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Biography & Memoires

My Life with Kangaroos A Deaf Woman's Remarkable Story

Herrmann Doris, Gaida Michael, Johl Theres

ISBN: PB: 9781563685590, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 photos

Doris Herrmann was born deaf in 1933 in Basel, Switzerland, and from the age of three, she possessed a mystical attraction to kangaroos. She recalls seeing them at that age for the first time at the Basel Zoo, and spending every spare moment visiting...

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Sign Language

General

Many Ways to Be Deaf International Variation in Deaf Communities

Monaghan Leila, Schmaling Constanze, Nakamura Karen, Turner Graham H.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685781, Gallaudet University Press, January 2013
338 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

The recent explosion of sociocultural, linguistic, and historical research on signed languages throughout the world has culminated in "Many Ways to Be Deaf", an unmatched collection of in-depth articles about linguistic diversity in Deaf communities...

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Russian

Meek One: Fantastic Story An Annotated Russian Reader

Dostoevsky Fyodor, Titus Julia, Robinson Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780300162325, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

This fully annotated paperback learner's edition of Dostoevsky's short story "The Meek One" is intended for intermediate and advanced Russian students. In addition to the Russian text, the book includes an introduction discussing the story's historic...

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Linguistics

Meaning, Form, and Body

Turner Mark, Parrill Fey, Tobin Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...

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Linguistics

Modal Logic for Open Minds

Benthem Johan

ISBN: PB: 9781575865980, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Modal Logic for Open Minds", Johan van Benthem provides an up-to-date introduction to the field of modal logic, outlining its major ideas and exploring the numerous ways in which various academic fields have adopted it. Van Benthem begins with th...

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Poetry

Moon on the Meadow Collected Poems

Taavila Pia

ISBN: PB: 9781563683640, Gallaudet University Press, February 2008
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

As a child of deaf adults (CODA), Pia Taavila first learned to communicate when her deaf father fingerspelled the names of toys in her crib and her mother showed her the signs for objects in picture books. From this primary visual orientation, in com...

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Sign Language

Multilingualism and Sign Languages From the Great Plains to Australia

Lucas Ceil

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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Arabic

Modern Persian, Volume 1 Spoken and Written

Stilo Donald L., Talattof Kamran, Clinton Jerome W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300100518, Yale University Press, April 2005
480 pp., 24x15.6 cm, 1 map

Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate l...

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Arabic

Modern Persian, Volume 2 Spoken and Written

Stilo Donald L., Talattof Kamran, Clinton Jerome W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300100525, Yale University Press, April 2005
480 pp., 24x15.6 cm, 1 map

Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate l...

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Jewish Studies

Dictionaries

Modern English-Hebrew Dictionary

Zilkha Avraham

ISBN: PB: 9780300090055, Yale University Press, April 2002
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This comprehensive English-Hebrew dictionary is designed for easy use, speed and accuracy. Its 30,000 entries include many contemporary technical terms, recently coined Hebrew words, and translations for common idioms. It aims to address the need of...

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