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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...
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Deaf Like Me (78 Edition)
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...
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Inside Deaf Culture (05 Edition)
by Carol A. Padden Publisher Comments In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in Americareveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culturerelates Deaf people's search for a voice...
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A Journey Into the Deaf-World
by Harlan Lane Publisher Comments A compelling story of this much misunderstood minority as it struggles for self-determination....
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Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking
by H-dirksen L. Bauman Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume introduces readers to the key concepts and debates in deaf studies, offering perspectives on the relevance and richness of deaf ways of being in the world. In Open Your Eyes, leading and emerging scholars, the majority of whom...
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Deaf Sport: The Impact of Sports Within the Deaf Community
by David Stewart Publisher Comments The Impact of Sports within the Deaf...
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Black Deaf Students: A Model for Educational Success
by Carolyn Williamson Publisher Comments Williamson interviews nine successful deaf and hard of hearing African Americans to create a formula for success for other black, deaf students....
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Crossing the Divide: Representations of Deafness in Biography
by Rachel Mildr Hartig Publisher Comments This book offers an unusual perspective of the process by which three deaf French biographers from the 19th-20th centuries attempted to cross the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds....
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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
by Nora Ellen Groce Publisher Comments From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the...
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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...
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The Deaf History Reader (Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies)
by John Vick Van Cleve Publisher Comments The Deaf History Reader presents nine masterful chapters that bring together a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America. This collection features the finest scholarship from a noteworthy group of historians, including Reginald...
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Inside Deaf Culture: ,
by Carol Padden Publisher Comments In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in Americareveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culturerelates Deaf people's search for a voice...
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I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses--A Philosophical History
by Jonathan Ree Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of deafness, by a philosopher who combines the scientific erudition of Oliver Sacks with the historical flair of Simon Schama. There is nothing more personal than the human voice, traditionally considered the expression of the...
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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...
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Clerc: The Story of His Early Years
by Cathryn Carroll Publisher Comments A fictionalized autobiography in which the voice of Laurent Clerc describes his boyhood in France as a deaf student and his development of his own progressive methods to teach the deaf....
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Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
by Carol Padden Publisher Comments those who work with deaf children and Deaf people....
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Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
by Christopher Krentz Publisher Comments Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this...
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Deaf in Delhi (06 Edition)
by Vasishta Publisher Comments Deaf from illness at age 11 in 1952, Vasishta tells of his rise from herding cattle in a small village to becoming a photographer and teacher in Delhi, India, and later a student at Gallaudet in America....
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A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America
by John Vick Van Cleve Publisher Comments Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the...
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I See a Voice: Deafness, Language, and the Senses (American)
by Jonathan Ree Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of deafness, by a philosopher who combines the scientific erudition of Oliver Sacks with the historical flair of Simon Schama. There is nothing more personal than the human voice, traditionally considered the expression of the...
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