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once upon a twin
ISBN: PB: 9781944838768, Gallaudet University Press, March 2021
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm
When the author was growing up deaf in a hearing family of nine children, his mother shared conflicting stories about having had a miscarriage after – or around – the time he was conceived. As an elegy to his lost twin, this book asks: If he had a tw...
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£13,00
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On the Beat of Truth A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents
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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Outcasts and Angels The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781563685392, Gallaudet University Press, September 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora W...
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£26,50
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Original Signs Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563681332, Gallaudet University Press, July 2002
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Clearly written in a voice that is humane as well as scholarly, this book belongs in public as well as academic libraries.
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Orchid of the Bayou A Deaf Woman Faces Blindess
ISBN: PB: 9781563681042, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Mama knew I was 'not right'" Kitty Fischer says of her early childhood in Louisiana. Even though her mother never said it, Kitty knew she meant "deaf and dumb". Her communication difficulties were compounded by the bias her family endured for being...
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£22,50
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Other Side of Silence Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America
ISBN: PB: 9780930323646, Gallaudet University Press, March 1990
301 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arden Neisser's classic on American Sign Language (ASL) is again available, with a new prologue. "The Other Side of Silence" chronicles the culture and issues of the Deaf community through telling interviews and research from across the country. In w...
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£17,50
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