Disability: social aspects books

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Human Enhancement Debate and Disability, The: New Bodies for a Better Life

Human Enhancement Debate and Disability, The: New Bodies...

Author: Miriam Eilers ,  Professor of Theory and Ethics in the Biosciences Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies, Lubeck, Germany)
ISBN: 9781322107561
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex...  Read More >>

Disability, Providence, and Ethics

Disability, Providence, and Ethics

Author: Hans S Reinders
ISBN: 9781322127170
Format: Electronic book text
$197.87

Human disability raises the hardest questions of human existence and leads directly to the problem of causality...  Read More >>

Fall

Fall

Author: Diogo Mainardi ,  Margaret Jull Costa
ISBN: 9781322131474
Format: Electronic book text
$52.80

THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son...  Read More >>

Rhetorical Touch

Rhetorical Touch

Author: Shannon Walters ,  Professor Thomas W Benson, PhD (Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781322193106
Format: Electronic book text
$158.24

Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through...  Read More >>

Land Use Law and Disability

Land Use Law and Disability

Author: Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse University, New York)
ISBN: 9781322293479
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

Argues that communities need better planning to be safely navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate...  Read More >>

Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with...

Author: Takako Ueto ,  Jackie Downer
ISBN: 9781322228846
Format: Electronic book text
$113.39

Drawing extensively on personal experiences, this important volume looks at sexuality and relationships in the lives...  Read More >>

Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Author: Kevin Dixon ,  Tom Gibbons
ISBN: 9781322457666
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

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Behindert Sein - Behindert Werden

Behindert Sein - Behindert Werden

Author: Hans-Uwe Rosner
ISBN: 9781322494142
Format: Electronic book text
$132.11

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Deaf Gain

Deaf Gain

Author: H-Dirksen L Bauman (Gallaudet University, DC) ,  Joseph J Murray
ISBN: 9781322266831
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of...  Read More >>

Environmental Contexts and Disability

Environmental Contexts and Disability

Author: Barbara Altman ,  Sharon Barnartt
ISBN: 9781322326610
Format: Electronic book text
$329.87

This volume presents papers which address both individual and societal levels of environment in relation to disability...  Read More >>

Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

Assistive Technologies for Physical and Cognitive Disabilities...

Author: Lau Bee Theng (Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781322887340
Format: Electronic book text
$541.20

This book combines worldwide cases on people with physical and cognitive disabilities with the latest applications...  Read More >>

Behinderung - Geschlecht - Soziale Ungleichheit

Behinderung - Geschlecht - Soziale Ungleichheit

Author: Monika Windisch
ISBN: 9781322227030
Format: Electronic book text
$101.90

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Disability Histories

Disability Histories

Author: Susan Burch ,  Michael Rembis
ISBN: 9781322334974
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. This book presents nineteen essays that integrate critical...  Read More >>

Families in Rehabilitation Counseling

Families in Rehabilitation Counseling

Author: Michael Millington, PhD, CRC ,  Irmo Marini, PhD
ISBN: 9781322229539
Format: Electronic book text
$198.00

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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular...

Author: Sharon V. Betcher
ISBN: 9780823253913
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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Disability and Intersecting Statuses

Disability and Intersecting Statuses

Author: Sharon N. Barnartt ,  Barbara Altman
ISBN: 9781783501564
Format: Hardback
$261.95

Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect...  Read More >>

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies

Author: M. Wappett ,  K. Arndt
ISBN: 9781137372024
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular...

Author: Sharon V. Betcher
ISBN: 9780823253906
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Offers philosophical reflection worked through spiritual and religious values, then turned toward somatic practice,...  Read More >>

Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language

Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language

Author: Miako N. P. Rankin
ISBN: 9781563685736
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but in the way those words are conveyed....  Read More >>

Transition to Retirement: A Guide to Inclusive Practice

Transition to Retirement: A Guide to Inclusive Practice...

Author: Roger J. Stancliffe ,  Nathan J. Wilson
ISBN: 9781743323274
Format: Paperback
$25.00

The Transition to Retirement program describes how people with mental or physical disabilities can transition more...  Read More >>

The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century...

Author: David Bolt
ISBN: 9780472119066
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential...  Read More >>

Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments

Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments

Author: John Swain ,  Sally French
ISBN: 9781446258989
Format: Hardback
$382.00

Suitable for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies, this book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous...  Read More >>

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability

Author: George McKay
ISBN: 9780472052097
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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