"Set the Stage!" is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theatre. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the ri...

In nineteenth-century Spain, the education of deaf students took shape through various contradictory philosophies and practices. Susan Plann depicts this ambivalence by profiling a select group of teachers and students in her detailed history "The Sp...

This volume collects for the first time various accounts of contact between sign languages throughout the world, presenting an exciting opportunity to further understand the structural and social factors of this linguistic component in Deaf communiti...

The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. Available now in a special reprint for the North America...

Here's a great book for every young adult age 11 up, "Signing Fun: American Sign Language Vocabulary, Phrases, Games, and Activities". Signing is visual, easy to learn, and fun to use. Author Penny Warner offers 441 useful signs on a variety of favor...

For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...

This intermediate level text presents short stories and essays in modern Japanese, alongside exercises and other helpful aids. Sura-Sura is written with the two-fold purpose of increasing proficiency in the language and affording an opportunity to ga...

Out of sight of the heated land Over the breezy sea; Into the reach of the solemn mist Quietly drifted we. Her return will be an event welcomed by poetry aficionados everywhere.

The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a complete description of American Sign Language (ASL) variation. For four decades, linguists have studied how people from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the...

Especially for use with deaf and hard-of-hearing clients, "Signing with Your Clients" shows how to sign the questions and statements most frequently used by clinicians. More than 500 line drawings illustrate the signs for 237 sentences with translat...