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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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Learn to Sign the Fun Way: Let Your Fingers Do the Talking with Games, Puzzles, and Activities in American Sign Language by Penny Warner Publisher Comments The perfect guide to signing for everyone!<BR>Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly become your kids' new... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Joy of Signing 2ND Edition by Lottie L Riekehof Publisher Comments Teaches sign language in senteces rather than individual words. Includes graphic drawings, index, and sadditional learning tools.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sesame Street Sign Language ABC with Linda Bove by Linda Bove Publisher Comments Illus. in full color with full-color photos. The basics of American Sign Language. "Designed for the very young, this would be an asset if shelved with either regular alphabet books or with sign language books. Each letter appears in both capital and... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Pamphlet
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Cockeyed (06 Edition) by Ryan Knighton Publisher Comments On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Sign Language Dictionary-Flexi by Martin L Sternberg Publisher Comments Completely updated and revised, this easy to use abridged version of the American... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Flexible
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American Sign Language: A Teacher's Resorce Text on Grammar and Culture (Green Book Series) by Charlot Baker Shenk Publisher Comments Best known as the Green Books, the American Sign Language books provide teachers and students of American Sign Language (ASL) with the complete means for learning about the culture, community, and the native language of Deaf people. A group of 15 ASL... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Complete Idiots Guide To Learning Sign Languag by Susan Shelly Publisher Comments You're no idiot, of course. You studied a foreign language, you can give good hand signals to a driver parallel parking, and you know when your boss is in a bad mood based on body language. But when it comes to using sign language, you feel like you're... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind by Margalit Fox Publisher Comments Imagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness -- is at the heart of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind. There, an... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Signed English Starter by Harry Bornstein Publisher Comments The Signed English Starter is the first book to use when learning Signed English. It contains 940 basic signs presented topically, a method especially suited to beginning signers. The organization of the volume makes it easier for students to learn. It... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Spiral/comb
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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 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: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller by Kim E Nielsen Publisher Comments After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Kellers teacher and mythologized as a... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Invisible: A Memoir by Hugues De Montalembert Publisher Comments The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen“You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chris Gets Ear Tubes by Betty Pace Publisher Comments Describes the experience of a young boy whose chronic ear infections are affecting his hearing, until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Helen Keller (Women Who Dare) by Aimee Hess Publisher Comments Illuminates the fascinating and inspiring life of Keller, with 42 exceptional color and black-white-images.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson Publisher Comments Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Deaf Women's Lives #3: Deaf Women's Lives: Three Self-Portraits by Bainy Cyrus Publisher Comments Three deaf women with widely varying stories share their experiences in this unique collection, revealing the vast differences in the circumstances of their lives, but also striking similarities. In Bainy Cyruss All Eyes, she vividly describes her life... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $12.50 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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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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Show of Hands: A Natural History of Sign Language by David F Armstrong Publisher Comments Most scholarly speculation on the origin of human language has centered around speech. However, the growing understanding of sign languages on human development has transformed the debate on language evolution. David F. Armstrong’s new book Show... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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