{"product_id":"the-invention-of-miracles-9781913348403","title":"The Invention Of Miracles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell ― renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people know that it was inspired by another supposed miracle: his work teaching the deaf to speak. The son of one deaf woman and husband to another, he was motivated by a desire to empower deaf people by integrating them into the hearing world, but he ended up becoming their most powerful enemy, waging a war against sign language and deaf culture that still rages today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Invention of Miracles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the dual stories of Bell’s remarkable, world-changing invention and his dangerous ethnocide of deaf culture and language. It also charts the rise of deaf activism and tells the triumphant tale of a community reclaiming a once-forbidden language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKatie Booth has researched this story for over a decade, poring over Bell’s papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell’s legacy on her deaf family set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and technology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Scribe Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42418048762062,"sku":"9781913348403","price":24.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781913348403_A.png?v=1742805909","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/the-invention-of-miracles-9781913348403","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}