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Mason Spirit is published three times a year by the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations in conjunction with the Office of Communications and Marketing.
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Overcoming Evil God’s Way
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Stephen Russell, BA European Studies ’88 Faith Builders Resource Group, 2008 Various individuals have their own views on violence and despair, and they have their own beliefs on what punishment is considered equal for a violent act of crime. Overcoming Evil God’s Way offers a biblical message that trusts Christians will replace hatred and trepidation…
Two Minutes of Light
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Nancy K. Pearson, MFA Poetry ’05 Perugia Press, 2008 A collection of poems, Two Minutes of Light reveals the struggles many people overcome as they confront the complicated obstacles throughout life. Pearson uses vivid imagination and language to create this beautiful, astonishing, and inspirational collection, which won the 2008 Perugia Press Prize. Originally from Chattanooga,…
Ready for the Defense
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Mike Langan, MFA Creative Writing ’95 and JD ’98 Treble Heart Books, 2008 Langan’s second legal mystery novel, Ready for the Defense, is an intense thriller in which a lawyer, Hank Fisher, must determine who killed his boss and endangered his client, Senator Victoria Serling, after a sudden and deliberate incident. As the investigation continues,…
Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Bill Hirsch, BA Psychology ’71 Dalsimer Press, 2008 Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect guides the reader in the right direction while contemplating the ideal home. The book offers numerous answers to questions about the design process. Hirsch also describes the role of the architect and how he or she will support one’s…
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Hate That Cat
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Sharon Creech, MA English ’79 Joanna Cotler Books, 2008 Hate That Cat is a continuation of one of Creech’s previous novels, Love That Dog. Jack, a character from Hate That Cat, is beginning a new school year with Miss Stretchberry, his teacher from the previous year. Miss Stretchberry introduces new poems that enable her students…
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
By Colleen Kearney Rich on April 4, 2009
The latest book by Mason economics professor Russell Roberts is The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (Princeton University Press, 2008). Told in the form of a novel, it is the story of how prosperity is created and sustained, and the unseen order and harmony that shape people’s lives. This book is…
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To Catch the Lightning: A Novel of American Dreaming
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Alan Cheuse, University Professor, English To Catch the Lightning (Sourcebooks, 2008) is a story of the exploration of a real-life frontier photographer, Edward Curtis, and the American Indian. The book is focused on Curtis’s passion to photograph and document every Indian tribe on the continent. Cheuse portrays Curtis’s determination to make a difference in the…
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Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
A. Lee Fritschler, Professor and Director of Executive Education; Jeremy D. Mayer, Associate Professor; and Bruce L. R. Smith, Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy Examining how American universities have withdrawn from the world of politics, Closed Minds (Brookings Institution Press, September 2008) is based on a study the three authors created in 2007 of…
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Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Randolph Ferguson Scully, Assistant Professor, History In Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia (University of Virginia Press, August 2008), Scully portrays a new interpretation of the rise of evangelical Christianity in the early American South by reconstructing the complex, biracial history of the Baptist movement in southeastern Virginia. Focusing on this region and…
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Neuroergonomics: The Brain at Work
By Mason Spirit contributor on April 4, 2009
Raja Parasuraman, University Professor, Psychology, and Matthew Rizzo In Neuroergonomics (Oxford University Press, February 2008), not only do Parasuraman and Rizzo explain the different parts of the brain and how they work, they also describe various research methods starting at the basic and working up to the more complex, enabling a further essential understanding of…
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