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  • Crip Authorship

    Disability as Method

    Edited by Mara Mills, Rebecca Sanchez ...
    2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing.Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened lead... ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 39

    Disability and the History of Science

    Edited by Jaipreet Virdi, Mara Mills, Sarah F. Rose ...
    Series Book 39 - Osiris
    Presents a powerful new vision of the history of science through the lens of disability studies.Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science, as in the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Testing Hearing

    The Making of Modern Aurality

    Edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui ...
    Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

    by Judith Heumann ...
    Winner, 2026 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, given by the British Sociological AssociationA chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemicHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • And No Birds Sing

    by Pauline Leader ...
    Originally published in 1931, this memoir offers an unflinching look at the life of a deaf woman struggling with poverty and isolation in the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader recounts her experience growing up as the daughter of Jewish immigrants in a small New England mill town. Born in 1908, Leader was exposed to frequent verbal and physical ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    by Philip Roth ...
    Series Book 3 - American Trilogy
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  • Reflexivity and Qualitative Research

    by Jane Gilgun ...
    Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to ... Read more

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  • Building Access

    Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

    by Aimi Hamraie ...
    “All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs, and flexible kitchens, Universal Design purported to create a built environment for ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Ghost Writer

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    by Philip Roth ...
    FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale—is superb.” —The Washington PostThe Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory ... Read more

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  • The Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Literacy

    A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

    by Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco ...
    Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of ... Read more

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  • Sleepless Nights

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
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