sign language website and or book.?

Try this: Shelly, Susan & Schneck, Jim – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Sign Language. It’s very user-friendly.

Also a great book about sign language is Groce, Nora Ellen – Everybody Here Spoke Sign Language. This book is about Martha’s Vineyard Island—especially the towns of West Tisbury and Chilmark—which for over two hundred years had a high incidence of hereditary deafness. The residents compensated for this condition by inventing or borrowing an efficient sign language, which was used by almost everyone, hearing and deaf alike. Although the last hereditary deaf person in Chilmark died in 1952, some of the older residents still remember the days when everyone spoke sign language. From the memories of these informants and a wealth of archival material, Nora Groce has compiled a detailed, vivid description of daily life on the Vineyard in the early days of this century. She shows the extraordinary degree to which deaf people were integrated into the community, for Vineyarders did not consider deafness to be a handicap.