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  • 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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    20,94 €

  • Image of Disability
    Amber E George
    A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppressive stigmas and discrimination. In response to representations that have been incomplete, misguided or unimaginative, this collection of new essays encourages scholars and allies to refashion media so as to disrupt the status quo and m...
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    57,15 €

  • Accessibility Disabled World Travels - Tips for Travelers with Disabilities
    Tracey Ingram
    Are you one of the many active seniors or baby boomers who have some disabilities and wants to travel? Do you have special needs, use a wheelchair and are looking for accessible travel options?  Let’s face it, there are over 50 million people in the United States with disabilities and over 180 million worldwide with evidence suggesting that people with disabilities face many ba...
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    9,07 €

  • Travis Roy
    David H. Hendrickson
    “I realize how fortunate I was to spend the first half of my life with a passion, thanks to my hockey career. It took me a while to realize it, but now I feel fortunate to have lived the second half of my life with a purpose.”– Travis RoyThe dream goes from euphoric reality to tragic nightmare in a split second.The life of a hockey player ends; the life of a quadriplegic begins...
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    6,66 €

  • A Positive Result
    Joanne Pasquale
    One in a thousand babies born in the UK every year has an extra chromosome that means they have Down syndrome. This is one boy’s story as seen through his mother’s eyes. When Jo and Cliff were told their child had Down syndrome at the 15th week of pregnancy they had little idea of what this meant. Determined to provide the best for him, Jo found Jamie could teach her as much as...
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    15,13 €

  • Brenda
    Kitty Garner
    After the birth of Brenda my downs syndrome daughter and not knowing which way to turn. This book takes you along the road walked by us, the people we meet along the way with a positive and negative attitude. Many things learned through trial and error, some never lost others never learned. The goal to keep Brenda happy and healthy. 3 ...
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    6,47 €

  • Disability in the Media
    Tracy R. Worrell / Tracy R Worrell / Tracy R. Worrell / Tracy RWorrell
    Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity looks at how disabilities are portrayed within the media and how individuals with disabilities are affected by their representation. The effects of media representation can be seen both at the level of the individual, with effects on self-identity for those with a disability, and at the level of society as a whole, with the...
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    115,69 €

  • Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy
    Bob PhD Bertolino
    Grounded in over 50 years of outcome research, this comprehensive textbook focuses on outcomes management and the principles and core strategies for delivering competent and effective therapeutic practice. Applicable to all settings and models, the text illuminates four foundational principles of therapeutic practice: a strengths-based framework, collaborative practice, clinici...
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    110,04 €

  • Fools and idiots?
    Irina Metzler
    Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life. ...
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    46,74 €

  • Exploring Confidence!!!
    John Kennedy
    Independence shall always reach each with support in and throughout success to each signalled one with all involvement along involving each live around. Extraordinary times and lives revolve around each and all in some way this though is one to which really brings eyes open into new stories around the world. 3 ...
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    13,02 €

  • Exploring Confidence!!!
    John Kennedy
    Independence shall always reach each with support in and throughout success to each signalled one with all involvement along involving each live around. Extraordinary times and lives revolve around each and all in some way this though is one to which really brings eyes open into new stories around the world. 3 ...
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    23,16 €

  • The Lives of Chang and Eng
    Joseph Andrew Orser
    Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as 'freaks of nature' and 'Oriental curiosities.' More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners...
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    38,07 €

  • Mikey & Me
    A E Vanaguntla
    For those who have never heard of, nor understand Autism, this easy-to-read personal journey will tug at your emotions; open your eyes and ears to the struggles that families looking after children with disabilities may face. ~ Dr Edwin YipHe taught me a lot through his courage to persevere with communication, and in using his own creative ways of  trying to get his message acr...
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    10,40 €

  • Come, Let Me Guide You
    Susan Krieger
    Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the 10-year span of their working life together.This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life’s challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that...
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    16,14 €

  • The Little Gate-Crasher
    Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer
    Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf—forty-three inches tall with an average-sized head and a torso set on small, twisted legs—but that didn’t mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over the years, he learned to effectively turn what society in those days called a handicap into a powerful tool he could use to his advantage. This b...
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    14,78 €

  • Intellectual disability
    This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts. ...
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    169,56 €

  • Don’t Just Sign... Communicate!
    Michelle Jay
    The Heart Of Any Language Is Found Within Its Culture... As anyone who has learned a foreign language will tell you, all language is an experience. And that experience is found through a language's culture... its people. The journey toward complete comprehension and usage of American Sign Language includes the recognition, not only of the sovereignty of the language, but of...
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    46,13 €

  • Holding Up The Sky Together
    Ronald Bishop
    Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media. Even when there is progress, making such a leap provides rhetorical cover, or at least a distraction,...
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    39,36 €

  • Don’t Cramp My Style
    Simon Cramp
    David Brindle of The Guardian writes in his Foreword to the book:'Thirty years is no time at all in the scheme of things. Yet it seems an altogether different era when you look back to the 1980s and reflect that we were still sending people with learning disabilities to long-stay hospitals as a matter of course. We’ve come a long way since then. It’s easy to forget that when yo...
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    17,49 €

  • Attachments to War
    Jennifer Terry
    In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same ...
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    35,33 €

  • Diagnosing Folklore
    Contributions by Sheila Bock, London Brickley, Olivia Caldeira, Diane E. Goldstein, Darcy Holtgrave, Kate Parker Horigan, Michael Owen Jones, Elaine J. Lawless, Amy Shuman, Annie Tucker, and Kristiana WillseyDiagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of ind...
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    50,13 €

  • Who Gets Amy's Room?
    Jacqueline Rowe Coryell
    Meet Amy. As a five-year-old, Amy dashed between parked cars into the street, where she was struck down. The only reason she survived was because a police car was one vehicle back. Rushed to a hospital in minutes, Amy survived--but never to return as the beautiful, smart, active five-year-old she had been.Despite her handicaps, Amy was a loving big sister to her three siblings....
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    7,76 €

  • Disabilities in Nigeria
    Edwin Etieyibo / Odirin Omiegbe
    The book examines issues of disabilities in Nigeria focusing on attitudes and reactions to people with disabilities within the context of practices perpetuating the treatment of people with disabilities. It contributes to research in the field by advancing discussions on society’s positive engagement with disabilities issues and remediation of negative treatment of people with ...
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    87,56 €

  • Factors in Studying Employment for Persons with Disability
    Barbara Altman
    This collection examines less frequently anaylzed aspects of employment for persons with disabilities, offering a variety of approaches to the conceptualization of work, and how it differs across cultures, organizations, and types of disability. ...
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    210,32 €

  • Rainbow People - Supporting the Disabled to Become Enabled
    Barbara Woodward
    We live in a world of individual differences. Yet when you take a closer look at anyone at all, you find that, essentially, we are all the same. This book tells you why that is.The author shares with you the informative and entertaining stories of her life work journey with disabled people. She relates how her path was ‘intercepted’ by a special group of individuals early in he...
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    18,98 €

  • Guardianship Reality
    Fernando Gutierrez / Robert Fertig
    WHO’S LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICA'S ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN & THE ELDERLY?The court orders Professional Guardians to make critical decisions; this pragmatic guide explains how to make those decisions. It guides the reader through the process of making bio-ethical healthcare, ethical social and welfare choices, and how to prudently manage client assets, while avoiding confli...
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    27,60 €

  • Guardianship Reality
    Fernando Gutierrez / Robert Fertig
    WHO’S LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICA'S ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN & THE ELDERLY?The court orders Professional Guardians to make critical decisions; this pragmatic guide explains how to make those decisions. It guides the reader through the process of making bio-ethical healthcare, ethical social and welfare choices, and how to prudently manage client assets, while avoiding confli...
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    18,47 €

  • Naming Adult Autism
    Dr James McGrath / 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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    149,75 €

  • Disability and Academic Exclusion
    E R Weatherup / E. R. Weatherup / ERWeatherup
    Disability and Academic Exclusion interrogates obstacles the disabled have encountered in education, from a historical perspective that begins with the denial of literacy to minorities in the colonial era to the later centuries’ subsequent intolerance of writing, orality, and literacy mastered by former slaves, women, and the disabled. The text then questions where we stand tod...
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    115,77 €

  • Using Technology to Improve Care of Older Adults
    Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well-being of older adults. It provides key information about the development, selection, and implementation of technology products, and describes research evidence, education-bas...
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    78,77 €


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