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  • Managing People

    A Practical Guide for Front-line Managers

    by Rosemary Thomson, Eileen Arney, Andrew Thomson ...
    This updated and exciting fourth edition of Managing People: A Practical Guide for Front-Line Managers addresses the growing needs of front-line managers who are not themselves specialists in personnel management but whose roles require them to have these skills. A growing trend over the last two decades has given these managers an increasing amount of responsibility of direct line management, ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Imaging and Imagining Illness

    Becoming Whole in a Broken Body

    Edited by Devan Stahl ...
    Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients' diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness. In this volume, Devan Stahl shares her story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis with the aid of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Although clinically useful, Stahl did not want these images to be the primary way she or anyone else understood her disease or ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Flourishing

    Conversations on Disability

    Edited by Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Erik Parens ...
    Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together--and even thrive together--amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies

    Volume 1

    Edited by Katie Ellis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Mike Kent, Rachel Robertson ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the future of critical ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Extraordinary Bodies

    Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

    by Rosemarie Garland Thomson ...
    Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings of such texts as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • About Us

    Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Based on the historic New York Times series, About Us features intimate, firsthand accounts on what it means, and how it feels, to live with a disability.Boldly claiming a space where people with disabilities tell the stories of their own lives—not other’s stories about them—About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Disability Studies

    Enabling the Humanities

    Edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society.Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda ... Read more

    $78.95 CAD

  • Freak Inheritance

    Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

    Edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Michael Mark Chemers, Analola Santana ...
    The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Re-Presenting Disability

    Activism and Agency in the Museum

    Edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations.This volume of provocative and timely contributions, brings together twenty researchers, practitioners and ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Developing Human Resources

    by Christopher Mabey, Rosemary Thomson ...
    Developing Human Resources is aimed at managers wishing to understand their role in human resource strategy. In a clear, succinct way the authors cover the skills and techniques required to design and implement an effective HRD policy. In addition, they tackle the important tasks of team building, recruitment and change management, as well as the role you play in motivating and appraising your ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability

    Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2

    Edited by Katie Ellis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Mike Kent, Rachel Robertson ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies)identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Staring

    How We Look

    by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ...
    Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, cultural critic Rosemarie Garland-Thomson tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the human stare. In the first book of its kind, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. While borrowing from psychology and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD