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  • The Story of My Life
    Annie Sullivan / Helen Keller / John Albert Macy
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Story of My Life pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Story of My Life' is Helen Keller’s remarkable autobiography, a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Born in the nineteenth century, Keller recounts her journey navigating the wo...
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    32,68 €

  • How Not to F**K Up PIP
    Charlie Anderson
    Struggling to claim PIP - and sick of the stress, confusion and endless hoops to jump through?This book cuts through the crap and takes you step by step through the claim process. No nonsense, no sugar-coating - just straight-talking guidance to help you access the support you’re entitled to.You’ll learn what the system is really looking for, and how to present the everyday cha...
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    29,49 €

  • Keywords
    Dan McEvoy
    The word need appears in almost every statute governing disabled children’s lives in Britain. It looks like it is about the child. It is about the budget.Keywords A Vocabulary of Child Disability examines 176 such words - from Abandonment to Young Carer - that shape how Britain treats disabled children and their families. Each entry traces a word’s history and dissects its curr...
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    26,10 €

  • ABLE
    Sierra L Burke
    This story is not written for amputees. It is not written for people with disabilities. It is written for all people. We all face challenges in life. It is a question of how we move through life that determines our state of disability. I faced several different challenges in my life, from the loss of a leg in the middle of a successful athletic career to facing life as a transg...
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    8,77 €

  • The Illusion of Inclusion
    Latavia Sturdivant
    Inclusion without equity is an illusion.Based on Latavia Sturdivant’s powerful TEDx talk, The Illusion of Inclusion, this reflective journal and action guide is designed for anyone ready to move beyond diversity checkboxes and go deeper in creating authentic, equitable belonging in their communities.Inside, you’ll find: ∙ Guided reflection and journal prompts ∙ Thought-...
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    27,02 €

  • Route 66 An Accessible Guide to America’s Most Iconic Road Trip
    Amy Tarpein
    Route 66: An Accessible Guide to America’s Most Iconic Road Trip is a warm, practical, and deeply inclusive resource for families who travel differently. Written by award‑winning accessible travel writer and single mother of ten, Amy Tarpein, this guide blends emotional storytelling with real‑world accessibility insights for travelers of all ages and abilities.Inspired by her s...
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    28,37 €

  • Getting Over Obstacles
    Lennox Carty
    Getting Over Obstacles by Lennox Carty is a powerful and deeply personal collection of poems that shines a light on the everyday experiences of people living with disabilities. Through honest reflections, vivid imagery, and thoughtful storytelling, the author explores the physical, emotional and social challenges that many disabled people encounter in their daily lives.Drawing ...
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    6,50 €

  • The Scale of the Spectrum
    Joanna Grace
    The Scale of the Spectrum is an accessible collection of ’story pairs’ exploring the commonality of autistic experience. Each story pair tells an account of an autistic person with high support needs and/or their behaviour being misunderstood, alongside an experience of an autistic person with low support needs. Their stories are organised in two sections. In the first, underst...
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    40,14 €

  • Those in the Dark Silence
    Corinne Rocheleau / Rebecca Mack
    'Those in the Dark Silence: The Deaf-Blind in North America; A Record of to-Day' is a landmark sociological and educational study that documents the lives of deaf-blind individuals across the United States and Canada during the early 20th century. Authored by Corinne Rocheleau and Rebecca Mack, this work presents a meticulous survey of over 600 people, examining their social co...
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    23,22 €

  • The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences
    Frederick Treves
    'The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences' is a profoundly moving collection of memoirs by the distinguished British surgeon Sir Frederick Treves. Best known for providing the definitive account of Joseph Merrick, the individual widely known as the 'Elephant Man,' Treves offers a deeply compassionate look at a life defined by extreme physical deformity and extraordinary resilie...
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    23,07 €

  • Midstream
    Helen Keller
    'Midstream: My Later Life' is an insightful and moving autobiography by Helen Keller, continuing the narrative of her extraordinary life beyond her childhood and education. Written as a sequel to her earlier memoirs, this work explores the challenges and triumphs of her adulthood, offering a rare glimpse into the intellectual and social world of one of the 20th century’s most i...
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    26,95 €

  • Autonomie des personnes en situation de handicap psychique
    Erwan Correc
    L’association GEM le Passage accompagne depuis 2007 des personnes en situation de troubles et/ou de handicap psychique dans la création puis l’entretien de liens sociaux. Elle favorise le développement de leur participation et de leur autonomie à travers la gestion collective du dispositif groupe d’entraide mutuelle.Acteur de la santé mentale reconnu sur son territoire, son exp...
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    22,80 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies
    This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. ...
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    88,85 €

  • Disability Hate Crime
    Bringing together perspectives from academics, practitioners, campaigners, and activists, this book explores the victimology of disability hate crime (DHC). It is essential reading for those engaged with hate studies, victimology, disability, and vulnerable communities, as well as practitioners and campaigners. ...
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    80,02 €

  • Deaf People, Injustice and Reconciliation
    Hisayo Katsui / Maija Koivisto / Pauli Rautiainen
    This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900. ...
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    79,99 €

  • Living with Chronic Illness
    First published in 1988, the book presents a vivid account of the reality of life with chronic illness­-from perspective of patients and their families. It looks at expectations, priorities and problems of those most affected by chronic illness and examines strategies they have developed to cope with their considerable disadvantages. ...
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    60,96 €

  • LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DISABILITY
    Damian Mellifont
    This book is informed by authors with lived experience of disability and genuine disability allies. After providing a brief introduction to the chapters to follow, the book commences by addressing the challenging question of, who has lived experience of disability? The Australian disability policy issues to be discussed in the book are diverse and include: gaps between disabili...
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    39,00 €

  • Left Behind
    Liändrie Steffens
    Why, despite decades of legislation, quotas, and incentives, do persons with disabilities in South Africa remain excluded from meaningful work?Left Behind presents original nationwide research into the employment crisis facing persons with disabilities. Using a mixed methods approach that combines survey findings with qualitative insights, the book uncovers systemic barriers in...
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    39,36 €

  • The Silence They Wrote for Me
    Abigal Muchecheti
    The Silence They Wrote for Me is a searing memoir that lays bare the realities of being Black, disabled, and institutionalised in the UK. Tracing the author’s time in a psychiatric ward, the narrative reveals how spaces designed for healing often become instruments of control, especially for those whose identities already exist on the margins. What begins as a search for suppor...
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    39,24 €

  • The Paralympic Games Explained
    Ian Brittain
    Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the Games’ economic and social impact. ...
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    81,12 €

  • Transforming a Disability Through Everyday Life Experiences
    Anne-Lyse Chabert
    Transforming a Disability Through Everyday Life Experiences by Anne-Lyse Chabert explores when disability begins and how it can be defined beyond conventions. Using her own experience, she examines metamorphosis as a strategy to overcome physical and environmental constraints. She analyzes disability through normativity, affordance, and capability. Real-life cases- a quadripleg...
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    39,57 €

  • Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
    This book is about how we might think about vulnerability-what it is and how it operates-by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash. ...
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    81,61 €

  • Crip Screens
    Olivia Banner
    In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. Banner shows how institutions use documentary films, data visualization, network graphs, therapy chatbots, virtual patient training programs, and pharmaceutical adve...
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    33,30 €

  • The Playground Model of Disability
    David Bolt
    This book coins the term dis/honesty to define the moments in which dishonesty is invoked by disability, and vice versa. The concept is explored via contemporary British sociocultural representations - namely, jokes, disability sitcom, soap opera, radio interviews, fictionalised observations, and the robotic positionality of AI. ...
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    81,91 €

  • Flipping the Story on Disability and Violence
    Nancy Fitzsimons / Patsie Frawley
    Internationally there is a growing awareness that domestic, family, and sexual violence is a social issue that results from social structures and relational contexts that have positioned women as ’less than’ men. Alongside this has come social action by women that aim to change these structures using an intersectional framing of oppression. ...
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    81,56 €

  • Disability Psychotherapy
    Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities. ...
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    61,14 €

  • Caminhando Rumo Ao Sol
    Simone Fernandes Cardoso
    “Caminhando Rumo ao Sol” é uma obra emocionante e profundamente humana, escrita por Simone Fernandes Cardoso, que compartilha sua jornada como mãe de Renato, um menino autista que transformou sua vida.Entre memórias de fé, perdas dolorosas, descobertas e superações, a autora abre o coração para contar como enfrentou o diagnóstico, o preconceito, a solidão e as lutas diáriasmas ...
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    15,08 €

  • Kith and Kin and the Lived Experience of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
    Anne-Marie Callus
    This book considers the ways in which the lives of persons with intellectual disability are closely interconnected with those of the persons around them. ...
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    81,80 €

  • Disfigurement
    Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement. ...
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    74,87 €

  • Intersectional Colonialities
    This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined - post/de/anti/settler colonialism. ...
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    86,48 €


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