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Download or read book Talking Hands written by Margalit Fox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents life in a remote Bedouin village in Israel whose residents communicate through a unique method of sign language used by both hearing and non-hearing citizens, in an account that offers insight into the relationship between language and the human mind. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes by : Gabriel Grayson
Download or read book Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes written by Gabriel Grayson and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grayson makes sign language accessible, easy, and fun with this comprehensive primer to the techniques, words, and phrases of signing. 800 illustrative photos.
Download or read book Chirologia written by John Bulwer and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1644 Edition.
Book Synopsis A Show of Hands by : Mary Beth Sullivan
Download or read book A Show of Hands written by Mary Beth Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the sign language used by many deaf and hearing-impaired people.
Download or read book The Hand written by Frank R. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-09-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." --The Boston Globe "Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our species." --The New York Times Book Review The human hand is a miracle of biomechanics, one of the most remarkable adaptations in the history of evolution. The hands of a concert pianist can elicit glorious sound and stir emotion; those of a surgeon can perform the most delicate operations; those of a rock climber allow him to scale a vertical mountain wall. Neurologist Frank R. Wilson makes the striking claim that it is because of the unique structure of the hand and its evolution in cooperation with the brain that Homo sapiens became the most intelligent, preeminent animal on the earth. In this fascinating book, Wilson moves from a discussion of the hand's evolution--and how its intimate communication with the brain affects such areas as neurology, psychology, and linguistics--to provocative new ideas about human creativity and how best to nurture it. Like Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould, Wilson handles a daunting range of scientific knowledge with a surprising deftness and a profound curiosity about human possibility. Provocative, illuminating, and delightful to read, The Hand encourages us to think in new ways about one of our most taken-for-granted assets. "A mark of the book's excellence [is that] it makes the reader aware of the wonder in trivial, everyday acts, and reveals the complexity behind the simplest manipulation." --The Washington Post
Book Synopsis Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery by : Gilbert Austin
Download or read book Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery written by Gilbert Austin and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Show of Hands by : David F. Armstrong
Download or read book Show of Hands written by David F. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts a wide net in history and geography to explain how sign languages have enriched human culture in general and how their study has expanded knowledge of the human condition, from early human anatomy to the ubiquitous benefits of "Deaf Gain."
Book Synopsis the language of the hands by : Roby Novello
Download or read book the language of the hands written by Roby Novello and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo libro è il primo di una serie di cinque, che in chiave fotografica, danno una testimonianza personale, su questi straordinari mezzi che l'essere umano possiede. I cinque sensi, sono i grandi strumenti che Dio e l'Universo, ci hanno dato, per assaporare la meraviglie del mondo, con le emozioni e i sentimenti propri dell'animo umano. Questi straordinari poteri, hanno dato ai grandi uomini della nostra storia, la possibilità di costruire e progettare, grandiose imprese culturali e artistiche per l'intera umanità.
Download or read book Hands for Language written by Uma Menon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands for Language is a groundbreaking poetry collection that expands the dialogue around literary representation. At its core, the collection is a bildungsroman in verse that encompasses postcolonial and diasporic themes. Written by the author at the age of fifteen, Hands for Language is intended to take readers on a journey through the eyes of a young girl of color living in America. She explores themes of transnationalism, migration, language, family, and culture. Organized into four sections, Hands for Language mirrors my path to self-discovery and understanding. The collection is a commentary on the interaction between historical and modern conceptions of ethnicity, gender, and cultural identity. "As a child, I never had the opportunity to read a book or poem about a person who was truly like me, trapped by the duality of culture. It wasn't until adolescence that I discovered the underappreciated realm of diasporic writing. This poetry collection is a retelling of my childhood as a daughter of immigrants, and I hope to help other young people of color to embrace their cultural identity through this work."
Author :R. Breckinridge Church Publisher :John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN 13 :9027265771 Total Pages :443 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (272 download)
Book Synopsis Why Gesture? by : R. Breckinridge Church
Download or read book Why Gesture? written by R. Breckinridge Church and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first to systematically explore the functions of gesture in speaking, thinking, and communicating – focusing on the variety of purposes served for the gesturer as well as for the viewer of gestures. Chapters in this edited volume present a range of diverse perspectives (including neural, cognitive, social, developmental and educational), consider gestural behavior in multiple contexts (conversation, narration, persuasion, intervention, and instruction), and utilize an array of methodological approaches (including both naturalistic and experimental). The book demonstrates that gesture influences how humans develop ideas, express and share those ideas to create community, and engineer innovative solutions to problems.
Book Synopsis What the Hands Reveal about the Brain by : Howard Poizner
Download or read book What the Hands Reveal about the Brain written by Howard Poizner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages.
Book Synopsis Hands of My Father by : Myron Uhlberg
Download or read book Hands of My Father written by Myron Uhlberg and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.
Book Synopsis The Book of a Hundred Hands by : Cole Swensen
Download or read book The Book of a Hundred Hands written by Cole Swensen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hand is second only to language in defining the human being, and its constant presence makes it a ready reminder of our humanity, with all its privileges and obligations. In this dazzling collection, Cole Swensen explores the hand from any angle approachable by language and art. Her hope: to exhaust the hand as subject matter; her joy: the fact that she couldn’t. These short poems reveal the hand from a hundred different perspectives. Incorporating sign language, drawing manuals, paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, shadow puppets, imagined histories, positions (the “hand as a boatless sail”), and professions (“the hand as window in which the panes infinitesimal”), Cole Swensen’s fine hand is “that which augments” our understanding and appreciation of “this freak wing,” this “wheel that comforts none” yet remains “a fruit the size and shape of the heart.”
Download or read book Hands & Hearts written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and daughter spend a sunny day at the beach together where they swim, dance, build sandcastles, and, most importantly, communicate. But their communication is not spoken; rather, it is created by loving hands that use American Sign Language. Readers will learn how to sign 15 words using American Sign Language with the help of sidebars that are both instructive and playful. And the beautifully illustrated beach scenes will appeal both to the deaf community and to hearing parents and children, who will enjoy this gentle introduction to some basic words in ASL. Hands & Hearts is a picture book unlike any other, revealing the special bond between mother and child. Praise for Hands & Hearts "A memorable excursion." --Kirkus Reviews "The book is recommended for libraries with an interest in ASL, and those in need of beach-themed picture books for the mommy-and-me crowd." --School Library Journal
Book Synopsis Palmistry: the Language of the Hands by : Cassandria Hanna
Download or read book Palmistry: the Language of the Hands written by Cassandria Hanna and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandria Hanna is an intuitive, medium, holy fire Reiki master, palmist, author, and musician. She holds an MM degree in performing arts and a PhD in philosophy, specializing in metaphysical parapsychology. Dr. Hanna teaches palmistry in Atlanta, Georgia.
Book Synopsis Communicating in Sign by : Diane P. Chambers
Download or read book Communicating in Sign written by Diane P. Chambers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-07-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places ASL within the context of Deaf culture.
Book Synopsis Hearing Gesture by : Susan Goldin-Meadow
Download or read book Hearing Gesture written by Susan Goldin-Meadow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers—adults and children alike—by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking.
