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Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning A Comparative Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9781563686702, Gallaudet University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 4 illus., 3 figures
Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of l...
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£64,00
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Deaf Heart A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563686030, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 photos
Told through a series of quirky, irreverent short stories and letters home during the early 1980s, "The Deaf Heart" chronicles a year in the life of Dempsey "Max" McCall, a Deaf biomedical photography resident at a teaching hospital on the island of...
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£15,00
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Mickey's Harvest A Novel of a Deaf Boy's Checkered Life
ISBN: PB: 9781563686368, Gallaudet University Press, February 2015
232 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Howard L. Terry wrote a novel between 1917 and 1922, which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey's "Harvest: A Novel of a Deaf...
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£22,50
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Islay A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781563685637, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, map
Now, a new edition of the classic novel Islay promises to entertain a contemporary audience with its Deaf American dream first conceived by Douglas Bullard in 1986. Islay is the name of an imaginary island state coveted by Lyson Sulla, a Deaf man who...
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£30,00
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Deaf American Prose, 1830-1930
ISBN: PB: 9781563685651, Gallaudet University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This new anthology showcases the work of Deaf writers during a critical formative period in their history. From 1830 to 1930, these writers conveyed their impressions in autobiographies, travel narratives, romances, non-fiction short stories, editori...
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£45,00
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Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community
ISBN: PB: 9781563685576, Gallaudet University Press, May 2013
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father's employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at he...
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£34,00
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Deaf American Literature From Carnival to the Canon
ISBN: PB: 9781563685774, Gallaudet University Press, February 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this classic bestseller, first published in 2000, Cynthia Peters uses the archetypal concept of the carnival as a framework to interpret the evolution of ASL literature. The Deaf literary canon, much like the carnival itself, represents the "count...
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£47,50
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Outcasts and Angels The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781563685392, Gallaudet University Press, September 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora W...
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£26,50
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Deaf American Prose, 1980-2010
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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£45,00
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Deaf Epistemologies Multiple Perspectives on the Acquisition of Knowledge
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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£64,00
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