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Deaf Studies
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Deaf Like Me by Thomas S Spradley Publisher Comments Deaf Like Me is the moving account of parents coming to terms with their baby girl's profound deafness. The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children are expressed here with power and simplicity. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley as... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Feel of Silence by Bonnie P. Tucker Publisher Comments Author Bonnie Tucker does not believe in the philosophy that "deaf is dandy". Her book focuses on the real problems and frustrations of being deaf, and how she has learned to cope with her deafness.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $25.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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In This Sign by Joanne Greenberg Publisher Comments The highly acclaimed novel of a family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf. Joanne Greenberg is the author of numerous books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and Rites of Passage, a collection... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I'll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and often surprising story of how she defied all expectations to become one of the most prolific and beloved actresses of our time. Marlee Matlin entered our... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss by David Myers Publisher Comments In this engaging and practical book, Myers, a social psychologist who has himself suffered gradual hearing loss, explores the problems faced by the hard of hearing at home and at work and provides information on the new technology and groundbreaking... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Deafening by Frances Itani Publisher Comments War and deafness are the twin themes of this psychologically rich, impeccably crafted debut novel set during World War I. Itani's wonderfully felt tale is a timely reminder of war's cost, told from an unexpected perspective. Unabridged.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg Publisher Comments By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlbergs memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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I'll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin Publisher Comments From Children of a Lesser God to Dancing with the Stars, Academy Award®-and Golden Globe-winning actress MARLEE MATLIN shares her incredible life story in a moving and often surprising memoir, ILL SCREAM LATERMore than twenty years after becoming... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inside Deaf Culture by Carol A Padden Publisher Comments In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa by Josh Swiller Publisher Comments A young mans quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village, in this poignant account that is, at times, a hilarious comedy of errors as well as a gripping narrative of escalating... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane Publisher Comments The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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If These Ears Could Sing! by Michael James Gannon Publisher Comments If These Ears Could Sing is both an insightful journey and rollicking ride through the life of a profoundly deaf man.Mike Gannon was born without hearing in both ears, a condition that made it difficult to communicate with the outside world but opened... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker Publisher Comments Chapter One Rearview Mirror "En Route to Cambridge, Massachusetts September 1973" Mom and Dad drove me out to Harvard the fall I transferred. I'd never been east of Ohio. Looking back now, I know I was frightened. That day it came out as sullenness. I... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness (Creative Nonfiction) by Lennard J Davis Publisher Comments A candid, affecting, and often funny memoir of growing up as the hearing child of deaf parents.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane Publisher Comments Traces the history of the deaf through the eyes of Laurent Clerc, a deaf Frenchman who was the intellectual leader of the deaf community in France, then in... (read more) Your price: $17.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rebuilt Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World My Journey Back to the Hearing World by Michael Chorost Publisher Comments After Michael Chorost suddenly lost what was left of his hearing, he took the radical step of having a cochlear implant -- a tiny computer -- installed in his head. A technological marvel, the device not only restored to him the world of sound but also... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen Publisher Comments This portrait of New York's Lafayette School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seeing Voices a Journey Into the World by Oliver W Sacks Publisher Comments Oliver Sacks has been described (by The New York Times Book Review) as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings, have been widely praised by critics from W. H. Auden to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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What's That Pig Outdoors?: A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor Synopsis Henry Kisor, a veteran journalist, twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, lost his hearing at age three. He recounts the story of his life as a deaf person in a hearing culture in this engaging memoir, which offers a fascinating perspective on both... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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