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Hearing Happiness Deafness Cures in History
ISBN: HB: 9780226690612, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society and doctors, she struggled to "pass" as hearing for most of her...
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£22,00
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Epistemic Modality in Standard Spoken Tibetan Epistemic Verbal Endings and Copulas
ISBN: PB: 9788024635880, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Sino-Tibetan language family is the second largest in the world, and standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken language in the Tibetic group. A comprehensive introduction to epistemic...
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£22,50
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Predicative Constructions From the Fregean to a Montagovian Treatment
ISBN: PB: 9781575868370, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There are multitudes of ways in which predicative constructions can be analyzed. In this book, Frank Van Eynde differentiates between the Fregean and Montagovian treatments of these constructions in order to better understand predicative construction...
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£24,00
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Around the Globe Rethinking Oral History with Its Protagonists
ISBN: PB: 9788024622262, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this unusual and important new work, Miroslav Vanek interviews twelve experts on oral history to discuss the medium's current status within the social sciences in light of recent techno...
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£15,00
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Genetics, Disability, and Deafness
ISBN: PB: 9781563685767, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand begins this wide-ranging volume with an essay that extols diversity and warns of the dangers of modifying the human genome. Nora Groce reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an i...
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£35,50
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Linguistics of American Sign Language An Introduction (5th Edition)
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563685071, Gallaudet University Press, August 2011
584 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
Completely reorganized to reflect the growing intricacy of the study of ASL linguistics, the 5th edition presents 26 units in seven parts. Part One: Introduction presents a revision of Defining Language and an entirely new unit, Defining Linguistics....
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£60,00
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Deaf in DC A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563684814, Gallaudet University Press, January 2011
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos
In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his accept...
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£22,50
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Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer
ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...
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£11,50
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Deaf History Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781563683596, Gallaudet University Press, October 2007
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables, 3 figures
"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 Reg...
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£19,00
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Deaf in Delhi A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563682841, Gallaudet University Press, March 2006
234 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos
In 1952, after two weeks of typhoid fever and the mumps, 11-year-old Madan Vasishta awoke one night to discover that he could no longer hear. He was horrified because in India, the word for "deaf" in all three main languages, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi...
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£22,50
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