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The Intersection of Fashion and Disability: A Historical Analysis Kate Annett-Hitchcock 9781350143111
RRP: £21.99£19.28The history of the fashion industry has been well written as it relates to people who conform to certain physical norms and cultural stereotypes, whereas the inequality in access to the world of fashion has been largely ignored. Despite this lack of... -
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake 9780306830426
RRP: £25.00£16.38Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A... -
All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront by Steve Jackson
RRP: £25.00£18.20As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Over the course of twenty years and... -
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply... -
The Sound of One Hand: A Buddhist life by Satyadasa 9781915342102
RRP: £11.99£9.70For Satyadasa the Buddhist path has been fulfilling and often joyous, but also full of doubts and obstacles. What does it mean to be a Buddhist in the West in the twenty-first century? And is being born with one hand a curse - or a blessing? "I'm... -
Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway 9780807073315
RRP: £18.99£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073315Author Terry GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *... -
Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Pdd and Nld by Steven E. Gutstein
£28.23Friendship, even for the most able, requires hard work, and the odds are heavily stacked against those with autism spectrum conditions. Designed for younger children, typically between the ages of two and eight, this comprehensive set of enjoyable... -
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce
RRP: £25.95£20.64From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most Deaf people in our own society, the... -
In My Dreams I Dance by Anne Wafula-Strike 9780007354283
RRP: £9.99£7.11They said it couldn't be done. But Anne Wafula achieved many remarkable things in her life. This is her incredible story. Struck down with polio at the age of two and a half, Anne overcame the prejudice rife in her native village in Kenya,... -
Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order by David Bolt
RRP: £34.99£30.85This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
RRP: £20.99£18.37Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality,... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats Emmett de Monterey 9780241995785
RRP: £10.99£7.77AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too... -
Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin
£53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516747Author Graham PullinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 21mm -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
RRP: £18.99£12.48AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too... -
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark Johanna Hurwitz 9780679877059
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679877059Author Johanna HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 99gDimensions(mm)... -
Blind Spot: An Exploration and Education of Blindness by Maud Rowell 9781912489428
RRP: £7.50£4.94In Blind Spot, Maud Rowell challenges readers to think differently about what they may take for granted, carrying them on a whirlwind tour through time and space - from Japanese tube stations to the 18th century museum - to showcase what the world looks... -
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals by Aurora Levins Morales 9781478003090
RRP: £19.99£16.38In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the... -
Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Dan Goodley 9781446280683
£38.07Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and complex field. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach,... -
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... -
Enhancing Self-Esteem: A Self-Esteem Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities by Nick Hagiliassis
RRP: £39.99£38.40Maintaining healthy levels of self-esteem is key to leading a positive and fulfilled life, but for many people with a disability it can be difficult when faced with the additional challenges they encounter. Negative messages, low expectations, reduced... -
Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies by Allison Hitt
£26.54Apologies 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... -
Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire by Akemi Nishida
RRP: £27.99£24.14Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of... -
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance by Heather Talley 9780814784105
RRP: £65.00£56.09Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face-the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think... -
Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments by John Swain
RRP: £44.99£36.59Since it was first published in 1993, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies. The book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters... -
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor 9781620971284
RRP: £18.99£12.93A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new social criticHow much of what we understand of ourselves as "human" depends on our physical and mental abilities... -
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer
RRP: £24.99£21.67Contends 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... -
Exploring Disability Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) 9780745634869
RRP: £32.99£29.56The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability... -
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability by Susan Wendell
RRP: £45.99£40.13The Rejected Body argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and... -
A Practical Guide to Delivering Personalisation: Person-Centred Practice in Health and Social Care by Helen Sanderson
RRP: £29.99£29.49Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised services, professionals and carers need to do more than just hand over financial control: they need to... -
Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges
RRP: £19.99£17.54Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queernessIn queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a... -
University and Chronic Illness: A Survival Guide by Pippa Stacey
£15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916225121Author Pippa StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Daisa & CoPublisher Daisa & Co -
Developmental Coordination Disorder: Hints and Tips for the Activities of Daily Living by Morven F. Ball
RRP: £15.99£15.59Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a term used to describe children who have difficulty with movement and specific aspects of learning, and includes dyspraxia, Asperger Syndrome and associated conditions. This easy-to-read booklet answers... -
For a Pragmatics of the Useless by Erin Manning
RRP: £23.99£20.84What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known... -
Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism Dan Goodley (University of Sheffield, UK) 9780415827225
RRP: £42.99£37.59In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing... -
The New Politics of Disablement by Michael Oliver 9780333945674
£37.16Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature... -
Understanding and Working with People with Learning Disabilities who Self-injure by Pauline Heslop
RRP: £25.99£24.68Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide appropriately individualised care to people with learning disabilities who self-injure. Understanding and Working with People... -
Health by Peter Aggleton
RRP: £36.99£32.53Written in a clear, accessible style, Health introduces students to the valuable contribution sociologists have made to understanding health, illness and disease. In so doing, it challenges the adequacy of biomedical models, contrasting them with... -
Accessible Atonement: Disability, Theology, and the Cross of Christ by David McLachlan
£43.84The atonement-where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament-lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy has prevented meaningful discussion of the cross'... -
The Multisensory Handbook: A guide for children and adults with sensory learning disabilities by Paul Pagliano
RRP: £38.99£34.22Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine Harry Parker 9781788163118
RRP: £9.99£7.11*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means...