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Fiction

Islay A Novel

Bullard Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9781563685637, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, map

Now, a new edition of the classic novel Islay promises to entertain a contemporary audience with its Deaf American dream first conceived by Douglas Bullard in 1986. Islay is the name of an imaginary island state coveted by Lyson Sulla, a Deaf man who...

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Fiction

Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930

Nelson Jennifer L., Harmon Kristen C.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685651, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveyed their impressions in autobiographies, travel narratives, romances, non-fiction short stories, editori...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20

Frellesuig Bjarke, Sells Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781575866383, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
550 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both language...

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Linguistics

Computational Introduction to Linguistics Describing Language in Plain Prolog

Ojeda Almerindo E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866598, ISBN: HB: 9781575866574, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm

In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing developing computer programs that will assign particular sounds to particular meanings and, conversely, particular meanings to particular sounds. Since these as...

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Other

Judaism

Brandeis Modern Hebrew: Intermediate to Advanced Pilot Edition

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther

ISBN: PB: 9781611684476, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2013
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew program at Brandeis University, the pilot edition of Brandeis Modern Hebrew, Intermediate to Advanced serves as a sequel to the well-known volume for beginners. It contains the functional and contextual eleme...

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Linguistics

Spoken Sibe Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech

Zikmundova Veronika

ISBN: PB: 9788024621036, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2013
212 pp., 24x17 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At present, the Sibe language is the only still-active oral variety of Manchu, the language of the indigenous tribe of Manchuria. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most wi...

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Biography & Memoires

On the Beat of Truth A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents

Childress Brown Maxine

ISBN: PB: 9781563685521, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 25 photos

As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South – her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mothe...

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Education

Black Deaf Students A Model for Educational Success

Williamson Carolyn E.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685941, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 1 figure

Research has identified resilience as a key element to success in school. Carolyn Williamson searches out ways to develop, reinforce, and alter the factors that encourage resilience in African American deaf and hard of hearing students. To find the i...

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Literary Criticism

Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community

Sayers Edna Edith, Moore Diana

ISBN: PB: 9781563685576, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...

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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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