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The Spread, Functions, and Models of Non-native Englishes
''What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcation of an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic. . . . [Kachru] is to be congratulated for having taken us as far as he already has and for doing so in so stimulating and so productive a fashion.''-- World Englishes ''A potent addition to theoretical, ......
''Abraham Lincoln was a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1834 to 1842 -- one of the Long Nine, as the Sangamon County delegation was known, all its members being more than six feet tall. It was during these eight years that he came as close to scandal as he was ever to come in his public or private life. Did he, or did he not, engage in ......
Addams examines the causes for the discontent of youth in the city and argues for the importance of providing direction and focus for the pent-up energies of young men and women''We may either smother the divine fire in youth or we may feed it,'' Jane Addams writes. Suffused with Addams's abiding compassion, tempered with her pragmatism and humor, ......
''Believers in conspiracy are not discouraged by the lack of evidence, because they can easily convince themselves that the evidence has been destroyed by conspirators seeking to protect themselves or others.'' As William Hanchett suggests, believers in conspiracies are a determined and passionate lot. For more than a century now, they have been ......
Cumulative Index. Edited by Louis R. HARLAN and Raymond W. SMOCK
Hailed by John Hope Franklin as ''a major event by any standards,'' The Booker T. Washington Papers are, according to Benjamin Quarles, ''of the greatest significance for the study of race relations in America.'' The project now draws to a close with Volume 14, the cumulative index to this collection of the selected writings and correspondence of ......
The celebrated composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Noss traces Hindemith's musical career in America, concentrating upon his first three U.S. concert tours and his thirteen-year tenure as a professor, teacher, and performer at Yale University.
Combining her other research with interviews of nearly fifty Italian immigrants of her grandparents' generation, Adria Bernardi has crafted a memorable oral history of a community of working-class immigrants. Bernardi tells their story clearly and with care, interspersing transcriptions and translations with her own recollections and ......
''An authoritative account of the semantic conception of theories by one of its chief developers. Suppe has always seen the semantic conception as providing a way of moving beyond empiricist philosophies of science. This book provides the definitive account of his views not only on the issue of realism, but also on a variety of other issues ......
''The best study yet written about the ex-slave as urban wage-earner. It is essential reading for students of Afro-American and working-class history.'' -- Herbert Gutman''This book shows that black and white workers could act together and that a working-class reform movement, at least in one southern city, could challenge the existing status quo. ......
