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Deaf -- Means of communication

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• Straight Language for the Deaf: A System of Instruction for Deaf Children (9th printing; Washington: Volta Bureau, 1962), by Edith Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)

• El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Standardization, Efficiency, Heredity: Schools for the Deaf (Indianapolis, IN: Burford, 1920), by Richard Otto Johnson (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Poor-House to Pulpit, or, The Triumphs of the Late Dr. John Kitto, From Boyhood to Manhood: A Book for Youth (Boston: E. O. Libby and Co.; New York: C. Scribner, 1859), by William M. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb, by Harvey Prindle Peet (page images at MOA)

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)
• American Annals of the Deaf (partial serial archives)
• American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb (full serial archives)

• The Venture (Detroit: J. N. Williams, 1883), by Angeline A. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)

• Edmund Booth (1810-1905) Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer, by Edmund Booth (HTML at LOC)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Invited Alphabet: or, Address of A To B Containing His Friendly Proposal for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children (London: B. Tabart and Co., 1809), by R. R., illust. by Charles Knight (page images at Princeton)

• Air Pictures (Sign Language) (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians: With Some Comparisons (Washington: G.P.O., 1880), by Garrick Mallery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the North American Indians As Illustrating the Gesture Speech of Mankind (Washington: GPO, 1880), by Garrick Mallery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington : G.P.O., 1897), by Walter James Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Project in Understanding New Media: Prepared and Published Pursuant to a Contract With the Office of Education, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare (typescript; 1960), by National Association of Educational Broadcasters and Marshall McLuhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1987), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• Empire and Communications (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Minerva's Owl (1947), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Elite Discourse and Racism (Newbury Park, CA et al: Sage Publications, c1993), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (1979), by Joel de Rosnay, trans. by Robert Edwards (illustrated HTML with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Networking Game, by Patricia Wagner and Leif Smith (HTML at pattern.com)

• Australia in the Information Age (ACSJC occasional paper #14; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, c1992), by Christina Spurgeon and Paul Chadwick (PDF in Australia)

• Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China, by Ashley Esarey (PDF at freedomhouse.org)

• Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Francisco Yus (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Liberated and Occupied Iraq: New Beginnings and Challenges for Press Freedom (2004), by Freedom House (U.S.) (PDF at unhcr.org)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• International Journal of Communication (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (prepublication version, 2003), by Brian Martin and Wendy Varney (PDF in Australia)
• Communication and Democracy: Coincident Revolutions and the Emergent Dictator's Dilemma (1997), by Christopher R. Kedzie (HTML at rand.org)

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John R. Suler (illustrated HTML with commentary at truecenterpublishing.com)

• The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Nancy C. Kranich (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Reading Rhetorical Theory: Speech, Representation, and Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, ca. 2022), ed. by Atilla Hallsby (multiple formats with commentary at umn.edu)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Business Communication for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2010), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)
• Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers (2007), by Peter John Chen (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• How to Study and Write Good Letters, Applications, Compositions, Telegrams, Agreements, Better Sentences, Important Letters, Speaking in Public, and Teach Yourself Good English (Nigeria, ca.1964), by Wilfred Onwuka (PDF with commentary at Kansas)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

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