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Doyle Charles Clay, Mieder Wolfgang, Shapiro Fred R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136029, Yale University Press, June 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"There are no second acts". "It takes a village to raise a child". "Life is just a bowl of cherries". We may think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusivel...

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Education

History of Special Education From Isolation to Integration

Winzer Margret A.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685514, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
464 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, charts, tables

This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandate...

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Law

Interpreting in Legal Settings

Russell Debra, Hale Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9781563685507, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 7 figures

The work of interpreters in legal settings, whether they are spoken or signed language interpreters, is filled with enormous complexity and challenges. This engrossing volume presents six, data-based studies from both signed and spoken language inte...

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Biography & Memoires

Deaf Heritage A Narrative History of Deaf America

Gannon Jack R.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685149, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
520 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 photos, figures

Now, Jack R. Gannon's original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In "Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America", Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America...

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Linguistics

Reference and Reflexivity Second Edition

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781575865249, ISBN: HB: 9781575865232, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
275 pp., 22x14 cm

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new second edition, Perry has added a new preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics an...

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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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Education

Illusions of Equality Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950

Buchanan Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685491, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The working lives of Deaf Americans from the mid-1850s to the post-World War II era depended upon strategies created by Deaf community leaders to win and keep jobs through periods of low national employment as well as high. Deaf people typically soug...

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Fiction

Deaf American Prose, 1980-2010

Harmon Kristen C., Nelson Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9781563685231, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

In Deaf life, the personal narrative holds sway because most Deaf individuals recall their formative years as solitary struggles to understand and to be understood. Few deaf people in the past related their stories in written form, relying instead on...

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Literary Criticism

Deaf Epistemologies Multiple Perspectives on the Acquisition of Knowledge

Paul Peter V., Moores Donald F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685255, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1 table

Epistemology is the study of how "knowledge" is formed. Standard epistemology isolates the "known" from the "knowers", thereby defining "knowledge" as objectively constant. Multiple epistemologies suggest that individuals learn in different ways shap...

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Fiction

Four Days in Michigan A Novel

Zazove Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781563685347, Gallaudet University Press, April 2012
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As a young, deaf Jewish woman living in a small town in Michigan in 1942, Sandra Horowitz felt deeply frustrated by her limited prospects. Even though she had just graduated from junior college, she knew that she had two strikes against her in fulfil...

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