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Education

History of Gallaudet University 150 Years of a Deaf American Institution

Armstrong David F.

ISBN: HB: 9781563685958, Gallaudet University Press, June 2014
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 25 illus., 225 photos

On April 8, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States Congress put into effect legislation authorizing the granting of collegiate degrees by the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. At this moment,...

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America

Linguistics

Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America

Mufwene Salikoko S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126203, ISBN: HB: 9780226126173, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 3 line drawings, 27 tables

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene do...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Building Bridges, Crossing Borders One Young Deaf Woman's Education

Darby Getty Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781563686078, Gallaudet University Press, May 2014
168 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 13 photos

Kyler Daniels was born in 1988 with a profound bilateral hearing loss. Her deafness went undetected for a year since newborn screening for hearing loss was not yet available. Kyler benefited, however, from the great support of her family and a string...

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Chinese

Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin: Intermediate Level

Wheatley Julian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141184, Yale University Press, April 2014
416 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 66 colour illus.

Designed to build language ability while stimulating curiosity, "Learning Chinese" teaches intermediate conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. Conversational lessons are separated from lessons on reading and writing characters, allowing inst...

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Education

Other

Being a Language Teacher

Lopez-Burton Norma

ISBN: PB: 9780300186895, Yale University Press, April 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"Being a Language Teacher" provides an innovative, personal approach to second language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging produc...

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Linguistics

Core and Periphery Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. Sag

Hofmeister Philip, Norcliffe Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781575867212, ISBN: HB: 9781575867205, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Core and the Periphery" is a collection of papers inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013), written to commemorate his many contributions to the field. Sag was professor of linguistics at Stanford University from 1979 to 201...

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Sign Language

Signs and Wonders Religious Rhetoric and the Preservation of Sign Language

Morse Tracy Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781563686016, Gallaudet University Press, March 2014
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

Current academic discourse frequently understates the role of religion in the development of the American Deaf community. In her new study, Tracy Ann Morse effects a sharp course correction by delineating the frequent use over time of religious rheto...

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Biography & Memoires

Art of Being Deaf A Memoir

McDonald Donna

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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Greek & Latin

Attica: Intermediate Classical Greek Readings, Review, and Exercises

Claxton Cynthia L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178760, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Effective as either a primary or secondary textbook, "Intermediate Greek" fills a gap in the available materials by simultaneously providing a much-needed grammar review and an introduction to primary texts that the students will be working with in t...

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Dictionaries

Russian

Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms

Lubensky Sophia

ISBN: HB: 9780300162271, Yale University Press, February 2014
1376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the ninet...

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