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The History And Uncertain Future Of Handwriting
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Author : Anne Trubek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-09-06
The History And Uncertain Future Of Handwriting written by Anne Trubek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock’s elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg’s printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience.
Handwriting In America
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Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Handwriting In America written by Tamara Plakins Thornton and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with History categories.
In this engaging history, the author demonstrates handwriting in America from colonial times to the present. Exploring such subjects as penmanship, pedagogy, handwriting analysis, autograph collecting, and calligraphy revivals, Thornton investigates the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting. 57 illustrations.
Speak A Short History Of Languages
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Author : Tore Janson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-03-14
Speak A Short History Of Languages written by Tore Janson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. Writing in a lively, readable style, distinguished Swedish scholar Tore Janson makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. He takes the reader on a voyage of exploration through the changing patterns of the world's languages, from ancient China to ancient Egypt, imperial Rome to imperial Britain, Sappho's Lesbos to contemporary Africa. He discovers the links between the histories of societies and their languages; he shows how language evolved from primitive calls; he considers the question of whether one language can be more advanced than another. The author describes the history of writing and looks at the impact of changing technology. He ends by assessing the prospects for English world domination and predicting the languages of the distant future. Five historical maps illustrate this fascinating history of our defining characteristic and most valuable asset.
The History And Uncertain Future Of Handwriting
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Author : Anne Trubek
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-09-06
The History And Uncertain Future Of Handwriting written by Anne Trubek and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with History categories.
"Persuasively argues that our fixation with writing by hand is driven more by emotion than evidence, as it is perceived to be inextricably linked to our history, core values and individual identities."--Los Angeles Times The future of handwriting is anything but certain. Its history, however, shows how much it has affected culture and civilization for millennia. In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures--far from John Hancock's elegant model--have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has had on culture and humanity--from the first recorded handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years ago and the invention of the alphabet as we know it, to the rising value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each innovation over the millennia has threatened existing standards and entrenched interests: Indeed, in ancient Athens, Socrates and his followers decried the very use of handwriting, claiming memory would be destroyed; while Gutenberg's printing press ultimately overturned the livelihood of the monks who created books in the pre-printing era. And yet new methods of writing and communication have always appeared. Establishing a novel link between our deep past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colorful lens through which to view our shared social experience.
The Missing Ink
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Author : Philip Hensher
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2012-11-27
The Missing Ink written by Philip Hensher and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
When Philip Hensher realized that he didn't know what a close friend's handwriting looked like ("bold or crabbed, sloping or upright, italic or rounded, elegant or slapdash"), he felt that something essential was missing from their friendship. It dawned on him that having abandoned pen and paper for keyboards, we have lost one of the ways by which we come to recognize and know another person. People have written by hand for thousands of years— how, Hensher wondered, have they learned this skill, and what part has it played in their lives? The Missing Ink tells the story of this endangered art. Hensher introduces us to the nineteenth-century handwriting evangelists who traveled across America to convert the masses to the moral worth of copperplate script; he examines the role handwriting plays in the novels of Charles Dickens; he investigates the claims made by the practitioners of graphology that penmanship can reveal personality. But this is also a celebration of the physical act of writing: the treasured fountain pens, chewable ballpoints, and personal embellishments that we stand to lose. Hensher pays tribute to the warmth and personality of the handwritten love note, postcards sent home, and daily diary entries. With the teaching of handwriting now required in only five states and many expert typists barely able to hold a pen, the future of handwriting is in jeopardy. Or is it? Hugely entertaining, witty, and thought-provoking, The Missing Ink will inspire readers to pick up a pen and write.
My Father S Books
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Author : Luan Starova
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2012-07-16
My Father S Books written by Luan Starova and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-16 with Fiction categories.
In My Father’s Books, the first volume in Luan Starova’s multivolume Balkan Saga, he explores themes of history, displacement, and identity under three turbulent regimes—Ottoman, Fascist, and Stalinist—in the twentieth century. Weaving a story from the threads of his parents’ lives from 1926 to 1976, he offers a child’s-eye view of personal relationships in shifting political landscapes and an elegiac reminder of the enduring power of books to sustain a literate culture. Through lyrical waves of memory, Starova reveals his family’s overlapping religious, linguistic, national, and cultural histories. His father left Constantinople as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and the young family fled from Albania to Yugoslav Macedonia when Luan was a boy. His parents, cosmopolitan and well-traveled in their youth, and steeped in the cultures of both Orient and Occident, find themselves raising their children in yet another stagnant and repressive state. Against this backdrop, Starova remembers the protected spaces of his childhood—his mother’s walled garden, his father’s library, the cupboard holding the rarest and most precious of his father’s books. Preserving a lost heritage, these books also open up a world that seems wide, deep, and boundless.
College Un Bound
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Author : Jeffrey J. Selingo
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
College Un Bound written by Jeffrey J. Selingo and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Education categories.
Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with intellectual and financial future of America.
A Skeptic S Guide To Writers Houses
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Author : Anne Trubek
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-07-11
A Skeptic S Guide To Writers Houses written by Anne Trubek and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with Travel categories.
There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Voices From The Rust Belt
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Author : Anne Trubek
language : en
Publisher: Picador USA
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Voices From The Rust Belt written by Anne Trubek and has been published by Picador USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Introduction: why the Rust Belt matters (and what it is) / Anne Trubek -- A girl's Youngstown / Jacqueline Marino -- The kidnapped children of Detroit / Marsha Music -- Busing, a white girl's tale / Amanda Shaffer -- Moundsville / David Faulk -- North Park, with and without hate / Jeff Z. Klein -- Love and survival: a Flint romance / Layla Meillier -- A middle-aged student's guide to social work / Dave Newman -- Fresh to death / Eric Woodyard -- Rust belt heroin chic / Ben Gwin -- Will blacks rise or be forgotten in the new Buffalo? / Henry Louis Taylor Jr -- Can Detroit save white people? / Aaron Foley -- Cleveland's little Iraq / Huda al-Marashi -- A night at the Golden Lion Lounge / John Lloyd Clayton -- Family bones / Ryan Schnurr -- The fauxtopias of Detroit's suburbs / James D. Griffioen -- Pretty things to hang on the wall / Eric Anderson -- King Coal and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum / Carolyne Whelan -- Seed or weed: on the evolution of Chicago's Bloomingdale trail / Martha Bayne -- This is a place / Kathryn M. Flinn -- That better place; or, the problem with mobility / G. M. Donley -- Losing Lakewood / Sally Errico -- Notes from the expatriate underground / Margaret Sullivan -- Confessions of a Rust Belt orphan; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Akron / Jason Segedy -- Bathtime / Connor Coyne.
Zaner Bloser Handwriting
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Zaner Bloser Handwriting written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Penmanship categories.
"Handwriting is proven to develop fine motor skills and eye-hand connection, strengthening the ability to translate ideas into words. In fact, it equips students to write and read more efficiently than reading and instruction alone. So when it comes time to assess students' yearly progress, it's not just about reading (or math, or science). It's about preparing confident communicators equipped with cross-disciplinary skills that translate directly to demonstrating proficiency on standardized tests. Zaner-Bloser Handwriting has been carefully designed to support the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards for handwriting. References to the TEKS appear throughout the Student and Teacher Editions."--Page v.