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Disability by Colin Barnes 9780745625089
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as 'victims' of their condition and a 'burden' on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their... -
Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes 9780745634852
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.73The 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,... -
Disability Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) 9780745625096
Booksplease Price: €20.73For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as 'victims' of their condition and a 'burden' on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their... -
Disability Studies Today by Colin Barnes 9780745626574
Booksplease Price: €23.45Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has... -
Disability Studies Today Colin Barnes (University of Leeds) 9780745626567
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €58.73Over recent years there has been an unprecedented upsurge of interest in the general area of disability and disability studies amongst academics and researchers throughout the world. This has... -
Independent futures: Creating user-led disability services in a disabling society Colin Barnes (Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds) 9781861347183
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.72The number of disability related support services controlled and run by disabled people themselves has increased significantly in the UK and internationally over the past forty years. As a result,... -
The New Politics of Disablement by Michael Oliver 9780333945674
Booksplease Price: €47.36Disability 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... -
Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750: A History of Exclusion by Anne Borsay 9780333912553
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €46.40This approachable study explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Using literary, visual, and oral sources to complement documentary... -
Citizenship and Vulnerability: Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement by A. Beckett 9781349543526
Booksplease Price: €55.62Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and... -
Disability on Equal Terms by John Swain
Booksplease Price: €75.02'Disability on Equal Terms is not a Turgid and difficult book despite its accent on complex and challenging themes. It is a lively and important read' - The Skill Journal, June 2009 `[A] collection... -
Economic Management of Marine Living Resources: A Practical Introduction by David Whitmarsh
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92This textbook has two main objectives. Firstly, it outlines the problems associated with the management and conservation of marine living resources, with particular attention given to the twin... -
Parenting and disability: Disabled parents' experiences of raising children Richard Olsen 9781861343642
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €31.27This book reports on the first substantial UK study of parenting, disability and mental health. It examines the views of parents and children in 75 families. Covering a broad spectrum of issues... -
Developments in direct payments Janet Leece (Staffordshire Social Services) 9781861346537
Booksplease Price: €34.00This book charts the change, critically evaluating progress, take-up, inclusion and access to direct payments by different user groups. With contributions from leading campaigners, academics,... -
Working futures?: Disabled people, policy and social inclusion by Alan Roulstone 9781861346261
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.86Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability... -
War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone Maria Berghs 9781138247192
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person? This book describes how an amputee and war-wounded community was created after a decade long conflict (1991-2002) in... -
Understanding Disability Policy by Alan Roulstone 9781847427397
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €83.41In 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... -
Supporting people: Towards a person-centred approach Peter Beresford (Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia and Co-Chair, Shaping Our Lives,) 9781847427625
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.07There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them. For the first... -
Understanding Disability Policy Alan Roulstone (University of Leeds) 9781847427380
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.50In 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... -
Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society by Gerald Hales 9780803979574
Booksplease Price: €64.44This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives of disabled people, and considers how resources... -
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.02Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's... -
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe by Ellen Clifford 9781786998903
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €94.47Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's... -
Music and the Social Model: An Occupational Therapist's Approach to Music with People Labelled as Having Learning Disabilities by Jane Q. Williams
Booksplease Price: €36.01Music has always been an essential part of what it is to be human and yet not everyone has access to the music-based opportunities others take for granted. Motivated by the belief that individuals...