Written for professionals students and anyone who has a deaf person in his or her life. Delves into the language culture community and daily lives of those living in the DEAF-WORLD. The opening pages immerse you into deaf culture right away as Bahan introduces himself briefly summarizing his life and education and then proceeds to introduce his fellow writers in a similar manner. This is how any deaf individual would respond when meeting one another. [Harlan Lane Robert Hoffmeister Ben Bahan; (1996) 513 pages; soft cover]