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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies eBook Series

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  • Visual Discourses of Disability

    Interpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective

    by Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee Yeo ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book demonstrates how the visual elements within news images of disability orchestrate and evoke social meanings about disability and disabled persons. It creates a Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework to delineate what and how the visualization of disability communicates ideas and attitudes, and how elements in an image are configured to frame the perspective of disability.These ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Critical Suicidology

    Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

    Edited by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, Jonathan Morris ...
    Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to suicide research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it?In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has become too focused on the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Psychology

    Research and Applications

    by John W. Berry, Ype H. Poortinga, Seger M. Breugelmans, Athanasios Chasiotis, David L. Sam ...
    Cross-Cultural Psychology is a leading textbook offering senior undergraduate and graduate students a thorough and balanced overview of the whole field of cross-cultural psychology. The team of internationally acclaimed authors present the latest empirical research, theory, methodology and applications from around the world. They discuss all domains of behavior (including development, social ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • The Question of Access

    Disability, Space, Meaning

    by Tanya Titchkosky ...
    Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape. But many methods of addressing these issues — installing signs, ramps, and accessible washrooms — frame disability only as a problem to be ‘fixed.’ The Question of Access investigates the social meanings of access in contemporary university life from the perspective of Cultural Disability Studies ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy

    by John McLeod ...
    The need to show how and why counselling works has led to an explosion of research activity, and a growing focus on research in counselling and psychotherapy teaching and practice. Yet this book, even now in its second edition, stands alone in addressing qualitative research in therapy.Leading expert John McLeod helps readers through each stage of the research process, explaining techniques for ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

    A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts

    by Prof. Jim Cummins ...
    Series Book 19 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    A ground-breaking and topical commentary from a leading thinker within the field of multilingual education.Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Disability and Discourse Analysis

    by Jan Grue ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. Conversely, discourse analysts have traditionally been concerned with social issues and fields in which ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Cognition

    An Integrated Introduction

    by Ngaire Donaghue, Iain Walker, Martha Augoustinos ...
    The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology. A foundational chapter presenting an account of these perspectives is then followed by topic-based chapters from the point of view of each perspective in turn, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens

    Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Effective Early Childhood Education

    Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Lotty Eldering, Paul P.M. Leseman ...
    Series series Studies in Education and Culture
    This work examines international strategies of early education and literacy for disadvantaged children, from a cross-cultural perspective. It brings together theoretical insights, the results of empirical research, and experiences with early educational intervention programmes. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Attitudes and Attitude Change

    Edited by William D. Crano, Radmila Prislin ...
    Series series Frontiers of Social Psychology
    This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provide an excellent introduction for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The book’s chapters cover all of the most critical features of attitude measurement, attitude development, and attitude change. Implicit and explicit approaches to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD