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Living Japanese Diversity in Language and Lifestyles, with Online Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300222661, Yale University Press, December 2006
348 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 black&white illus.
"Living Japanese: Diversity in Language and Lifestyles" ("Ikita Nihongo: samazama na kotoba, samazama na seikatsu") draws students into the lives of thirty-three Japanese from ages seven to seventy-five. As students listen to diverse viewpoints on cu...
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£35,00
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Focus on Contemporary Arabic With Online Media
ISBN: PB: 9780300224047, Yale University Press, November 2006
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
"Focus on Contemporary Arabic" is the fifth volume in the Conversations with Native Speakers series, which strives to offer pioneering multimedia language materials to students at the intermediate and advanced levels. These programs consist of a slim...
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£40,00
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Italian Through Film The Classics
ISBN: PB: 9780300109528, Yale University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
"Italian Through Film: The Classics" is a flexible tool for teachers who strive towards content-based instruction and believe that learning a language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based around fifteen classic Italian films which are freq...
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£26,00
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Multilingualism and Sign Languages From the Great Plains to Australia
ISBN: HB: 9781563682964, Gallaudet University Press, November 2006
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables, 66 figures, 25 photos
The latest entry in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series continues to mine the rich resources found in signing communities throughout the world. Divided into four parts, this collection features 16 internationally renowned linguistics expe...
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£47,50
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Signing Fun American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities
ISBN: PB: 9781563682926, Gallaudet University Press, November 2006
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 952 illus.
Here's a great book for every young adult age 11 up, "Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities". Signing is visual, easy to learn, and fun to use. Author Penny Warner offers 441 useful signs on a variety of favor...
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£15,00
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Crossing the Divide Representations of Deafness in Biography
ISBN: PB: 9781563682988, Gallaudet University Press, November 2006
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 photos
This remarkable volume examines the process by which three deaf, French biographers from the 19th and 20th centuries attempted to cross the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds through their work. The very different approach taken by each...
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£22,50
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New Approaches to Interpreter Education
ISBN: HB: 9781563682971, Gallaudet University Press, October 2006
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 4 figures
The latest addition to the Interpreter Education series expands the tools available to instructors with six new, vital chapters on new curricula and creative teaching methods. Series editor Cynthia B. Roy leads the way by calling for the use of a dis...
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£34,00
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Surprised in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones
For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...
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£28,00
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Blind Rage Letters to Helen Keller
ISBN: PB: 9781563682957, Gallaudet University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 photo
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?" Kleege's resentment culminates in her book "Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller", an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned in...
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£15,00
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New Civil Right Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans
ISBN: HB: 9781563682919, Gallaudet University Press, July 2006
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
When three deaf men in the 1960s invented and sold TTYs, the first teletypewriting devices that allowed deaf people to communicate by telephone, they started a telecommunications revolution for deaf people throughout America. "A New Civil Right: Tele...
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£56,50
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