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American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781944838782, Gallaudet University Press, September 2020
462 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This unique reference can help users locate a sign whose meaning they have forgotten, or help them find the meaning of a new sign they have just seen for the first time. It organizes more than 1,900 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes and includes detai...
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£28,00
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Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies An Introduction to Its Theories
ISBN: HB: 9781944838379, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm
"The Academic Foundations of Interpreting Studies" is the first introductory course book that explores the theoretical foundations used in sign language interpreting studies. Authors Roy, Brunson, and Stone examine the disciplines whose theoretical f...
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£56,00
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Arabic - English Dictionary
ISBN: PB: 9781861187864, Bookport, Third Millennium Press, March 2019
503 pp., 17.8x12 cm
This essential dictionary provides a detailed picture of the Arabic language that contains over 20,000 words and phrases. 2-column layout, Modern Written Arabic, and Easy access to the meanings. A reliable, practical and readily accessible book.
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£25,00
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Animal Signs A First Book of Sign Language
ISBN: PB: 9781563680496, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
16 pp., 15.9x15.9 cm
Charming, full-color photographs of basic animals plus illustrations of their corresponding signs offer children ages 1 to 4 a fun way to learn their first signs and vocabulary words. Constructed of sturdy cardboard with a protective finish on each p...
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£6,00
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Adventures of a Deaf-Mute and Other Short Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9781563686832, Gallaudet University Press, February 2017
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 4 figures, 1 illus.
In "Adventures of a Deaf-Mute", Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death a...
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£19,00
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And No Birds Sing
ISBN: PB: 9781563686689, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 photographs
Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with...
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£26,00
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American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary
ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781563684449, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
456 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 1900 sign illus.
Now, the bestselling resource "The American Sign Language Handshape Dictionary" has been completely revised with more than 320 new signs and a new DVD. It organizes more than 1,900 ASL signs by 40 basic handshapes and includes detailed descriptions o...
HB + DVD:
£35,00
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Automaton Theories of Human Sentence Comprehension
ISBN: PB: 9781575867472, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, October 2015
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
By relating grammar to cognitive architecture, John T. Hale shows step-by-step how incremental parsing works in models of perceptual processing and how specific learning rules might lead to frequency-sensitive preferences. Along the way, Hale reconsi...
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£22,00
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Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators Challenges of Interpretation
ISBN: PB: 9781563685682, Gallaudet University Press, August 2015
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
The second volume in the Studies in Interpretation series delves further into the intricacies of sign language interpreting in five distinctive chapters. In the first chapter, Lawrence Forestal investigates the shifting attitudes of Deaf leaders towa...
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£47,50
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Art of Being Deaf A Memoir
ISBN: PB: 9781563685972, Gallaudet University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Concerned about aspects of her romantic relationships, Donna McDonald consulted with a psychologist who asked, "Your hearing loss must have had a big impact on you?" At age 45, with a successful career in social work policy, McDonald took umbrage at...
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£22,50
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