Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies by Nick Watson
RRP: $130.63Booksplease Price: $109.14The 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. Adopting an international perspective and... -
Decolonising the Human: Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression by Melissa Steyn 9781776146512
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $41.34Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a... -
How Katie Got a Voice: (And a Cool New Nickname) by M.A. CCC-SLP Patricia L. Mervine 9781426966491
Booksplease Price: $25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426966491Author M.A. CCC-SLP Patricia L. MervineFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives by Paul K. Longmore
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $46.10A collected volume highlighting disability's hidden history in American society Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access... -
Disability and social change: Private lives and public policies Sonali Shah (Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds) 9781847427861
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $46.96Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled... -
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement Ashley Shew 9781324076254
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal". Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery... -
Counselling People with Communication Problems by Peggy Dalton 9780803988958
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $83.83This step-by-step guide is for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author evaluates the forms of counselling that are currently practised alongside direct treatment of the disorders themselves,... -
I'll figure it out: How ableism impacts disabled people's lives by Freaks 9782957226818
RRP: $33.21Booksplease Price: $26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957226818Author FreaksFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Marina CarlosPublisher Marina CarlosWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 9781032229928
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $64.12This edited volume explores blindness as a construct with which we the contributors engage as part of our social existence and/or academic research. Irrespective of eye conditions, or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we have all... -
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II by Susan Burch 9780814798942
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $41.34Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 A reinterpretation of early 20th century Deaf history, with sign language at its center During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf... -
Disability in International Human Rights Law by Gauthier de Beco 9780198824503
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $186.71This book examines what international human rights law has gained from the new elements in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It explores how the CRPD is intricately bound up with other international instruments by... -
Introduction to Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.90Thomas K Holcomb's highly successful textbook on Deaf culture has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. The changes reflect those in the field and include three new chapters focusing on the impact of technology on the Deaf experience,... -
People with intellectual disabilities: Towards a good life? by Kelley Johnson 9781847420688
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $46.96What does it mean to live a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? What happens when we make a good life the centre of our consideration of people with intellectual disabilities? These questions... -
Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies by Allison Hitt
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $52.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814141540Author Allison Harper HittFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of... -
Other-person-ness and the Person with Profound Disabilities by Pia Matthews 9781032261560
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $69.01Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a 'them' and... -
Karen: A True Story Told by Her Mother by Marie Killilea 9781504053303
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $38.59Winner of the Christopher Award: This bestseller tells the inspirational true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and the mother who wouldn't give up on her. In 1940, when Karen Killilea was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy,... -
Damned for Their Difference by Jan Branson 9781563681219
Booksplease Price: $76.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563681219Author Jan BransonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S. -
Disability is not Inability: A Quest for Inclusion and Participation of People with Disability in Society by James Nathaniel Amanze 9789996060809
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $99.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789996060809Author James Nathaniel AmanzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Mzuni PressPublisher Mzuni PressWeight(grams) 739g -
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
RRP: $38.01Booksplease Price: $32.97For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the... -
Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks by Jordynn Jack
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $35.74The reasons behind the increase in autism diagnoses have become hotly contested in the media as well as within the medical, scholarly, and autistic communities. Jordynn Jack suggests the proliferating number of discussions point to autism as a rhetorical... -
Letters with Smokie: Blindness and More-than-Human Relations by Rod Michalko 9781772840339
Booksplease Price: $39.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772840339Author Rod MichalkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 400g -
Maybugs and Mortality: A Different Perspective on Living and Ageing by Phoebe Caldwell 9781912755219
Booksplease Price: $39.55Maybugs 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... -
Disability and Mothering: Liminal Spaces of Embodied Knowledge by Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson 9780815629054
Booksplease Price: $55.01Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word "liminal" calls attention to the book's focus... -
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal by Christopher Eagle 9780367867782
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $73.91Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is... -
The Price Of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness by Liza Long 9780147516404
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies 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 -
Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children by Laura Mauldin
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.04A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter's school is plummeting: "The majority of parents want their kids to talk." Some parents, however, feel very differently,... -
Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On by Annmaree Watharow 9781915271426
Booksplease Price: $41.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915271426Author Annmaree WatharowFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Lived Places PublishingPublisher Lived Places PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time by Emma Sheppard 9781032532738
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $69.01This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of 'crip time'.Exploring experiences of pain and fatigue for people who... -
Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare by Todd Carmody 9781478018070
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.04Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of... -
How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties Kjeld Hogsbro 9781032087665
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $69.01This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities.It... -
Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 9781032553979
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $64.12Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day. Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new... -
Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide David Bolt (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 9781138103276
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $67.39Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that... -
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement by Steven K Kapp 9781013274107
RRP: $91.55Booksplease Price: $76.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274107Author Steven K KappFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)... -
A Single Door: Social Work with the Families of Disabled Children by Caroline Glendinning
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $72.29First published in 1986, this study explores the increased public concern with policies of 'community care' and their effects on informal carers, at that time. It looks at the widespread evidence that one particular group of informal carers- parents... -
Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities by 9780367539030
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $69.01This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This... -
They Have No Idea: Love and Desperation in Mothering a Child with Severe Autism and Epilepsy by Barbara Morrisey 9781039149557
RRP: $28.26Booksplease Price: $20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039149557Author Barbara MorriseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary by Chad E. Foster 9781400222643
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $23.85For anyone seeking to live life to its fullest potential, Blind Ambition is an eye-opening account of a tech industry executive who overcame fear and hopelessness to turn his blindness disability into a powerful, competitive strength.While most people... -
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Lois Bragg 9780814798539
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $48.91An 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... -
The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece by Martha L. Rose 9780472035731
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $45.71Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our... -
Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb 9780199777549
RRP: $134.55Booksplease Price: $96.21Introduction to American Deaf Culture is the only comprehensive textbook that provides a broad, yet in-depth, exploration of how Deaf people are best understood from a cultural perspective, with coverage of topics such as how culture is defined, how the...