Talking hands : what sign language reveals about the mind / Margalit Fox.

Introduction
1. In the village of the deaf
2. "What is this wonderful language?"
3. The road to Al-Sayyid
4. The sign-language instinct
5. Starry night
6. The atoms of sign
7. The house of blue roses
8. Everyone here speaks sign language
9. Hyssop
10. The web of words
11. The house built from the second story down
12. Grammar in midair
13. Hassan's house
14. A sign in mind
15. The house of twenty children
16. The signing brain
17. In a wet place
Afterword : It takes a village
A note on sources
References
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.