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I Fill This Small Space The Writings of a Deaf Activist

Newman Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9781563684081, Gallaudet University Press, August 2009
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lawrence Newman became deaf at the age of five in 1930, and saw his father fight back tears knowing that his son would never hear again. The next time he saw his father cry was in 1978, when Newman received an honorary doctorate from Gallaudet Univer...

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Network Power The Social Dynamics of Globalization

Singh Grewal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300151343, Yale University Press, June 2009
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of imperson...

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Deaf People Around the World Educational and Social Perspectives

Moores Donald F., Miller Margery S.

ISBN: HB: 9781563684104, Gallaudet University Press, May 2009
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 24 tables, 4 figures, 3 photos

In "Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives", the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional...

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Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology

Uberoi Patricia, Sundar Nandini, Deshpande Satish

ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm

Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...

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How to be a Good Husband

ISBN: HB: 9781851243761, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm

The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns de...

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How to be a Good Wife

ISBN: HB: 9781851243815, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2008
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books.Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delig...

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Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

Sofos Spyros A., Ozkirimli Umut

ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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BUG Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution

Heuer Christopher John

ISBN: PB: 9781563683572, Gallaudet University Press, September 2007
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"What you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from" – From the Foreword, John Lee Clark Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a lot as a kid...

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Through Deaf Eyes A Photographic History of an American Community

Baynton Douglas, Gannon Jack R., Lindquist Bergey Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781563683473, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour photos

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition "History Through Deaf Eyes", representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curat...

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