Books published by Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand begins this wide-ranging volume with an essay that extols diversity and warns of the dangers of modifying the human genome. Nora Groce reviews the ways that societies have defined disability and creates an interpretive framework for discussing the relationship between culture and disability. In essays devoted to historical perspective, Brian H. Greenwald comments upon the real "toll" taken by A. G. Bell's insistence upon oralism, while Joseph J. Murray weighs the nineteenth-century debate over whether deaf-deaf marriages should be encouraged. John S. Schuchman's chilling account of deafness and eugenics in the Nazi era adds wrenching reinforcement to the impetus to include disabled people in genetics debates. Mark Willis offers an intensely personal reflection on the complexities of genetic alteration, addressing both his heart condition and his blindness in surprisingly different ways. Anna Middleton extends Willis's concepts in her discussion of couples currently considering the use of genetic knowledge and technology to select for or against a gene that causes deafness. In the part on the science of genetics, Orit Dagan, Karen B. Avraham, Kathleen S. Arnos, and Arti Pandya clarify the choices presented by genetic engineering, and geneticist Walter E. Nance emphasizes the importance of science in offering individuals knowledge from which they can fashion their own decisions. In the concluding section, Christopher Krentz raises moral questions about the ever-continuing search for human perfection, and Michael Bérubé argues that disability should be considered democratically to ensure full participation of disabled people in all decisions that might affect them.

The second volume in the Deaf Lives series presents the compelling account of Miller, the oldest child of deaf adults (CODA), caught in the middle of inter-generational family conflicts on a small farm in the 1950s.

The Third Volume in the Interpreter Education Series expands the tools available to instructors with chapters by a cast of international scholars on new curricula, creative teaching methods, critical skills, and more.

This book offers an unusual perspective of the process by which three deaf French biographers from the 19th-20th centuries attempted to cross the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds.

Kleege, a blind professor from UC Berkeley, reexamines the life of Helen Keller from a contemporary point of view with startling, refreshing results.

This collection showcases the best scholarship on all aspects of Deaf life presented by more than 100 researchers at the 2002 internationial Deaf forum in Washington, DC.

Employs a straightforward methodology in the examination of the use of Taiwan Sign Language handshapes in five chapters. This work discusses the two approaches linguists have taken toward understanding languages, and how these theories have influenced sign language researchers' consideration of the ease of articulation and frequency of handshapes.

An account of the author's growing up as the hearing daughter of deaf Jewish parents during the 1930s and 1940s, revealing the challenges deaf people faced during the Depression and afterward. She portrays her family with honesty, and her account provides a living narrative of the Deaf experience in pre- and post-World War II America.

When Richard Medugno and his wife learned that their 17-month-old daughter Miranda was deaf, they grieved. In this book, Medugno provides practical information on many of the common challenges faced by hearing parents. He provides a list of games that hearing and deaf children can play together, an important consideration for many families.

In this volume, 250 full-color photographs capture Deaf Way II, the international celebration of 9,000 deaf people that took place July, 2002, in Washington, D.C.

Homesteader in Iowa, a 49er in the California Gold Rush, and editor of his town-s local paper, Edmund Booth epitomized the classic 19th-century pioneer, except for one difference - he was deaf.

From Pity to Pride depicts the history of young, wealthy men in the old South who were barred from high posts because they were deaf, and how they formed their own societies that after the Civil War included deaf northerners.

"Horst Biesold's Crying Hands treats a neglected aspect of the Holocaust: the fate of the deaf in Nazi Germany. His book covers a story that has remained almost unknown. In the United States, even in Germany, few are aware that during the Nazi era human beings-men, women, and children-with impaired hearing were sterilized against their will, and even fewer know that many of the deaf were also murdered." --From the Introduction by Henry Friedlander

Deaf President Now! reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors interviewed in-depth more than 50 of the principal players. This telling book reveals the critical role played by a little-known group called the "Ducks," a tight-knit band of six alumni determined to see a deaf president at Gallaudet. Deaf President Now! details how they urged the student leaders to ultimate success, including an analysis of the reasons for their achievement in light of the failure of many other student movements. This fascinating study also scrutinizes the lasting effects of this remarkable episode in "the civil rights movement of the deaf." Deaf President Now! tells the full story of the insurrection at Gallaudet University, an exciting study of how deaf people won social change for themselves and all disabled people everywhere through a peaceful revolution.

At Home Among Strangers presents an engrossing portrait of the Deaf community as a complex, nationwide social network that offers unique kinship to Deaf people across the country. Schein details the history and culture of the Deaf community, its structural under-pinnings, the intricacies of family life, issues of education and rehabilitation, economic factors, and interaction with the medical and legal professions. This book is a fascinating, provocative exploration of the Deaf community in the United States for scholars and lay people alike.

This guide provides parents with strategies for helping a deaf child learn to read and write, offering activities that parents can do at home with their deaf child and suggestions for working with the child's school and teachers. Emphasis is on the developmental link between American Sign Language a

Travel with Deaf journalist Henri Gaillard as he describes deaf labor leaders seeking jobs for deaf workers to support the nation's entry into World War I, how local deaf persons founded the first Deaf clubs and churches, and more at the beginning of the 20th century.