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Smart Language
The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the 9th-grade level, with nearly half reading below that level. The second part of this work covers the efforts made to match texts with readers. The research shows that more readable texts increase comprehension, retention, reading speed, and persistence. Other studies show how factors in both the reader and the text contribute to reading ease. Finally, the work follows the development of the readability formulas and the controversies that surrounded them. George Klare's Readability Ranking Test is appended. An index is included. (Contains 14 figures and 9 tables.).
Unlocking Language
This book brings to students of reading ten landmark studies of educational pioneers such as Edward L. Thorndike, William S. Gray, Ralph Tyler, and Edgar Dale.
The Priest and the Cardinal
As racial tensions in Los Angeles were escalating in the 1960s, a young Catholic priest, William DuBay, held a press conference in which he asked Pope Paul VI to remove Cardinal McIntyre from office as Archbishop of Los Angeles because of his opposition to the civil-rights movement. The next four chapters describe the conflicts with the Cardinal that led up to that shocking departure from accepted protocol. The last three chapters describe the aftermath of the press conference including the publication of DuBay's book, The Human Church. This work highlighted the structural faults in the Church that were causing the exodus of millions of Catholics, priests, and nuns from the Church. In a few years, one out of ten Americans would be ex-Catholic. As the story will show, DuBay was not acting alone, but always supported by many others, including fellow priests and a dedicated group of laypeople called Catholics United for Racial Equality (CURE). This is their story, too.
Gay Identity
The author proposes that gay identity is one of the great myths of our age. He sets forth the premise that there exists an evident distinction between 1) homosexual feelings, 2) homosexual behavior, and 3) the homosexual role. The argument presented here is that homosexual feelings play a minor part in becoming gay, which chiefly is the result of adopting the homosexual role. The gay myth is responsible for the creation of the gay community, which is an assemblage, not of people who share the same sexual orientation (they don't), but of those who have adopted the gay role.
From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend
Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book “[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor”, enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal). Now, the authors have...
Fire Within
This book is the fruit of Fr. Dubay's many years of study and experience in spiritual direction and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer--St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila--and the teaching of Sacred Scripture. But the teaching that Fr. Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant for every Christian and is based on the Gospel imperative of personal prayer and the call to holiness. All the major elements of these great teachers are ordered, commented on and put in the context of their scriptural foundations. Here is an outstanding book on prayer and the spiritual life written by one of the best spiritual directors and retreat masters of our time, and based on the writings of the Church's two greatest mystical doctors.
The Rebirth of Nature
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's preeminent biologists, has revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing universe--one with its own inherent memory. In The Rebirth of Nature, Sheldrake urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining why we can no longer regard the world as inanimate and purposeless. Sheldrake shows how recent developments in science itself have brought us to the threshold of a new synthesis in which traditional wisdom, intuitive experience, and scientific insight can be mutually enriching.
Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please
Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please seeks to change public and legal writing--by making the ultimate case for plain language. The book gathers a large body of evidence for two related truths: using plain language can save businesses and government agencies a ton of money, and plain language serves and satisfies readers in every possible way. It also debunks the ten biggest myths about plain writing and looks back on 50 highlights in plain-language history. The first edition was described by reviewers as "powerful," "compelling," "inspiring," and "astounding." This second edition has been updated and expanded throughout. Professor Joseph Kimble is a leading international expert on this subject. Here is the book that sums up his important work, with a message that is vital to every government writer, business writer, and attorney.
Happy are You Poor
To the modern mind, the concept of poverty is often confused with destitution. But destitution emphatically is not the Gospel ideal. A love-filled sharing frugality is the message, and Happy Are You Poor explains the meaning of this beatitude lived and taught by Jesus himself. But isn't simplicity in lifestyle meant only for nuns and priests? Are not all of us to enjoy the goodness and beauties of our magnificent creation? Are parents to be frugal with the children they love so much? The renowned spiritual writer Dubay gives surprising replies to these questions. He explains how material things are like extensions of our persons and thus of our love. If everyone lived this love there would be no destitution. After presenting the richness of the Gospel message, more beautiful than any other world view, he explains how Gospel frugality is lived in each state of life.
