Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community [Mass Market Paperback]

M. Dolores Torres Paris (Editor), Mark Drolsbaugh (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: A G O Gifts & Pubns; 1 edition (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967399807
• ISBN-13: 978-0967399805
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Possibility!!!!, September 1, 2003

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This review is from: Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community (Mass Market Paperback)

Cut up into short essays, this book shares with you the many experiences and feelings of those involved with the Deaf community. Everything from humor to insight to blood-boiling frustration will hit you as you read this book. Interested in learning about the Deaf community? Learning about different deaf people's experiences? About both sides of the coin? Then this book is perfect for you, easy to read, and well worth your time and money. Highly recommended. That's just this deafie's opinion. :o)

5.0 out of 5 stars Profiles of Deaf People and People of Deaf, February 9, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community (Mass Market Paperback)

Entertaining, easy+to+read and inspiring. It would make an enjoyable collection for elementary, high school and college, not only that adults.. and can be used as text or supplement for Deaf Studies, Sign Language Classes or American History including Deaf American Indians. Happy Exploring! A very few book like DEaf Esprit where you can find that they have challenges to overcome... being Deaf may be among their challenges.. what a way to lift up the spirits..finding page after page of inspiration like Henning C. F. Irgens, Majoriebell S. Holcomb, Damara Goff Paris' and Glenn Alfred/Karen B. Johnson, The Dine and the others.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book EVER!, February 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Deaf Esprit: Inspiration, Humor and Wisdom from the Deaf Community (Mass Market Paperback)

I strongly recommend that you read this book! From Charlotte Wilhite's struggle to determine whether her deaf son should have a cochlear implant and Jake Donnell's frank discussion on how his family should accept, rather than fix him, to Henning Irgen's life as a deaf teenager in Norway during the Nazi occupation. Also of note is Damara Paris' vivid description of an India-born deaf man and his struggle to prove his independence, Donna Platt's humourous take on her Phillipine name sign and the poems written by Rusty Wales, Carrie Pierce and Marianne Decher. A MUST read!