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  • Curative Violence

    Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea

    by 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 not only symbolic ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • On New Shores

    Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America

    by Carl F. Auerbach, James D. Bachmeier, John W. Berry, Scott Coltrane, Jeffrey Cookston, Roberto M. De Anda, Uwe Gielen, Donald J. Hernandez, Ronit Kahana Kalman, Akira Kanatsu, Eunjung Kim, Michael E. Lamb, Suzanne E. Macartney, Alfredo Mirandé, Erika Y. Niwa, Ross D. Parke, Aris Peguero, Norma Perez-Brena, Joseph H. Pleck, Sara Tocher Rosse, Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, Yanjie Su, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Eric Vega, Carrie Z. Woldenberg, Hiro Yoshikawa, Ruth Chu-Lien Chao, Nancy A. Denton ...
    Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of fathering across various ethnic groups remains limited. Throughout Canada and the United States, the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Mean Little deaf Queer

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    by Terry Galloway ...
    In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for ... Read more

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  • A Dog Called Dez - The Story of how one Amazing Dog Changed his Owner's Life

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    When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning.John had followed a bad path drifting in and out of trouble. He was sent to improvement schools, a young offenders institute and eventually a prison. John was on self-destruct and thought nothing or no one could help him. Then he became the victim of a vicious attack by a notorious ... Read more

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  • Rachel and Her Children

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  • In Mortal Combat

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    by John Toland ...
    A history of the Korean War with soldier's-eye views from both sides, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Rising Sun and Infamy.Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Toland reports on the Korean War in a revolutionary way in this thoroughly researched and riveting book. Toland pored over military archives and was the first person to gain access to previously undisclosed Chinese records, which ... Read more

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  • Miracle Boy Grows Up

    How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity

    by Ben Mattlin ...
    Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage? Mattlin’s life ... Read more

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  • The Family on Beartown Road

    A Memoir of Love and Courage

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  • A Special Hell

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  • Aim High in Creation!

    A One-of-a-Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine

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    An Authentic Glimpse of a North Korea We’ve Never Seen Before, by a Prize-Winning FilmmakerAnna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day apprenticeship there. At the same time it is a fresh-eyed look, beyond stereotypes, at life in that most ... Read more

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