Elizabeth Colson. Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century. Lusaka, Zambia: Bookworld Publishers, 2006. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, xii + 305 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
David Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Establishment and Persistence of Sedum spp. and Native Taxa for Green Roof Applications

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Monterusso ◽  
D. Bradley Rowe ◽  
Clayton L. Rugh
Keyword(s):  
Native Species ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Extensive Green Roofs ◽  
The U.S

Although the economic, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of green roofs have been recognized for decades, research quantifying these benefits has been limited—particularly in the U.S. Green roof usage and research is most prevalent in Germany, but can also be seen in several other European countries and Canada. If green roof installations are to be successful in Michigan and the rest of the U.S., then a better understanding of what specific taxa will survive and thrive under harsh rooftop conditions in this geographic area is required. Nine simulated rooftop platforms containing three commercially available drainage systems were installed at Michigan State University. Eighteen Michigan native plants planted as plugs and nine Sedum spp. planted as either seed or plugs were evaluated over three years for growth, survival during both establishment and overwintering, and visual appearance. All Sedum spp. tested were found to be suitable for use on Midwestern green roofs. Of the eighteen native plant taxa tested, Allium cernuum L., Coreopsis lanceolata L., Opuntia humifosa Raf., and Tradescantia ohiensis L. are suitable for use on unirrigated extensive green roofs in Michigan. If irrigation is available, then other native species are potential selections.

Editor’s Introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Harvey Glickman
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
State University ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
University Of Connecticut ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This ISSUE is almost totally comprised of the first half of a two part publication series that relates Africanists to the Africa policy of the U.S. government. As a whole, the two parts—in this and the next ISSUE —review the relationship of the opinions and the activities of the Africanist community outside the U.S. government (mainly academics) to the thrust and substance of policy and the process of policy-making inside the U.S. government. The two major articles in the present ISSUE—on Africanists and U.S. foreign and national security policy by Larry Bowman of the University of Connecticut, and on Africanists and U.S. economic assistance policy by Michael Bratton of Michigan State University—represent the first part.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1178-1180
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Michigan State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
Railroad Industry ◽  
Railway Passenger ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Anthony M. Pagan of the University of Illinois at Chicago reviews “American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century”, by Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the story of the railroad industry that dominated U.S. freight transportation over land at the beginning of the twentieth century, and how it lost its leadership and much of its economic power over the next eighty years, and then was reborn in the last two decades of the century. Discusses the enduring American railroads; the ills of government regulation of rail rates and services; the policy dilemma of competition and consolidation; the impact of rival freight modes on railroads; the decline of railway passenger service, 1900-1970; mergers at midcentury and the Penn Central debacle; two railroad reform and revitalization acts and the Northeast Rail Crisis in the 1970s; the brief, mainly happy life of Conrail, 1976-99; the making of the Staggers Rail Act, and experience under deregulation; how railroads got their final sizes and shapes; the enduring problem of rail passenger service in the Amtrak era; advancing technology for American railroads; the decline and renaissance of American railroads in the twentieth century; and future policies for U.S. railroads. Gallamore retired from the Union Pacific Railroad and Northwestern University, and is Adjunct Professor in the Rail Management Program at Michigan State University. The late Meyer was James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation Emeritus in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.”

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