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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: $10.98 Used - Flexible
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Deaf Like Me (85 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Publisher Comments An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Life is Helen Kellers account of her triumph over deafness and blindness. Popularized by the stage play and movie The Miracle Worker, Kellers story has become a symbol of hope for... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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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: $11.50 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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Essential ASL: The Fun, Fast, and Simple Way to Learn American Sign Language by Martin Sternberg Publisher Comments ABO 1 (a bout'), "prep." (Revolving about.) The left hand is held at chest height, all fingers extended and touching the thumb, and all pointing to the right. The right index finger circles about the left fingers several times. ACCEPT (a k se pt... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Song Without Words (Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Gerald Shea Publisher Comments Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Gerald Sheas witty and candid memoir of how he compensated—through sheer determination and an... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 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 $22.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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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.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 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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Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture by Carol Padden Publisher Comments "Through the use of folklore, apocryphal stories, poetry, jokes, and discussion of split factions and advocacy organizations, Padden and Humphries gracefully explain how deaf culture works, what it means to its members, how they define themselves within... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $20.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Signing Everyday Phrases by Mickey Flodin Publisher Comments Fully illustrated and completely revised and updated with 32 pages of all-new signs for the digital age. The most convenient and concise way for learning commonly used phrases in sign language. Perfect for anyone-both deaf and hearing-from teachers and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $12.95 Your price: $2.25 Used - Hardcover
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Keyboarding Skills for Children with Disabilities by Jacqueline Stokes Synopsis In this easy-to-read book, parents and professionals will discover the important role each plays in helping infants with hearing loss acquire communication skills. Included are details on technology, a balanced discussion of communication options, and... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community by Harlan L Lane Publisher Comments A look at the gulf that separates the deaf minority from the hearing world, this book sheds light on the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness. Critically acclaimed as a breakthrough when... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alpha Teach Yourself American Sign Language in 24 Hours (Alpha Teach Yourself in 24 Hours) by Trudy Suggs Publisher Comments A guide to the fourth most-commonly used language in the U.S. From the Alpha Teach Yourself series comes this self-paced, step-by-step approach to learning ASL. It teaches readers the unique syntax and grammar, the signs themselves, and the just-as... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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