of 1700 to establish Detroit and Roger Andrews' crusade for an independent Upper Peninsula in 1916. Among the chronicles Grimm has uncovered are humorous letters from a World War I recruit, an engaging series of correspondences between a Flint schoolgirl and Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy during the Great Depression, and an interview with Kenneth C. Welch, the revolutionary architect and planner who developed the mall/shopping center concept in 1946.

"One Hundred Questions and Answers About Arab Americans" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series on cultural competence. This guide has sections culture, language, religions, social norms, politics, history, politics, families and food. The guide is intended for people in business, schools, places of worship, government, medicine, law enforcement, human resources and journalism-anywhere it is important to know more about communities. We intended this guide for individuals and for groups. Questions include: Who are Arab Americans? How many Arab Americans are there? How are they distributed by nationality? What are the population centers for Arab Americans? Do Arab Americans have a shared language? Do Arab Americans have a shared religion? How does conflict in the Middle East affect Arab Americans? To which places do Arab Americans trace their ancestry? Is Palestine a country? Isn't Iran an Arab country? Are there other cultural groups from the Arab region? Who are Chaldeans? Many recently immigrated Arab Americans also know French. Why is that? How is Arabic written? Are characters in Arabic different than those used in English? When did Arab people come to the United States? Why do Arabs first come to the United States? What race are Arab Americans? Are Arabs a minority group? Are Arab Americans more closely tied to their country of origin, or to America? Who are some well-known Arab Americans? How do Arab Americans fare economically? What is the role of the family in Arab culture? Do Arab Americans maintain ties with their home countries? What are gender roles like for Arab Americans? Are Arab-American household larger than other American households? What kind of relationship does cousin mean to Arab Americans? Are marriages arranged? Are there Arab conventions for naming children? Why do some Arab women wear garments that cover their head or face? What is the checked garment some Arab men wear on their heads? Why do some Arab women dress in black? Why do some Arab men decline to shake hands with women? What is Middle-Eastern food like? What is that elaborate pipe people sometimes smoke? What religion are Arab Americans? Who are Coptics? Are most Arabs in the world Muslim? Is Islam mostly an Arab religion? What is the Quran? What is the difference between Islam and Muslim? What are the five pillars of Islam? What is Ramadan? What does hajj mean? What is the difference between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims? Are there conventions for entering a mosque? Who is an imam? Where is the headquarters for Islam? Is the Nation of Islam related to Islam? What does Allah mean? Why do Muslims face east when they pray? How do Arabs vote? Do Arab Americans run for office? Is there an Arab lobby? When do I say Arab, Arabic or Arabian? Do people prefer Arab American, or American Arab? How do movies and TV shows portray Arab characters? Are Arabs oil-rich? Are Arabs terrorists? What is meant by the phrase "Islamic fundamentalist"? Is Islam a violent religion? Are Arab-American women subservient to men? Are women who wear scarves and other coverings oppressed? This guide is published with John Hile of David Crumm Media, which publishes the Read the Spirit website.

The New Bullying: How social media, social exclusion, laws and suicide have changed our definition of bullying - and what to do about it" is primarily concerned with the issue of how bullying has changed from about 1997 to 2012. The authors' thesis was that bullying has changed considerably, but that some adults are not aware of the change. This book is intended to document that change. Among the changes that were examined are the rise of cyberbullying, social exclusion as a form of bullying, new laws about school bullying, computer crimes and threats and a growing willingness on the part of the public to talk about bullying and its perceived connection to suicide and violence, especially in schools.

This is the insider's guide to landing -- and acing -- your newspaper internship. These are your strategies for applying, interviewing, succeeding and then using your newspaper internship to launch your career. This book is based on the www.JobsPage.com Web site, which Detroit Free Press Recruiting and Development Editor Joe Grimm created as a strategy guide to newspaper careers. Twenty recruiters, editors and journalists have contributed their advice on interviewing, choosing, negotiating these entry-level jobs and then managing newsroom policies and politics.

White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Ivan H. Walton, late professor of English in the School of Engineering at the University of Michigan, restored the music once heard on schooners of the Great Lakes in Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors. Edited by Joe Grimm, this book gives a firsthand musical picture of how sailors once lived aboard these ships.

Recognizing in the late 1930s, almost too late, that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen, Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages, he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals, hangouts, and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the most colorful periods in American history, discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. These songs lightened sailors' labors, bringing them together while they worked hard on deck and filling their idle hours off watch. They sang as they hoisted sails, pumped out the hold, or tramped around the capstan to weigh anchor. They created songs about food, life aboard the ship, the Old Man, and the girls they left behind. They poked fun at other vessels as well as their own. They sang laments to ghost ships lost in the night or ships torn to pieces in the teeth of a gale.

With its stories, lyrics, musical scores by folksinger/historian Lee Murdock, and accompanying CD, Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundredyears can be heard again and again far into the future.