{"product_id":"9781563682940","title":"The Deaf Way II Reader: Perspectives from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary volume features the very best of the scholarship presented at the Deaf Way II, the second international Deaf gathering in 2002 in Washington, DC. More than 100 contributors from countries as far afield as Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and Thailand share their research on a broad spectrum of disciplines joined together by the common Deaf experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Deaf Way II Reader\u003c\/i\u003e addresses every facet of the human condition from a Deaf World perspective in 65 unique studies, including all plenary addresses. Editor Harvey Goostein has organized these articles in 12 parts: Advocacy and Community Development; Economics; Education; Family; Health and Mental Health; History; Language and Culture; Literature; Recreation, Leisure, and Sports; Sign Language and Interpreting; Technology; and Youth. Each treatise examines one aspect of the deaf experience within a particular community or country. Together, they reveal how deaf people throughout the world live, study, work, and play, as well as how they relate to their families and the dominant hearing societies in which most of them reside. \u003ci\u003eThe Deaf Way II Reader\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating compendium of current knowledge that can, in the words of Deaf Way II host I. King Jordan, “help make the world a better place for deaf people.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallaudet University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054841020656,"sku":"9781563682940","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781563682940_p0.jpg?v=1763787602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781563682940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}