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  • He’s a Lil’ Quirky
    Jon Locke
    This book came about because our 10-year-old son wanted to end his life without any warning or any writing on the wall. It was this revelation and many more that compelled our family into action. I wrote this book with an extremely personal and candid approach because I believe that if others can benefit from our journey, I need to show the good, the bad, and the downright pain...
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    19,01 €

  • He’s a Lil’ Quirky
    Jon Locke
    This book came about because our 10-year-old son wanted to end his life without any warning or any writing on the wall. It was this revelation and many more that compelled our family into action. I wrote this book with an extremely personal and candid approach because I believe that if others can benefit from our journey, I need to show the good, the bad, and the downright pain...
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    21,58 €

  • Libraries and Reading
    Leah Plocharczyk / Matthew Conner
    In a climate of tightened budgets and severe demands on public literacy resources, Conner and Plocharczyck go to the foundations of social justice in Cultural Studies to show how the means of integrating those with disabilities into libraries and communities can be found in our everyday practices. ...
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    143,07 €

  • Disability Across the Developmental Lifespan, Second Edition
    Julie Smart
    This is the only text to examine the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growthand development. It provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability thatencompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas. The second edition is updatedto underscore its versatility as an introductory text about the developmental tasks of...
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    125,42 €

  • New Narratives of Disability
    This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability through questions about narrative frameworks in disability research.Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal. ...
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    174,32 €

  • The Wiles of the Devil
    Jaan Ranne
    Aimed at a general audience whether Christian or non-Christian. 3 ...
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    20,19 €

  • My Life in The Stormy Seas
    James Vincent
    My Life in the Stormy Seas is a book of passion of James Vincent who knew deep inside that Sylvia, his wife, was chronically mentally ill. Yet, he wanted to save their marriage. This story tells how Dr. Thomas travelled through the lives of Sylvia, in various countries, and Vincent. This book tells how people with no discernment abilities made insincere and unwise choices in mi...
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    12,91 €

  • Second Class Citizens
    Stef Benstead
    Are disabled people second class citizens in modern Britain? Despite severe criticisms from the United Nations the UK Government has continued to reject claims that its austerity policies have targeted disabled people. In this authoritative book, Stef Benstead explores these competing claims against the background of the development of the welfare state, the campaign for disabi...
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    17,32 €

  • Developmental Challenges and Societal Issues for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
    Rejani Thudalikunnil Gopalan
    Intellectual disability is a generalized disorder appearing before adulthood characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning and deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors. With the current limitations in curative treatment for intellectual disabilities, the rehabilitation and management of affected individuals remains a major factor in the management and treatmen...
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    386,87 €

  • Communication Alternatives in Autism
    Peña Edlyn Vallejo
    Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting method (RPM) and facilitated communication (FC), both highly controversial. Their narratives document the complexities that autistic individuals navigate--in both educational and community settings--when choosing to use approaches that utilize letter boards and ke...
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    40,61 €

  • Disability
    Michael Rembis
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    81,95 €

  • Navigating in the Dark
    Giulia Jaramillo
    Rarely does a story hold the power and emotion of "Navigating in the Dark"—a roller-coaster ride of deception, truth, and the damage that can be created in a young, disabled girl’s life when everyone around her is keeping a secret… Author and practicing Psychotherapist Giulia Jaramillo was born with a disease called Macular Degeneration, but it took 35 years of searching to fin...
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    19,13 €

  • Supporting Students on the Autism Spectrum
    Kerry Walton / Rachel McMullin
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    90,73 €

  • God, Suffering, and Disability
    Mary Schaefer Fast
    God, Suffering, and Disability: A Trinitarian Theodicy of the Cross utilizes both Christological and pneumatological perspectives of Luther’s theology of the cross to address the complexities of suffering and disability. Through the lens of the cross, the God who suffers enables humans to 'call a thing what it is' by recognizing the suffering that often accompanies disability. ...
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    129,21 €

  • Lily Bell
    Amanda Thackeray
    Lily Bell: Worthy of Love is intended for children and adults of all ages. It is a fable of a frail yet determined dove named Lily Bell who is unable to fly. With the help of her family and some unlikely friends, she journeys through the forest to finally find what she has been searching for: her purpose and worth. ...
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    13,87 €

  • Lily Bell
    Amanda Thackeray
    Lily Bell: Worthy of Love is intended for children and adults of all ages. It is a fable of a frail yet determined dove named Lily Bell who is unable to fly. With the help of her family and some unlikely friends, she journeys through the forest to finally find what she has been searching for: her purpose and worth. 3 ...
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    31,08 €

  • Being Realistic Isn’t Realistic
    Emma Van Der Klift / Norman Kunc
    In this engaging, humorous and provocative collection of essays, Emma Van der Klift and Norman Kunc gently prod us to rethink many taken for granted and unquestioned assumptions about the nature of disability. They begin with a challenge and an assertion; people have the right to be disabled and should be under no obligation to minimize or hide their disabilities. Disability, t...
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    31,31 €

  • Creative Ideas For Worship With All Abilities
    Hazel Bradley / Jim Cargin
    This vital resource draws on the vast experience of the L'Arche community to offer practical guidance and ideas for imaginative worship that engages people with learning and other disabilities.It explores the essential considerations of pastoral work with those with learning disabilities, as well as patterns of prayer and worship that are most appropriate. It offers practic...
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    54,22 €

  • La convention des nations unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées
    Editors: M. Tremblay, V. Guerdan, M. Boukala, J-P. Cobbaut. _ La Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (CDPH) s’inscrit dans une nouvelle éthique de la citoyenneté et participe au développement d’une culture des droits de l’homme valorisant la citoyenneté, la participation sociale, l’engagement politique et démocratique des personnes en situation de handicap....
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    55,83 €

  • Six and a Half Years on a Dunghill
    Peter Gibilisco
    Peter Gibilisco's aim in this book is to affirm vital principles that must be better understood and implemented if the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is going to be of benefit and fulfill its mandate; so that care doesn't become careless. He wants to encourage people to keep on pushing the case for disability justice! His book is aimed at those providing a ...
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    26,35 €

  • Disability and Inclusive Communities
    Kevin Timpe
    Disability and Inclusive Communities intends to help readers learn how to build communities that fully include people with disabilities. Often our social practices unintentionally exclude those with disabilities by making it difficult for them to fully participate in the community. These practices hurt those whom we exclude. But they are also bad for our communities as a whole....
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    7,99 €

  • Naming Adult Autism
    Dr. James McGrath / James Dr. McGrath / James DrMcGrath
    Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a ’social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards...
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    47,29 €

  • Sport, Mental Illness and Sociology
    Michael Atkinson
    This book approaches the study of mental illness in sport cultures from a variety of social scientific perspectives. Contributions focus on the multiple manifestations of mental illness within sport cultures, and the degree to which sport may be utilized as a means of helping people who struggle with mental illness. ...
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    184,46 €

  • Undeniable Solidarity
    David Hagner Ph.D.
    Undeniable Solidarity tells the story of our long partnership with dogs from the first friendly wolves who guarded our sleep during the Stone Age to their roles today as our best friends, trusted and joyful pets, and their service as therapy, detection, and rescue dogs. Dogs and humans have lived together for thirty thousand years, and they have changed us as much as we have ch...
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    12,45 €

  • Undeniable Solidarity
    David Hagner Ph.D.
    Undeniable Solidarity tells the story of our long partnership with dogs from the first friendly wolves who guarded our sleep during the Stone Age to their roles today as our best friends, trusted and joyful pets, and their service as therapy, detection, and rescue dogs. Dogs and humans have lived together for thirty thousand years, and they have changed us as much as we have ch...
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    20,62 €

  • From Longing to Belonging
    Shelly Christensen
    Inclusion is More Than Being––a House of Prayer for All Peoples Everyone wants to belong—in their community at large and especially their faith-based community. Nearly 20 percent of people live with a disability or mental health condition, which means so many families—maybe even yours—are dealing with these issues for their loved one. The one place everyone should feel like the...
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    21,89 €

  • The Bioethics of Enhancement
    Melinda Hall
    In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and...
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    50,43 €

  • Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities
    Denis Anson
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    56,32 €

  • From Disability Theory to Practice
    From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned eight chapters engaging in topics that range, as the title suggests and as Profe...
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    136,36 €

  • Thunderstorms in My Brain
    Rosalie Brown
    Thunderstorms are erupting inside Rosalies brain. When she is six years old, Rosalie has her first seizure and learns she has epilepsy. As she grows older, she tries to navigate a world made more difficult by her disability. Though sometimes its scary, she never gives up. With the help of her family and her seizure response dog, Rolex, Rosalie learns that she can help others an...
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    30,19 €


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