Haight Words

Haight Words
Author: Lori Pino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646633425

Haight Words presents an anthology of thoughtful poetry from people sharing their experiences of being homeless on one of the most famous streets in one of the most prosperous cities in the world: San Francisco, the heart of America's tech revolution. Colorful illustrations accompanying the writings serve as a visual commentary to the growing plight in so many of our communities. Haight Words' provocative approach aims to awaken the senses through illumination of silenced voices. It sends an invitation to challenge social constructs by taking the smallest of actions toward a collective shift that can prove profoundly beneficial to all concerned.

Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size
Author: I.S.P. Nation
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902726029X

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most methodologically contentious areas of research in applied linguistics, with estimates of adults’ vocabulary size ranging from 12,000 words to well over 200,000 words. This book reviews over one hundred years of research, critically examining the methodological issues and findings at each age level from young children to adults, and suggesting solutions. It presents a model organising the factors involved in vocabulary growth and is rich in well-researched suggestions for supporting native-speaker vocabulary learning. It concludes with topics for further research. The research shows that we now have a more stable and coherent picture of what and how much vocabulary native-speakers know, and how this knowledge grows throughout their lives.

Architects of the Self

Architects of the Self
Author: Calvin Bedient
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520347226

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

George Eliot's Early Novels

George Eliot's Early Novels
Author: U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1968
Genre: Didactic fiction, English
ISBN:

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers
Author: Brenda Ayres
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-11-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319567500

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History

Old Catholic and Philippine Independent Ecclesiologies in History
Author: Peter-Ben Smit
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004214984

This study researches the historical development of the self-understanding of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Throughout the 20th century, both churches have been in a developing relationship with each other, resulting in full communion in 1965. In the same time period, both churches developed an ecclesiological self-understanding in which an ecclesiology of the national church gradually gave way to an ecclesiology of the local church. By outlining this development for each of these two churches and comparing the developments, the study gives insight both into the individual development of the two churches involved and shows how these developments relate to each other. In this way, the study presents a new historical portrait of these churches and their self-understanding.

A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area

A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Anthony Ashbolt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 131732188X

The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.