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Intellectual Disability in the Twentieth Century: Transnational Perspectives on People, Policy, and Practice Philip Ferguson (Chapman University) 9781447344575
RRP: $167.98$127.81With 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 Jameel Hampton 9781447316428
RRP: $167.98$127.81Created 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
RRP: $168.00$148.26This 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: $58.78$50.69Nearly 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: $178.50$155.00In 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: $178.50$155.00In 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: $56.68$49.81An 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
$189.59To 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
$188.75A 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... -
Dispatches from Disabled Country by Catherine Frazee 9780774868686
RRP: $58.78$50.69Catherine 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: $170.10$137.45This 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... -
Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System by Raquel Velho 9780295751948
RRP: $50.38$44.60Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures"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... -
Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship by Slava Greenberg 9780253064493
RRP: $113.40$103.19While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived experiences) uses a variety of techniques like clay animation, puppets, pixilation, and computer-generated... -
The Price Of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness by Liza Long 9780147516404
RRP: $31.48$19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516404Author Liza LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 224g -
Supplemental Security Income: Elements & Select Analyses of Benefits by Nancy D. Bonilla 9781626183704
RRP: $178.48$117.45The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum income to aged, blind, or disabled persons with limited income and assets. The SSI program is a... -
AbilityOne & the Employment of the Blind & Severely Disabled: Examination of a Federal Program by Kimberly Elson 9781629487892
RRP: $146.98$97.19Federal agencies need to exercise strong oversight to promote effectiveness and efficiency and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse -- especially in a federal procurement program such as this, which is exempt from full and open competition requirements. This... -
Maybugs and Mortality: A Different Perspective on Living and Ageing by Phoebe Caldwell 9781912755219
$40.15Maybugs and Mortality draws a comparison between the shared life-cycles and mortality of the human and maybug. This diverse book is a must read for anyone interested in autism, psychology and human behaviour. The author, Phoebe Caldwell, pioneer of... -
Blind Zen: Martial arts and Zen for the blind and vision impaired by Stefan H Verstappen
RRP: $31.40$26.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986951510Author Stefan H VerstappenFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Woodbridge Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Woodbridge Press Publishing... -
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer by Lana Lin 9780823277711
RRP: $182.70$158.61What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm... -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar 9780822368922
RRP: $178.50$155.00In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept... -
Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea by Eunjung Kim 9780822362777
RRP: $186.90$162.16In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the... -
Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places by Brenda Jo Brueggemann 9780814799673
RRP: $46.18$40.30In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders... -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives by Paul K. Longmore 9780814785638
RRP: $147.00$127.49Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in... -
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops: A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces by Susan Dlouhy 9780804011594
RRP: $31.48$28.16At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a revolutionary alternative. As many push to dismantle... -
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory by Sarah Jaquette Ray 9780803278455
RRP: $172.20$150.49Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the... -
Disability Politics and Care: The Challenge of Direct Funding by Christine Kelly 9780774830102
RRP: $54.58$47.23This engaging book will interest scholars and practitioners working in disability studies, social work, women's and gender studies, sociology, and policy studies, as well as advocates and activists working in the areas of disability and care.Book... -
Thriving and surviving at work: Disabled people's employment strategies Alan Roulstone (University of Leeds) 9781861345226
RRP: $39.88$31.56To date, studies of disabled people and employment have mainly focused on barriers to gaining and maintaining employment. This report breaks new ground in asking: how do those disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work? Written in an... -
Making Valuing People Work: Strategies for change in services for people with learning disabilities Rachel Fyson (Centre for Social Work, University of Nottingham) 9781861345721
RRP: $46.18$36.14Based on the findings of a two and half year research programme undertaken by the Norah Fry Research Centre, this timely report examines the strategic changes that are occurring within learning disability services as a result of the 2001 Valuing People... -
Understanding Disability Policy by Alan Roulstone 9781847427397
RRP: $167.98$128.65In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before... -
Livable Communities for People with Psychiatric Disabilities by Ruben Halvorsen 9781607415374
RRP: $130.18$86.33This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric disabilities. This book proposes necessary changes in public policies regarding housing, transportation... -
DisabilityLand by Dr Alan Brightman 9781590791240
RRP: $37.70$27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590791240Author Dr Alan BrightmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Select Books IncPublisher Select Books IncWeight(grams) 385g -
Disability and Academic Exclusion: Voicing the Student Body by E. R. Weatherup 9781498520010
RRP: $168.00$147.42Disability and Academic Exclusion interrogates obstacles the disabled have encountered in education, from a historical perspective that begins with the denial of literacy to minorities in the colonial era to the later centuries' subsequent intolerance of... -
Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer? Chris Grover 9781447318330
RRP: $65.08$49.85EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to 'independence' and 'self determination'. Recent attempts in many countries to increase the... -
Eliminating Inequities for Women With Disabilities: An Agenda for Health and Wellness by Shari E. Miles-Cohen 9781433822537
RRP: $149.10$123.84Women with disabilities often have difficulty accessing health care services, and the quality of the health care they do receive is often worse than the care received by women without disabilities and men with disabilities. The consequences of these... -
Ethics, Law, and Policy by Dr. Jerome E. Bickenbach 9781412987479
RRP: $168.00$148.26This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores ethical, legal, and policy issues of people with disabilities, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of... -
Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census by Eric C. Nystrom 9781625347633
$69.01The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools for the deaf, leaders in the deaf community, and prominent graduates of these institutions, the lives of... -
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture by Julie Avril Minich 9781478025252
RRP: $44.08$38.58In 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... -
New Research on Assistive Technologies: Uses & Limitations by Deborah Combs 9781633219793
RRP: $335.98$221.26Over the past decade, several studies have shed light on how the Ambient Assistive Technology (AAT) may increase the life expectancy of older adults experiencing cognitive decline who continue to live in their own homes, as well as improve their autonomy... -
Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War by Maria Cristina Galmarini 9781501773778
RRP: $98.70$86.69Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the... -
Crip Genealogies by Mel Y. Chen 9781478016588
RRP: $191.10$166.57The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based...