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The Artificial Ear
When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages. Part ethnography and part historical study, The Artificial Ear is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930s, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950s, and to the widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980s.
Saunders’ Field Guide to Gladioli of South Africa
The genus Gladiolus has fascinated plant collectors, taxonomists and the general public for centuries. Known for their spectacular flowers, these highly adapted and specialised plants occur throughout Africa, Madagascar, Europe and the Middle East. South Africa is home to more than half of the world’s Gladiolus species and the Western Cape is the heart of species diversity. Saunders’ Field Guide to Gladioli of South Africa is the first of its kind to offer a complete photographic record of the 166 species that occur in the region. Posthumously completed, this book is the culmination of the Saunders’ long search to find and photograph every known species of Gladiolus in South Africa. It...
Bitter Sting of Lies
Sallee is a 1st class swimmer, Olympic bound, get-ting a 4 year Scholarship. This isn't to Saunders liking, who is in love with her. He wants her with him. He se-duces and gets her pregnant, promising marriage soon as he returns from a business trip.When he's gone a letter came with a check suppos-edly from him saying, he's had a change of heart.Her Mother took her away. Heartbroken Saunders started a search, wanted to tell her the truth but couldn't find her.She's been gone 5 years, now she's a multi-billion-aire widow with a Son Pirate returned to set the Rand-olff's and town on their asses. She sets the town on its heels, will have nothing to do with Saunders 4th .Oh yeah! She's Dynamite!!!!
Dragonfly Blessings
Motherless since age five, Rebecca Rogers is no stranger to loss. But when her husband is killed in combat, she is devastated. Rebecca struggles to move forward despite her grief until the morning she receives an intriguing letter from a North Carolina attorney informing her that she is the sole heir of an estate. Rebeccas whole life is about to change. Convinced by her cousins to investigate, she travels to North Carolina where she discovers that terminally ill Michele Dupr is her biological motherRebecca was adopted at birth. As she adjusts to this new reality, her past collides with the present when handsome marine Kyle Saunders captures her heart. Only time will tell, however, if their love can survive her careless mistake, his troubling secret, and the past that haunts them. Dragonfly Blessings shares one womans compelling journey to the truth as she comes full circle and realizes her destiny and the true definition of family.
Rebuilt
Chorost chronicles his journey from deafness to hearing, from human to cyborg, and how it transformed him. Written with self-deprecating, dry wit this volume explores hearing, sound, and software that can now mend the senses.
Western Lane
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, NPR, and Kirkus • A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete’s struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo. But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe. An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.
Rugby World Cup 1987 - 2015: Complete Results and Statistics
New Zealand's wonderful victory over close rivals Australia in the Twickenham final brought to close a thrilling 2015 Rugby World Cup which saw southern hemisphere teams dominate and playing a style of rugby which left the northern teams wondering how they can compete in future. This 395 page book concentrates on the 2015 tournament, detailing each pool and knock-out phase match, full information on all the qualifying competitions, each country's squads with changes made, plus a 10 page section filled with records and statistics from both the latest tournament and for the history of the world cup. The book also has match details for every game played in the world cup since 1987.
Rugby World Cup 1987 - 2019: Complete Results and Statistics
South Africa's victory over England in the Yokohama final brought to close a thrilling 2019 Rugby World Cup. This 443 page book is a statistical record of every match played in the nine world cups since 1987 and then concentrates on the 2019 tournament, with each pool and knock-out phase match, full information on the worldwide qualifying competitions, each country's squads, followed by records from both the 2019 tournament and across history of the competition.
