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  • Beautiful Eyes

    by Lisa C. Ockun ...
    Beautiful Eyes is a story that takes place in the early 1960s in an apartment complex in Bellerose, Queens, New York. Two next door neighbors, twelve year old Dougie, a boy with a genetic condition called Down Syndrome, and eight year old Lucy become best friends and spend an entire summer together. Sitting on the porch of their apartment complex becomes the highlight of their summer, until one ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

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    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Read more

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  • When the Mind Hears

    A History of the Deaf

    by Harlan Lane ...
    The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice. ... Read more

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  • Count Us In

    Growing Up with Down Syndrome

    by Jason Kingsley, Mitchell Levitz ...
    Award winner: "Hearing about Down syndrome directly from these young men has a good deal more impact than reading any guide from a professional." — BooklistThis book is in Mitchell and Jason's own words. . . . We wanted readers to have a true-to-life sense of their charm, their directness, their humor and warmth, and, yes, their intelligence.At ages nineteen and twenty-two, respectively, Jason ... Read more

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  • Between Myself And Them

    Stories of Disability and Difference

    Edited by Carol Krause ...
    Adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability and difference. This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections, including education and work, family and relationships, health and wellness, self-image and sex. Between Myself and Them is a rich and powerful set of stories that welcome readers into people’s diverse lives. A valuable resource ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Deaf Gain

    Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity

    Edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Joseph J. Murray ...
    Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines ... Read more

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  • Accessible Tourism

    Concepts and Issues

    Edited by Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis, Dr. Simon Darcy ...
    Series Book 45 - Aspects of Tourism
    Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism. In drawing together the contributions to this volume the editors have applied broader social ... Read more

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  • Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship

    A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)

    by Michael J. Prince (Principal Researcher), Yvonne Peters (Principal Researcher) ...
    Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded CommunityUniversity Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians withDisabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-PrincipalResearchers. Of the over 90 CURA grants awarded by SSHRC over the years, it is one of onlya very few that were community led. This ... Read more

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  • Deaf Diaspora

    The Third Wave of Deaf Ministry

    by Bob Ayres ...
    Deaf people have the right to read, study, pray, worship, serve, discuss, and meditate on God's word. Ayres calls for the rediscovery of the spiritual legacy of the Deaf-World as he explores the history of ministry programs and proposes a definitive plan for the future. Deaf ministry patterns over the past forty years are highlighted and a description is given of the New Culture of Deafness ... Read more

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  • Incontinence a Time to Heal with Yoga and Acupressure

    A Six Week Exercise Program for People with Simple Stress Urinary Incontinence

    by Dawn R. Mahowald, Dr. Emmey A. Ripoll ...
    About the Book "These exercises [for Simple Urinary Incontinence] really DO work! I use them regularly and I often remind my friends to do the same." Therese Sherry, Active Retiree, Arkansas Do you, like so many others, suffer from Simple Urinary Incontinence? Do you leak urine when you sneeze, cough, or run? Do you have trouble making it to the bathroom in time? Do you suffer from adult "diaper ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Disability Theory

    by Tobin Anthony Siebers ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all ... Read more

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  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD