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Genetics, Disability, and Deafness
ISBN: PB: 9781563685767, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand begins this wide-ranging volume with an essay that extols diversity and warns of the dangers of modifying the human genome. Nora Groce reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an i...
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£35,50
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Linguistics of American Sign Language An Introduction (5th Edition)
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563685071, Gallaudet University Press, August 2011
584 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
Completely reorganized to reflect the growing intricacy of the study of ASL linguistics, the 5th edition presents 26 units in seven parts. Part One: Introduction presents a revision of Defining Language and an entirely new unit, Defining Linguistics....
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£60,00
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Deaf in DC A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563684814, Gallaudet University Press, January 2011
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his accept...
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£22,50
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Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer
ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...
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£11,50
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Deaf History Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781563683596, Gallaudet University Press, October 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 figures
"The Deaf History Reader" presents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from a noteworthy group of historians, including Reg...
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£19,00
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Deaf in Delhi A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563682841, Gallaudet University Press, March 2006
234 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos
In 1952, after two weeks of typhoid fever and the mumps, 11-year-old Madan Vasishta awoke one night to discover that he could no longer hear. He was horrified because in India, the word for "deaf" in all three main languages, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi...
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£22,50
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To the Lexicon and Beyond Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities
ISBN: HB: 9781563683060, Gallaudet University Press, October 2004
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Volume 10 of the series explores sociolinguistics in various European Deaf communities. Editors Van Herreweghe and Vermeerbergen present a wide array of research inspired by the Sociolinguistics Symposium 14 held at Ghent University, Belgium, in Apri...
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£56,50
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Book of Colors A Baby's First Sign Book
ISBN: PB: 9781563681479, Gallaudet University Press, October 2003
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
From the team that created the "Baby's First Signs" books come two new board books. "A Book of Colors" depicts the charming character with the favorite hat signing all of the primary and secondary colors – red, yellow, blue, orange, green, and purple...
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£6,00
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More Baby's First Signs
ISBN: PB: 9781563681158, Gallaudet University Press, September 2001
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Every parent knows the frustration of trying to satisfy the demands of an infant too young to communicate his or her thoughts. Now, a growing consensus of researchers agree that not only deaf children but also hearing children can benefit from early...
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£6,00
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Baby's First Signs
ISBN: PB: 9781563681141, Gallaudet University Press, September 2001
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Every parent knows the frustration of trying to satisfy the demands of an infant too young to communicate his or her thoughts. Now, a growing consensus of researchers agree that not only deaf children but also hearing children can benefit from early...
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£6,00
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