Deaf in America

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674283171
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Deaf in America by : Carol A. Padden

Download or read book Deaf in America written by Carol A. Padden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language—American Sign Language (ASL—and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people’s cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people’s views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.

Simplexity

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738147453
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Simplexity by : Alain Berthoz

Download or read book Simplexity written by Alain Berthoz and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simplexity, as I understand it, is the range of solutions living organisms have found, despite the complexity of natural processes, to enable the brain to prepare an action and plan for the consequences of it. These solutions are simplifying principles that enable the processing of information or situations, by taking into account past experience and anticipating the future. They are neither caricatures, shortcuts, or summaries. They are new ways of asking questions, sometimes at the cost of occasional detours, in order to achieve faster, more elegant, more effective actions.” A. B. As Alain Berthoz demonstrates in this profoundly original book, simplicity is never easy; it requires suppressing, selecting, connecting, thinking, in order to then act in the best way possible. And what if we, in turn, are inspired by the living world to process the complexity that surrounds us? Alain Berthoz is professor at the Collège de France where he is co-director of the Laboratoire de physiologie de la perception et de l’action. [Laboratory for the physiology of perception and action]. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and is the author of Le Sens du mouvement [The Brain's Sense of Movement] and La Décision [Emotion and Reason].

The Politics of Deafness

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Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781563680649
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Deafness by : Owen Wrigley

Download or read book The Politics of Deafness written by Owen Wrigley and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability to understand and interpret spoken communication.

Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Book Synopsis Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People by : Edward L. Scouten

Download or read book Turning Points in the Education of Deaf People written by Edward L. Scouten and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peasant and French

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467704
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis Peasant and French by : James R. Lehning

Download or read book Peasant and French written by James R. Lehning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.

Sign and Culture

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Publisher : Linstok Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
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Book Synopsis Sign and Culture by : William C. Stokoe

Download or read book Sign and Culture written by William C. Stokoe and published by Linstok Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of papers that have appeared in the journal "Sign Language Studies" between 1972 and 1979. The aim is to provide the reader with some knowledge of the world as signers see it. The book is for academic decision-makers, teachers and parents of deaf students, as well as the intellectually curious. Following an introductory essay, the chapters are arranged in four sections: (1) The first section addresses the broad question "What is Sign Language?" with articles about the language merging situation involving manually encoded English and American Sign Language, as well as other aspects of sign language, including humor and foreign sign languages. (2) The second section on "Learning and Using Sign Language" gets deeply into a psycholinguistic vein, and presents findings on sign language acquisition and learning. (3) The third section, "(Sign) Language and Culture," relates sign language use and particular attitudes and policies to the deaf community. (4) The fourth chapter reinforces the idea that language is not all biological nor all socio-cultural, and applies this idea to sign language acquisition. (Author/PJM)

The Brain's Sense of Movement

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674009806
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Brain's Sense of Movement by : Alain Berthoz

Download or read book The Brain's Sense of Movement written by Alain Berthoz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretation of perception and action allows Alain Berthoz to focus on psychological phenomena: proprioception and kinaesthesis; the mechanisms that maintain balance and co-ordination actions; and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.

On Becoming a Rock Musician

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544405
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis On Becoming a Rock Musician by : H. Stith Bennett

Download or read book On Becoming a Rock Musician written by H. Stith Bennett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a rock musician was fundamentally different than playing other kinds of music. It was a learned rather than a taught skill. In On Becoming a Rock Musician, sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes someone a rock musician and what persuades others to take him seriously in this role. The book explores how bands form; the backstage and onstage reality of playing in a band; how bands promote themselves and interact with audiences and music professionals like DJs; and the role of performance.

Emotion and Reason

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198566267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (662 download)

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Book Synopsis Emotion and Reason by : A. Berthoz

Download or read book Emotion and Reason written by A. Berthoz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Play It Like It Is). Matching folio to the album DMB created in tribute to LeRoi Moore, their saxophonist who died in a 2008 accident. The All Music Guide calls it DMB's "richest, and quite possibly best" album to date. 12 songs: Alligator Pie * Baby Blue * Dive In * Funny the Way It Is * Lying in the Hands of God * Seven * Shake Me like a Monkey * Spaceman * Squirm * Time Bomb * Why I Am * You & Me.

Music in Geriatric Care

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Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Music in Geriatric Care by : Ruth Bright

Download or read book Music in Geriatric Care written by Ruth Bright and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1972 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sing a Song of Social Significance

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Publisher : Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Sing a Song of Social Significance by : R. Serge Denisoff

Download or read book Sing a Song of Social Significance written by R. Serge Denisoff and published by Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: