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  • The Virtue of Giving Up
    Ph.D. Judith Anne Dent
    This is the story of Judith Dent, a girl growing up in the middle of the last century, completely blind as well as autistic, at a time when few people had even heard of autism. Judy, in her own words, was “a child who could lie on the floor and scream until she turned blue from the sheer desperation of realizing she was different, not only from sighted children, but from other ...
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    16,59 €

  • Journey into Blindness
    Kent Christy
    Kent Christy offers his readers the moving story of his gradual loss of vision and the trauma and emotional turmoil this caused in his life. As he notes in his introduction, going totally blind is in many ways not so different from the experience of losing a limb, developing a debilitating illness, or going through the trauma of losing a loved one, or even one’s home. A tumor f...
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    16,41 €

  • Results From The Forbidden Human Act
    Lynn Latham
    For a long time, Lynn Latham wanted to know why humans have been performing such forbidden acts of behavior that caused their children to be born with slow learning abilities to almost mental retardation, physical handicaps, prenatal mortality, social problems, malformations, and many other problems. What Latham discovered is that these mental and physical problems the children...
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    10,40 €

  • From Career Woman to Crippled and Beyond
    Anita Ibrahim / Rhonda Nay
    This book takes a first-hand look at the struggles of two women working to break through the glass ceiling. But at the height of their careers, they crash due to illness. The way they initially broke through the glass ceiling and then crashed down to earth and rebuilt their identities is a good reading material for all women trying to get to the top and also those who are force...
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    22,64 €

  • From Career Woman to Crippled and Beyond
    Anita Ibrahim / Rhonda Nay
    This book takes a first-hand look at the struggles of two women working to break through the glass ceiling. But at the height of their careers, they crash due to illness. The way they initially broke through the glass ceiling and then crashed down to earth and rebuilt their identities is a good reading material for all women trying to get to the top and also those who are force...
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    45,43 €

  • The Butterfly
    Judith A. Dempsey / Judith ADempsey
    This is the story of one family’s journey with their daughter who has Down’s syndrome from her birth in 1962 to her death in 2014 at the age of fifty-one. It also chronicles society’s response to persons with disabilities from institutionalization for life to, more recently, living with families or in group homes and, for those who are able, training and employment. ...
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    36,17 €

  • Mental Illness
    Leonard C. Wilton
    Mental illness, as well as alcoholism, affects more than one hundred million people in this society. There are various forms of this perplexing malady as most symptomatologies resemble a psychotic or neurotic predisposition. Trauma, whether physiological or psychological, seems to incur and cause one course of problematic and/or deleterious effect. Treatments, those that provid...
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    18,55 €

  • A Kid from the Bronx
    Ph.D. Norman Weistuch
    I grew up in the Bronx during turbulent times. I was in elementary school during the first desegregation of the public schools in the early 1960s. This and my idealism formation during the late 1960s had a big impact on my values and my career. I went to City College of New York, and one of my psychology professors was Dr. Kenneth Clark, who was the major witness during Brown v...
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    10,48 €

  • Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939
    A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. ...
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    169,83 €

  • No Right to Be Idle
    Sarah F. Rose / Sarah FRose
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as 'unproductive citizens.' Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. B...
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    53,94 €

  • No Right to Be Idle
    Sarah F. Rose / Sarah FRose
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as 'unproductive citizens.' Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans had long viewed productivity as a spectrum that varied by age, gender, and ability. B...
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    126,40 €

  • Brilliant Imperfection
    Eli Clare
    In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Clare gr...
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    21,92 €

  • The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art
    Lisa Trentin
    The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hel...
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    64,43 €

  • Disability and the Media
    Gerard Goggin / Katie Ellis
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    48,86 €

  • Home from Purgatory
    Judith Daniel Leasure
    “Shortly after Mom passed, I opened her tiny file on Eddie’s wrongful death case,” she recalls. “No one can imagine the pain I felt for Mom and for Eddie, and then it hit me that she must have lived in hell from that time forward.” It would be early in 1995 that June would take on the journey her mother had begun on that day she walked into the room in 1973. First there were th...
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    66,72 €

  • Curative Violence
    Eunjung Kim
    In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and to understand how nonmedical and medical cures come with violent effects that are...
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    36,40 €

  • Sociology Looking at Disability
    The purpose of this volume is to explore existing literature, with an eye towards encouraging scholars not to ask 'the same old' questions but to use older writings as a basis for revolutionary and evolutionary thinking. What do the older writings tell us about what questions we should be asking, and what research we should be doing, today? ...
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    239,22 €

  • Hugo’s Hero
    Angie Petit
    On November 13, 2013, young Hugo’s life changed forever. It was the day he received his service dog, Koda. Koda trained for two years at Autism Service Dogs of America in Oregon to be the most amazing service dog ever.Koda helps Hugo every single day to be safe, healthy, and independent. From morning to night, Koda is by Hugo’s side to make sure everything goes okay. Koda even ...
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    13,61 €

  • The Journey of Two Souls
    Linda Darlene Marie Sharpe
    We are all on a journey. At this time, many of us baby boomers are on a journey of caring for our aging parents. Any life journey has its ups and downs. Many children never see this in their future. There are lots of feelings: frustration, hopelessness, anger, and inability to cope.This book is about my mother and our journey, with her becoming the person cared for and I the ca...
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    12,52 €

  • The Journey of Two Souls
    Linda Darlene Marie Sharpe
    We are all on a journey. At this time, many of us baby boomers are on a journey of caring for our aging parents. Any life journey has its ups and downs. Many children never see this in their future. There are lots of feelings: frustration, hopelessness, anger, and inability to cope.This book is about my mother and our journey, with her becoming the person cared for and I the ca...
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    17,15 €

  • 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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    129,32 €

  • Teaching Children with Autism
    Ph.D. C.Psych. Reynolds
    Of the myriad of approaches to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) has the most research support.  It is not perfect, and its imperfection is highlighted by the inadequate training of many if not most of its practitioners.  Autism is a burgeoning condition – in some locations it is estimated to effect one in every seventy-five children –...
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    23,66 €

  • Teaching Children with Autism
    Ph.D. C.Psych. Reynolds
    Of the myriad of approaches to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) has the most research support.  It is not perfect, and its imperfection is highlighted by the inadequate training of many if not most of its practitioners.  Autism is a burgeoning condition – in some locations it is estimated to effect one in every seventy-five children –...
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    32,06 €

  • See Only Love
    Marian S. Taylor / Marian STaylor
    Marian asks us to see the interconnectedness of the Spirit within each and every individual. So often we view ourselves as well as others as separate and different. But no matter what their circumstances, each person has a connection with the Spirit and with one another. God calls us to look for the love within each person and to recognize his love within each individual. This ...
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    15,18 €

  • From a Moth to a Butterfly
    Susan Smith Carey
    This is a true story about the journey of autism and my three sons. My eldest is now 20, the second eldest is 18, and my baby is 17. Back when my children were born, people were not too familiar with autism and some had never heard of it. The title From a Moth to a Butterfly emphasizes that my boys are not what labels them. They should not have to fit into the norm of society, ...
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    12,06 €

  • The Challenged Population
    Abdul H. Gabisi
    Many members of the challenged population are in wheelchairs or use walkers. Some have mild mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, bipolar disorder, cognitive disabilities, spina bifida, dyslexia, a brain injury, or behavioral issues.They make up a significant portion of the population, but not enough people have tried to understand and help them.Abdul H. Gabisi, a caregiv...
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    16,48 €

  • Disability and the Environment in American Literature
    The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of t...
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    114,14 €

  • Some Wisdom and Relationship Crystals
    Krystal L. Kelley-Davis / Krystal LKelley-Davis
    The World Is My OysterThere are many sayings which IHave held fast to throughout my life!Eventually, the world will know them!Whether you think my way will workOr not, my Redeemer is on my side and willLead me straight into a Divine eternity but not before fulfilling all my dreams!I know that none of us are promised tomorrow because,Soon and very soon, our Lord, Jesus Christ, w...
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    46,96 €

  • Rehabilitation Counseling and Emerging Disabilities
    Lynn C. Koch / Lynn CKoch
    Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those increasing in prevalence in recent years. This master’s-level text is the first to eschew traditional disabilities to focus specifically on the unique characteristics and needs of individuals with disabilities such as multiple chemical...
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    117,37 €

  • The economics of disability
    This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy. It also considers issues of specific relevance to children, working-age adults an...
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    55,59 €


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