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Book of Disquiet: Dispatches From the Disability Frontlines by Carter Hammett 9780973726428
RRP: £15.00£12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973726428Author Carter HammettFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Wordgarden PressPublisher Wordgarden PressWeight(grams) 154g -
Getting It: Persuading Organizations and Individuals to Be More Comfortable with People with Disabilities by Melissa Marshall 9780595212538
RRP: £10.99£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595212538Author Melissa MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 249g -
Yes! We Made It! The Story of New Horizons: How People with Severe Disabilities in a Chronic Care Hospital Worked Their Way to Independence by Polly Hincks 9780595153572
RRP: £12.99£10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153572Author Polly HincksFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 349g -
dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by Mimi Khúc 9781478025672
RRP: £23.99£20.41In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of... -
A Research Agenda for Disability and Technology by Jane Seale 9781800888630
£111.61Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative... -
Heavy Metal and Disability: Crips, Crowds, and Cacophonies by Jasmine Hazel Shadrack 9781789389456
RRP: £99.95£87.39The relationship between metal and disability is distinctive. Persisting across metal’s sub-genres is a preoccupation with exploring and questioning the boundary that divides the body that has agency from the body that has none. This boundary is one that... -
Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life by Margaret Price 9781478026136
RRP: £92.00£78.82In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that... -
Inclusive Localities: Perspectives on Local Social Policies and Practices by Prof. Dr. Sabine Meier 9783847430179
RRP: £58.00£47.06The contributions in this book shed critical light on the shaping, negotiation, and creation of inclusive conditions of local authorities and localities. The authors analyse policy programs and reflect on their inclusive or exclusive effects in European... -
dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by Mimi Khúc 9781478020936
RRP: £94.00£80.50In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of... -
Hacking the Underground by Raquel Velho 9780295751931
RRP: £94.00£80.50"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route... -
Disability and Social Policy in Ireland by Suzanne Quin 9781900621939
RRP: £21.00£19.73This publication covers all major aspects of social policy in relation to disability in contemporary Ireland. New approaches to policy making, influenced by concepts of rights, partnership and integration, have led to major changes in service provision... -
Child Language Disability Vol.2: Semantic and Pragmatic Difficulties by Kay Mogford-Bevan 9781853591273
RRP: £17.95£15.77Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework and suitable methods for assessment and remediation. Work in tackling these problems is at an early... -
Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country by Alissa Quart 9781642599657
RRP: £21.99£14.33A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project,... -
From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability by Pia Justesen 9781641601580
RRP: £16.95£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641601580Author Pia JustesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 0g -
Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media by Whitney Hardin 9781793648310
RRP: £85.00£77.95Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives) can shape and shift the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental... -
Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking by Deborah Padfield 9781787352643
RRP: £30.00£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352643Author Deborah PadfieldFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 868g -
Transition to Retirement: A Guide to Inclusive Practice by Roger J. Stancliffe 9781743323274
RRP: £16.99£13.81The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive retirement lifestyle through volunteering and participating in mainstream community groups. Members of these... -
Experiencing Disability Stigma in Ghana: Impact on Individuals and Caregivers by Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy 9781666905809
RRP: £73.00£66.12Experiencing Disability Stigma in Ghana: Impact on Individuals and Caregivers explores the roots of disability stigma and discrimination in Ghana as well as the social and economic impact of discrimination on individuals with disabilities and their... -
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times by Peter Catapano 9781631495854
RRP: £19.99£18.30Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are-not as others perceive them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with... -
Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball by Melvin Juette 9781592134748
RRP: £55.00£46.79The true story of a Chicago gang member who was shot and paralyzed and became a world-class wheelchair athleteBook InformationISBN 9781592134748Author Melvin JuetteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple... -
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-Moshe 9781517904425
RRP: £108.00£91.83This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the... -
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds 9781517902650
RRP: £82.00£70.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517902650Author Joel Michael ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota... -
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges 9781517914080
RRP: £90.00£76.75Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a... -
Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform by David Pettinicchio 9781503600874
RRP: £108.00£91.83Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard. In... -
Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality by Teresa Milbrodt 9781496838919
£110.92Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can... -
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer 9781479826315
£89.88Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements... -
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture by Julie Avril Minich 9781478020479
RRP: £92.00£78.82In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior... -
Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne 9781478015086
RRP: £92.00£78.82In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which... -
Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice by Jan Walmsley 9781447344575
RRP: £79.99£60.86With contributions from distinguished authors in 14 countries across 5 continents, this book provides a unique transnational perspective on intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Each chapter outlines different policies and practices, and... -
Disability and the Welfare State in Britain: Changes in Perception and Policy 1948-79 by Jameel Hampton 9781447316428
RRP: £79.99£60.86Created during and after the Second World War, the British Welfare State seemed to promise welfare for all, but, in its original form, excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this... -
Employment and Work by Linda L. Barrington 9781412992923
£80.44This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to... -
Employment and Disability: Issues, Innovations, and Opportunities by Susanne M. Bruyere 9780913447185
RRP: £29.99£25.99Nearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities continue to be significantly underrepresented in the American Labor force. This loss of talent to U.S. organizations and restriction of... -
Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America by Jennifer Terry 9780822369684
RRP: £92.00£78.42In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms... -
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare 9780822362760
RRP: £92.00£78.42In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some... -
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Lois Bragg 9780814798539
RRP: £28.99£24.86An essential anthology of Deaf perspectives To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited. Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do... -
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Lois Bragg 9780814798522
£90.28To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited. Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do. Editor Lois Bragg asserts that English is for... -
Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton 9780814751336
£89.88A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere... -
Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body by Lennard J. Davis 9780814719497
£89.88With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the... -
Dispatches from Disabled Country by Catherine Frazee 9780774868686
RRP: £29.99£25.99Catherine Frazee wants her readers to know that there is far more to disability than most people think or assume. There is much not to like about disability, such as the ways it diminishes status and opportunity, and the ways it requires medical... -
Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley by Ravi Malhotra 9780774865760
RRP: £81.00£70.21This compelling account will find an audience among labour and leftist historians, advocates for disability rights, and general readers interested in disability and activist history.Book InformationISBN 9780774865760Author Ravi MalhotraFormat...