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James Russell Lowell, William A. Pannapacker

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A-Z entries detail the lives, works, and critical reception of more than 70 American writers of the 19th century.

The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women …

Mac Bay Boat Company, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Mac Bay Boat Company is an article concerning the history of the boat building company founded in Holland, Michigan in 1948, moved to Fruitport, Michigan (Muskegon area) in 1956 and went of business in 1962.

Review Of The Torah And The Stoics On Humankind And Nature, By Jan Boersema, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

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A High Throughput Method For The Conversion Of Co2 Obtained From Biochemical Samples To Graphite In Septa-Sealed Vials For Quantification Of 14c Samples Via Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Ted J. Ognibene, Graham Bench, John S. Vogel, Graham F. Peaslee, Steve Murov

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The growth of accelerator mass spectrometry as a tool for quantitative isotope ratio analysis in the biosciences necessitates high-throughput sample preparation. A method has been developed to convert CO2 obtained from carbonaceous samples to solid graphite for highly sensitive and precise 14C quantification. Septa-sealed vials are used along with commercially available disposable materials, eliminating sample cross contamination, minimizing complex handling, and keeping per sample costs low. Samples containing between 0.25 and 10 mg of total carbon can be reduced to graphite in 4 h in routine operation. Approximately 150 samples per 8-h day can be prepared by a single technician.

Living On The Land: A Christian Land Ethic, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

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Education For Homelessness Or Homemaking: The Christian College In A Postmodern Culture, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger, Brian J. Walsh

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Some posit today that colleges and universities—small or large, public or private, Christian or secular—educate people for upward mobility, alienate people from their local habitation, and encourage the vandalism of the earth. In short, they argue that education is in many respects education for global homelessness. Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh agree. In this article they examine these claims, set forth an alternative vision of education, and describe some of the implications of a biblically informed vision. In doing so, they argue that Christian higher education ought explicitly to aim at homecoming and homemaking. Mr. Bouma-Prediger is Professor of Religion …

Review Of Self, Earth, And Society, By Thomas Finger, Steven C. Bouma-Prediger

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Walt Whitman' And 'Ralph Waldo Emerson', William A. Pannapacker

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This anthology brings together under one cover the most important abolitionist and--unique to this volume--proslavery documents written in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War. It makes accessible to students, scholars, and general readers the breadth of the slavery debate. Including many previously inaccessible documents,A House Dividedis a critical and welcome contribution to a literature that includes only a few volumes of antislavery writings and no volumes of proslavery documents in print. Mason Lowance's introduction is an excellent overview of the antebellum slavery debate and its key issues and participants. Lowance also introduces each selection, locating …