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Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci 9781478016601
RRP: $112.23$97.43For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumacı draws on... -
Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages by Doug Crandell 9781501763588
RRP: $30.95$26.88In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while... -
Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages by Doug Crandell 9781501762628
RRP: $139.32$120.49In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while... -
Disability and New Media Katie Ellis (Curtin University, Australia) 9780415835923
RRP: $55.46$48.49Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing... -
Disability Research Today: International Perspectives by Tom Shakespeare 9780415748438
RRP: $174.15$151.29Grouped around four central themes - illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations - this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought... -
Disability and Youth Sport by Hayley Fitzgerald 9780415470414
RRP: $174.15$151.29How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability? Has youth sport been challenged in anyway? Have alternative views of sport for disabled people been presented? Examining... -
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation Niklas Altermark (Lund University, Sweden) 9780367431006
RRP: $63.20$55.03What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy,... -
Illusions of Equality - Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950 by Robert Buchanan 9781563685491
RRP: $48.38$47.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563685491Author Robert BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S... -
The Deaf History Reader John Vickrey Van Cleve 9781563683596
RRP: $24.51$23.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563683596Author John Vickrey Van CleveFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S. -
BUG: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution by Christopher Jon Heuer 9781563683572
RRP: $24.51$23.87"What you have in your hands is a bomb. But it is the kind you need to hold on to for dear life, not run away from." --From the Foreword, John Lee Clark Christopher Jon Heuer lost his hearing early, but not before "being able to hear a... -
Gaillard in Deaf America by Henri Gaillard 9781563681226
RRP: $30.96$29.71In 1917, Henri Gaillard journeyed to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been confounded by renowned deaf French teacher Laurent Clerc, thus... -
Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability: Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services by Anthony Hogan 9781472453204
RRP: $174.15$151.29The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them'. It... -
Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer by Dr. Michael S. Jeffress 9781472448200
RRP: $174.15$151.29Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. But what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of... -
Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Oliver Mutanga 9781032381411
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. Disability literature is largely dominated by scholars and studies from the Global North, and these studies are largely informed by Global... -
Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Ann Millett-Gallant 9780367500450
RRP: $51.59$45.23This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology.This book brings these two strands together to provide a... -
Patterns of Residential Care: Sociological Studies in Institutions for Handicapped Children by Roy D. King 9781032568591
RRP: $118.67$103.46Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring for... -
Disabling Policies?: A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability by Gillian Fulcher 9781138951396
RRP: $51.59$42.27First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. The author draws on her experiences, both... -
Normalisation in Practice: Residential Care for Children with a Profound Mental Handicap by Andy Alaszewski 9781138951198
$152.13First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written with the child in mind, it is a sensitive work which explores the administration, strategy, and problems facing carers in children's... -
The Costs of Caring: Families with Disabled Children by Sally Baldwin 9781138951037
$120.74First published in 1985, this book considers the financial consequences of parents and other relatives caring for severely disabled children at home. At the time of publication little reliable information was available on the costs incurred by 'informal... -
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism Michael Gill 9781138247642
RRP: $67.07$58.30Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed... -
Childhood Disability and Family Systems by Michael Ferrari 9781138122826
RRP: $41.27$36.55First published in 1987, this book focuses on childhood disability within the family. It examines the very nature of disability itself, as well as many of the fundamental elements of families. The book was written at a time when the meaning level of... -
Caring for the Mentally Handicapped Child by David Wilkin 9781138124943
RRP: $41.27$36.55First published in 1979, this book concerns itself primarily with the mothers of mentally handicapped children. It discusses the problems of assistance that they may have experienced from their families, the community, or the available services. Whilst... -
Daily Living with a Handicapped Child by Diana M. Millard 9781138124929
RRP: $28.37$24.95First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and... -
Daily Living with a Handicapped Child by Diana M. Millard 9781138124905
$101.39First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and... -
Parents and Young Mentally Handicapped Children: A Review of Research Issues by Helen McConachie 9781138124431
$112.23First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives... -
Disability and Shopping: Customers, Markets and the State by Ieva Eskyte 9781138105775
RRP: $174.15$151.29Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and civil society. It discusses how the interaction between the three stakeholders should be... -
The Child with Spina Bifida by Elizabeth M. Anderson 9781138101548
RRP: $46.43$41.40First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis and incontinence, as well as intellectual impairment. It... -
Integration of Handicapped Children in Society by James Loring 9781138122857
RRP: $174.15$151.29First published in 1975, this book looks at the place of children with handicaps in society, at that time. It argues that in the thirty years previous, a great deal of progress was made in the field of rehabilitation but that the separation between... -
Independence Training for Visually Handicapped Children by Doris Tooze 9781138123359
$143.98First published in 1981, this book was written to help parents and teachers to participate in child-based mobility programmes, covering the needs of visually-handicapped children from pre-school to adulthood. It gives insight into ways in which these... -
Foundations of Forensic Vocational Rehabilitation by Rick Robinson 9780826199270
RRP: $100.61$81.99This is the first fundamental text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitation, a field that is forecast to grow rapidly. Forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants evaluate the vocational and rehabilitation needs of individuals in an... -
Assessment in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling by David R. Strauser 9780826162427
RRP: $96.74$78.60This graduate-level text on rehabilitation and mental health counseling disseminates foundational knowledge of assessment principles and processes with a focus on clinical application. Written by recognized leaders in rehabilitation and mental health, it... -
Disability Across the Developmental Lifespan: An Introduction for the Helping Professions by Julie Smart 9780826139221
RRP: $91.58$74.50This is the only text to examine the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. It provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and... -
Rehabilitation Counseling and Emerging Disabilities: Medical, Psychosocial, and Vocational Aspects by Lynn C. Koch 9780826120687
RRP: $81.26$66.32The first book to focus on non-traditional, emerging disabilities and their implications for rehabilitation practice. Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are either new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known... -
Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States by James Trent 9780199396184
RRP: $59.33$50.58Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the... -
Politics of Blindness Audiobook: From Charity to Parity by Graeme McCreath 9781894694810
RRP: $23.21$15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894694810Author Graeme McCreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Granville Island PublishingPublisher Granville Island PublishingWeight(grams) 274g -
Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking by Deborah Padfield 9781787352650
RRP: $64.50$56.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352650Author Deborah PadfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Marta Russell 9781608467198
RRP: $103.20$68.10Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell's various... -
Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education by Nicole Brown 9781787354999
RRP: $58.05$50.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354999Author Nicole BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 590g -
Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed? by Micky Lee 9781032189802
RRP: $50.30$44.14This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not.Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as... -
Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life: A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate by Simon Foley 9781138628243
RRP: $174.15$151.29One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult's freedom to ensure their own, or society's, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this...