Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it by Pete Wharmby
RRP: £16.99£9.50It's time to remake the world - the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives. The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, bright flashing lights,... -
brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe 9781805303060
RRP: £10.99£7.32THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities and struggling to accept that he had Down's... -
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin 9780593418376
RRP: £18.00£11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593418376Author Temple GrandinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Normal Schmormal: My occasionally helpful guide to parenting kids with special needs by Ashley Blaker
RRP: £16.99£11.47The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. 'We had such a... -
The Secrets of My Spectrum by Callum Knight 9781916258600
£8.96Part memoir and part guidebook to gaining a deeper understanding, The Secrets of My Spectrum offers a one-of-a-kind insight into the Autism Spectrum -written by a sixteen-year-old.For years, Callum struggled to navigate the world he lived in and meet... -
The Comic Guide to Parenting a PDA Child: An Illustrated Book about Pathological Demand Avoidance by Eliza Fricker
RRP: £12.99£12.40Eliza Fricker gets it. Describing her perfectly imperfect experience of raising a PDA child, with societal judgements and internal pressures, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, resentful and alone. This book's comedic illustrations explain these challenging... -
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the... -
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
RRP: £13.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984858979Author Emily LadauFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness by Stanley Coren
RRP: £15.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744689Author Stanley CorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby 9780008610036
RRP: £8.99£6.02One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked... -
Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
RRP: £20.00£14.69**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does?... -
Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness: A guide to owning it and loving it by Samantha Baines
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Highly informative, told with warmth and humour' - Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt'Heartfelt and hilarious - deaf awareness beautifully told through Sam's unique voice' - Laura Whitmore'This book is important' - Mark Atkinson, CEO of the Royal... -
Made Possible: Stories of success by people with learning disabilities - in their own words by Saba Salman
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A bold wake-up call for those who doubt what people with learning disabilities can do' - Sally Phillips'A call to arms to confront continued discrimination' - Sir Norman Lamb'A gem of an anthology... this collection will contribute to our growing... -
The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman by Lucy Webster 9780241612767
RRP: £16.99£10.39Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules?This powerful, honest, hilarious and furious memoir from... -
Different Bodies: Deconstructing normality by Nick Totton 9781915220318
RRP: £21.99£20.59'A revolution is underway in how we think about human variation. It has the potential to transform the social and political landscape, sweeping away walls and fences that stop so many people from fully participating. Psychotherapy should be in the... -
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman 9780745348667
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly' - Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes Neurodiversity is on the rise... -
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' - Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people,... -
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies by Nick Watson 9781032376189
RRP: £42.99£37.59This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today... -
Living with Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults with Developmental Dyspraxia - by Victoria Biggs
RRP: £13.99£13.47This book provides a diverse range of basic information and practical advice for adults with dyspraxia. Colley is able to describe in detail the impact that coordination and motor learning difficulties can have on many everyday activities, including... -
The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Kranowitz
RRP: £20.00£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399532719Author Carol Stock KranowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)... -
Developing Play and Drama in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders by Dave Sherratt
RRP: £36.99£32.53Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with children with autistic spectrum disorders. This book considers the wide-ranging benefits of developing play and... -
The Minor Gesture by Erin Manning
RRP: £23.99£20.41In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than... -
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
RRP: £9.99£6.64In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public... -
Disability and the Church – A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion by Lamar Hardwick
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830841608Author Lamar HardwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 248gDimensions(mm)... -
Making an Entrance: Dancing Out the Message Behind Inclusive Dance by Adam Benjamin
RRP: £35.99£31.69This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and... -
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
RRP: £20.95£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528915Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw by Eddie Ndopu 9781399803786
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Uncompromising... A masterful writer poised for even more great success' - Forest Whitaker, Academy award-winning actorA memoir, penned with one good finger, about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful.Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was... -
Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities: A Handbook for Those who Provide Support, 2nd Edition by Tony Osgood 9781911028956
£40.33Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities addresses the need for an up-to-date handbook which, while well-grounded in research and latest clinical practice, is essentially non-academic and accessible for staff... -
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
RRP: £11.99£7.86A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as... -
Beautiful: A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage by Katie Piper
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.But then she... -
Working with People with Learning Disabilities: Theory and Practice by David Thomas
RRP: £24.99£23.30A comprehensive introduction to working with people with learning disabilities, this guide provides the theoretical understanding needed to inform good practice and to help improve the quality of life of people within this group. Using accessible... -
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health' Dazed Mental health is a political issue, but we often discuss it as a personal one. How is the current mental health crisis connected to capitalism, racism and... -
The Spirit of Camphill: Birth of a Movement by Karl Konig 9781782504979
RRP: £14.99£11.67Fleeing from Nazi Europe in the late 1930s, Austrian-born Karl Koenig and his colleagues founded the first Camphill community, for children with special needs, outside Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. The seven essays by Koenig in this book explain the... -
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
RRP: £15.99£11.61A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve... -
PsychoPolitics by Peter Sedgwick 9780745347226
RRP: £19.99£13.35'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the most significant and credible critiques of the... -
Under The Eye Of The Clock by Christopher Nolan
RRP: £9.99£5.96A powerful and moving autobiography from a gifted writer who has been compared to Joyce and Yeats.'A book of sheer wonder. As an author he competes as an equal with the ablest of them' DAILY EXPRESSThis is the story of Joseph Meehan, born cruelly... -
Disability Studies: A Student's Guide by Colin Cameron
RRP: £36.99£30.39This textbook brings together a wide range of expert voices from the field of disability studies and the disabled people's movement to tackle the essential topics relevant to this area of study. From the outset disability is discussed from a social model... -
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction by Alice Hall 9781350180154
RRP: £19.99£17.61Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different... -
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899422Author Alice WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc