Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf.
by Sacks, Oliver
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0330311611
- ISBN 13
- 9780330311618
- Seller
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Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf is a 1989 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book covers a variety of topics in deaf studies, including sign language, the neurology of deafness, the history of the treatment of deaf Americans, and linguistic and social challenges facing the deaf community. It also contains an eyewitness account of the March 1988 Deaf President Now student protest at Gallaudet University, a school for the hearing impaired.
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- Bookseller
- N. G. Lawrie Books. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55910
- Title
- Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf.
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0330311611
- ISBN 13
- 9780330311618
- Publisher
- Picador.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Oliver Sacks Deaf Deafness Hearing Visual Language History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.