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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness in Martha’s Vineyard
Beautiful and fascinating...I was so moved by Groce's book that the moment I finished it I jumped in the car, with only a toothbrush, a tape recorder, and a camera - I had to see this enchanted island for myself. -- Oliver Sacks "New York Review of Books"
£15.50
My Island: The True Story of a Silent Challenge
This is a profoundly moving book. It tells the story of Hamish Rosie, from the Orkney Islands, left deaf by meningitis. At the age of 4 he was sent to a special school in Aberdeen so that he could ‘learn to speak’.
£15.99
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness
Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents.
£13.50
The Talking Deaf Man
Amman (1669-1724) was a Swiss physician and teacher of 'non-verbal deaf persons'. After graduating at Basel in 1687 he began to practise at Amsterdam, where he gained a great reputation. He was one of the earliest writers on the instruction of the non-verbal deaf...
£6.99
I'll Scream Later
Audiences everywhere fell in love with Marlee Matlin as the deaf student-turned-custodian in Children of a Lesser God, a role for which she became the youngest woman ever to win a Best Actress Oscar. Since then, she has become an inspirational force of nature - as a mother, activist and role model - in addition to playing memorable roles on popular television shows, such as Seinfeld, The West Wing and The L Word, and competing on Dancing with the Stars.
£8.00
Invest Like a Shark
You'll learn the same disciplined investment techniques that helped DePorre build a tiny nest egg into a huge fortune and transformed his life. If you read TheStreet.com, RealMoney.com, or SharkInvesting.com, you already know DePorre and his inspiring personal story of how he lost his hearing, career, and marriage!turned to online investing out of desperation!and succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
£20.00
Kicking Up Dirt : A True Story of Determination, Deafness, and Daring
At nineteen, Ashley Fiolek is already the top female competitor in a tough men's sport: motocross, a form of off-road motorcycle racing that is one of the most competitive and dangerous extreme sports in the world. Since going pro in late 2007, Fiolek has taken gold at the X Games, won the American Women's Motocross Championship twice, and become the first woman in American motocross history to be signed to a factory team—the highest echelon of industry backing.
£14.99
Living With A Hearing Loss
Kenneth Edwards started to lose his hearing many years ago. At first he found it hard to accept the drastic change in his life that followed. He bought a hearing aid, adapted his work and household routines and slowly came to terms with his loss.
£9.99
Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
This is a personal account of Lou Ann Walker who was born to deaf parents and the hurdles that daily life presented.
£8.99
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf.
£10.99
Midwife on Call
Agnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years.After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternity ward.
£7.00
My Best Cellar : An Autobiography Up to the Age of Eleven...and Other Stuff
This book is from the inventor of TV's 'Vision On'.This is a stunning debut book from the multi-talented Wilf' Lunn, best remembered as the off-the-wall inventor in TV shows like 'Vision-on' and 'Jigsaw'. As a writer Wilf' has that laugh-out-loud observational humour that is reminiscent of Billy Connolly, Peter Kay and Victoria Wood.Wilf' writes with deadpan comic wit and insight about an unusual family and upbringing, managing to pack a huge cast of painfully funny characters into one book.
£8.00
Silence Is Golden: 'A Deaf Child Is A Normal Child Who Cannot Hear"
To the readers who have read my first book Life and Deaf published in April 2004. this new story will answer their desire to know what happened to our daughter Rosemary who became deaf at the age of two years due to an overdose of streptomycin, and her progress thereafter despite eminent specialists suggesting her only vocabulary would be "singing" and her speech would be very limited.
£8.00
The Education of Laura Bridgman : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
In the mid-19th century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the most famous women in the world. Philosophers, theologians, and educators hailed her as a miracle, and a vast public followed the intimate details of her life with rapt attention. This girl, all but forgotten today, was the first deaf and blind person ever to learn language.
£15.95
The Train in the Night
How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. The "Train in the Night" is an account of one man's struggle to recover from the loss of his greatest passion in life.
£15.00
What's That Pig Outdoors? : A Memoir of Deafness
Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and expanded edition of Kisor's engrossing memoir recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses heartening changes over the last two decades due to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and advancements in cochlear implants and modes of communication.
£13.99
