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It's a Small World International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
ISBN: HB: 9781563686528, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table, 11 figures
"It's a Small World" explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME ("I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same") and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national...
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£52,50
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Mental Health Services for Deaf People Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
ISBN: HB: 9781563686542, Gallaudet University Press, December 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 tables, 2 figures
The World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness first met at Gallaudet University in October 1998, and it has convened five more times in the succeeding years. This volume collects the very best research presented at the Fifth World Congress, which...
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£56,00
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Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Research Selected Papers from the First International Symposium
ISBN: HB: 9781563686481, Gallaudet University Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 tables, 3 figures, 7 photos
This volume brings together the best research presented at the first International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Editors Brenda Nicodemus and Keith Cagle have gathered an international group of contributors who a...
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Women and Deafness Double Visions
ISBN: PB: 9781563686177, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 19 figures, sign illus.
This new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women's Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history,...
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£28,00
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Deaf Heart A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563686030, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 photos
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, "The Deaf Heart" chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of...
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£15,00
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Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators Challenges of Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9781563685682, Gallaudet University Press, August 2015
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
The second volume in the Studies in Interpretation series delves further into the intricacies of sign language interpreting in five distinctive chapters. In the first chapter, Lawrence Forestal investigates the shifting attitudes of Deaf leaders towa...
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£47,50
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Learning American Sign Language in High School Motivation, Strategies, and Achievement
ISBN: HB: 9781563686429, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 tables
Reflecting the exponential growth of college courses offering American Sign Language (ASL) as a foreign language, high schools have followed suit with significant increases in ASL classes during the past two decades. Despite this trend, high school A...
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£41,50
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Legal Rights The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (6th Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781563686443, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of "Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People" meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit d...
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£26,50
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Citizenship, Politics, Difference Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed Language Communities
ISBN: HB: 9781563686344, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 15 figures
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most linguistically, culturally, and geographically diverse regions of the world, home to more than 2,000 languages. As in the rest of the world, Deaf people live throughout the widely varying sub-Saharan communities,...
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£60,00
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Historical and Etymological Dictionary of American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563686214, Gallaudet University Press, June 2015
344 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1150 sign illus.
The story of how American Sign Language (ASL) came to be is almost mythic. In the early 19th century, a hearing American reverend, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, met a Deaf French educator, Laurent Clerc, who agreed to come to the United States and help e...
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£56,50
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