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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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Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language A Study of Language Use and Attitudes
ISBN: HB: 9781944838065, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 figures
Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million membe...
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£45,00
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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...
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£35,00
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Poetry Reader for Russian Learners
ISBN: PB: 9780300184631, Yale University Press, July 2015
248 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, "Poetry Reader for Russian Learners" helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are c...
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£25,00
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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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Written on Bamboo and Silk The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226814162, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 26 halftones, 4 line illus.
Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the developme...
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£24,00
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Meaning, Form, and Body
ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm
"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...
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£28,00
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£52,50
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Signing in Puerto Rican A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family
ISBN: PB: 9781563684173, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 photos
The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In "Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family", he opens a window into th...
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£26,50
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Day by Day The Chronicles of a Hard of Hearing Reporter
ISBN: PB: 9781563683701, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
204 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Elizabeth Thompson's hearing loss was detected when she was in elementary school, and her hearing continued to deteriorate until she became completely deaf. Like many other hard of hearing and late-deafened individuals, her hearing loss complicated t...
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£22,50
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Moon on the Meadow Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781563683640, Gallaudet University Press, February 2008
144 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
As a child of deaf adults (CODA), Pia Taavila first learned to communicate when her deaf father fingerspelled the names of toys in her crib and her mother showed her the signs for objects in picture books. From this primary visual orientation, in com...
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£19,00
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