Illiterate America
Illiterate America

Author: Jonathan Kozol

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0307800571

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It is startling and it is shaming: in a country that prides itself on being among the most enlightened in the world, 25 million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a letter from their child’s teacher, or the front page of a newspaper. An additional 35 million read below the level needed to function successfully in our society. The United States ranks forty-ninth among 158 member nations of the UN in literacy, and wastes over $100 billion annually as a result. The problem is not merely an embarrassment, it is a social and economic disaster. In Illiterate America, Jonathan Kozol, author of National Book Award-winning Death at an Early Age, addresses this national disgrace. Combining hard statistics and heartrending stories, he describes the economic and the human costs of illiteracy. Kozol analyses and condemns previous government action—and inaction—and, in a passionate call for reform, he proposes a specific program to conquer illiteracy. One out of every three American adults cannot read this book—which is why everyone else must.

Color Television Receivers
Color Television Receivers

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13:

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Report to the President on investigation no. 332-95 under section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley
Decorated Furniture of the Mahantongo Valley

Author: Henry M. Reed

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13:

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Exuberantly painted and decorated furniture made during the first half of the nineteenth century in the Mahantongo Valley of southeastern Pennsylvania, about 25 miles north of Harrisburg, by Pennsylvania Germans.

American Fancy
American Fancy

Author: Sumpter T. Priddy

Publisher: Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780972435390

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Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that pleased the senses; generally colorful and boldly patterned, it elicited delight, awe, surprise, whim, and caprice. Whether experienced in the form of painted surfaces, kaleidoscopic quilts, or imaginary landscapes, Fancy engaged the emotions and expanded the imagination, expressing the core of human fancy. "American Fancy" offers an appropriately fantastic experience of this uniquely American sensibility. Author Sumpter Priddy has assembled and produced an original oeuvre in the field of decorative arts, going beyond the traditional modes of furniture analysis, which concentrate on style, history, and construction, to consider the perceptual and emotional responses through which the original users and viewers would have interacted with these material things. To this end he employs the interpretive methods used in the fields of literature, fine arts, philosophy and even psychology. Rich, fully illustrated, wondrously researched, and bound in a cover that imitates a typical Fancy pattern, "American Fancy" does its marvelous subject true.