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Fighting in the Shadows The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9781563686801, Gallaudet University Press, May 2017
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 photographs
This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang's groundbreaking study of deaf people's experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, "Fighting in the Shadows" reveals the stories of both ordinary and extraordinary deaf soldie...
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£30,00
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From Topic Boundaries to Omission New Research on Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9781563686405, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables, 8 figures, 36 photos
This new collection examines several facets of signed language interpreting. Claudia Angelelli's study confirms that conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation can no longer be seen as a two-party conversation with an "invisible" interpreter,...
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£49,00
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Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language
ISBN: HB: 9781563685736, Gallaudet University Press, December 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 figures, 25 sign illus.
The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but also in the ways that those words are conveyed. In her new study, Miako N. P. Rankin highlights the crucial interrelatedness of form and meaning at all levels in order to con...
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£60,00
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Four Days in Michigan A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563685347, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young, deaf Jewish woman living in a small town in Michigan in 1942, Sandra Horowitz felt deeply frustrated by her limited prospects. Even though she had just graduated from junior college, she knew that she had two strikes against her in fulfil...
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£12,00
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Forging Deaf Education in Nineteenth-Century France Biographical Sketches of Bebian, Sicard, Massieu, and Clerc
ISBN: HB: 9781563684159, Gallaudet University Press, October 2009
148 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 photos
In 1811, deaf student Ferdinand Berthier commenced his education at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris under its director Abbe Sicard and his teachers Auguste Bebian, Jean Massieu, and Laurent Clerc. Their tutelage eventually led Berthier t...
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£48,00
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From Integration to Inclusion A History of Special Education in the 20th Century
ISBN: HB: 9781563683657, Gallaudet University Press, September 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 3 tables
Since Margret A. Winzer wrote her lamark work "The History of Special Education", much has transpired in this field, which she again has captured in a remarkable display of scholarship. Winzer's new study From Integration to Inclusion: A History of...
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£60,00
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Fair Chance in the Race of Life The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History
ISBN: PB: 9781563683954, Gallaudet University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 17 photos
Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historia...
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£26,50
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Frequency of Occurrence and Ease of Articulation of Sign Language Handshapes The Taiwanese Example
ISBN: HB: 9781563682889, Gallaudet University Press, July 2006
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the growing body of research on sign language linguistics, one area of inquiry considers an important component of all sign languages – handshapes – and whether the use of specific kinds increase in direct relation to the ease of their formation....
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£60,00
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Far from Home Memories of World War II and Afterward
ISBN: PB: 9781563683190, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
"She's got no more business there than a pig has with a Bibl". That's what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blin...
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£24,00
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From Pity to Pride Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
ISBN: HB: 9781563682704, Gallaudet University Press, June 2004
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The antebellum South's economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. "From Pity to Pride" examines th...
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£46,00
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