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Hungarians A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
ISBN: PB: 9781850656821, ISBN: HB: 9781850656739, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
572 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns' but it was not long before the Hungarians became stea...
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£18,99
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Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece
ISBN: PB: 9781850656746, ISBN: HB: 9781850657026, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 m...
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£25,00
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Damned for Their Difference The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
ISBN: PB: 9781563681219, Gallaudet University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Damned for Their Difference" offers a well-founded explanation of how Deaf people became classified disparagingly worldwide as "disabled", through a discursive exploration of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of these attitudes and behav...
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£33,00
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Impact of War on Children
ISBN: PB: 9781850654858, Hurst Publishers, September 2001
241 pp., 22x15.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Graca Machel, UNICEF's special rapporteur, also scrutinises sexual crimes in time of war, the fate of orphans, the disproportionate suffering of children endure in civil wars, and their special vulnerability to such side-effect...
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£12,95
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Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781563681080, Gallaudet University Press, February 2001
246 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; J...
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£40,00
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For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals
ISBN: PB: 9780226065861, ISBN: HB: 9780226065854, University of Chicago Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23x15 cm
"For the Love of It" is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love...
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£17,50
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£18,00
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Deaf Mute Howls
ISBN: PB: 9781563680731, Gallaudet University Press, September 1998
135 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Originally published in 1930, "The Deaf Mute Howls" challenged the prevailing practice of teaching deaf children to speak and read lips while prohibiting the use of sign language. Albert Ballin's sharp observations in this remarkable book detail his...
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£16,50
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Communication Therapy An Integrated Approach to Aural Rehabilitation
ISBN: HB: 9781563680540, Gallaudet University Press, August 1996
394 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
The information presented in this book is excellent. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and practicing professionals.
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£62,00
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Kid-Friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
ISBN: PB: 9781563680311, Gallaudet University Press, December 1995
373 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
For the parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children, this step-by-step guide offers hundreds of ideas and methods that work with children aged three to 12. It provides play activities to help parents enhance communication, solve problems and strengt...
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£27,00
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Sex, Culture and Modernity in Modern China Medical Science and the Construction of Racial Identities in the Early Republican Period
ISBN: HB: 9781850651666, Hurst Publishers, March 1995
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sex' emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature of sex, the determination of sexual differences,...
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