Harlan Lane: 3 books
When the Mind Hears
A History of the Deaf
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
The People of the Eye
Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
What are ethnic groups? Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? In The People of the Eye, Deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology, genetics, sociology, and disability studies are brought to bear as the authors compare the values, customs, and social organization...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...