Showing posts with label Disability. Show all posts
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Thursday, 15 December 2016

The Key By Victoria Darkins


The Key
Title : The Key
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Format : ebook
Number of Pages : 194




Jack and Carrie are lost souls Jack is an eminent university lecturer in English Literature who suffers from quadriplegia after a spinal cord injury in his late teens Having convinced himself that he was better off on his own he has closed the door on any romantic entanglements and instead directed all his energy into his work Carrie is trying to unchain herself from a Jack and Carrie are lost souls Jack is an eminent university lecturer in English Literature who suffers from quadriplegia after ...

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Sunday, 7 August 2016

Two Silent Cries By T.N. Tarrant


Two Silent Cries
Title : Two Silent Cries
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Micah Valery is hearing impaired and unable to speak As if that didn t make life interesting enough, he also suffers from a panic disorder that regularly disrupts his life With a wonderful assistance dog named Goldie, however, he manages to live independantly, and comfortably.When something goes wrong with Goldie, he meets Dr Santiago Cruz, a veteran veterinarian with i Micah Valery is hearing impaired and unable to speak As if that didn t make life interesting enough, he also suffers from a panic disorde...

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Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Stricken By Peggy Munson


Stricken
Title : Stricken
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ISBN : 0789008955
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 270




Develop a better understanding of what CFS CFIDS sufferers are going through In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled doctors in Incline Village, Nevada Dismissed by the media as The Yuppie Flu, Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome CFIDS turned out to be neither a faddish disease of the wealthy nor a passing trend, but rather a growing worldwide epidemi Develop a better understanding of what CFS CFIDS sufferers are going through In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled d...

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Friday, 1 July 2016

The Rejected Body By Susan Wendell


The Rejected Body
Title : The Rejected Body
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ISBN : 0415910471
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 206




This study applies a feminist philosophical perspective to theoretical and practical issues of physical disability, such as who should be identified as disabled, whether disability is biomedical, social or both, what causes disability and what could cure it, and whether scientific efforts to eliminate disabling physical conditions are morally justified The book also argue This study applies a feminist philosophical perspective to theoretical and practical issues of physical disability, such as w...

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Friday, 13 March 2015

My Body Politic By Simi Linton


My Body Politic
Title : My Body Politic
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ISBN : 0472032364
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 256




I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self discovery, political imagination, and pluck Wonderful In a dark time, a gift of hope Daniel Berrigan, S.J The struggles, joys, and political awakening of a firecracker of a narrator Linton has succeeded in creating I read My Body Politic with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self d...

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Life Disrupted By Laurie Edwards


Life Disrupted
Title : Life Disrupted
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ISBN : 0802716490
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 272




An inspiring guide to staying in control of your health care, your life, and your dreams despite having chronic illness, by a popular journalist and award winning blogger.Twenty seven year old Laurie Edwards is one of 125 million Americans who have a chronic illness, in her case a rare genetic respiratory disease Because of medical advances in the treatment of serious ch An inspiring guide to staying in control of your health care, your life, and your dreams despite having chronic illness, by a popular jo...

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Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Live for This By Kathryn R. Biel


Live for This
Title : Live for This
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Format : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 252




Samirah Lundgren is living the party girl life While she s trying to forget about her past and put off having a meaningful future, her lifestyle catches up with her, leaving her in a wake of personal destruction Alone and homeless, she encounters Michael Salinger, a man carrying his own baggage in the form of a spinal cord injury, not to mention his former fianc is marr Samirah Lundgren is living the party girl life While she s trying to forget about her past and put off having a meaningful futu...

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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Pushing the Limits By Shelley Tremain


Pushing the Limits
Title : Pushing the Limits
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ISBN : 0889612188
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 246




Challenges notions about who counts as a dyke and subverts stereotypes about the disabled....

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Friday, 3 October 2014

Out of Joint By Mary Felstiner


Out of Joint
Title : Out of Joint
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ISBN : 0803220308
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 222




She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints Can her ankles take the stairs Will her fingers open a jar Peel an orange But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint With wrists and elbows no longer working right, she d discovered one of She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints Can her ankles take the stairs Will her fingers open a jar Peel an orange But it ...

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Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Too Late to Die Young By Harriet McBryde Johnson


Too Late to Die Young
Title : Too Late to Die Young
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ISBN : 0312425716
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 272




A Washington Post Book World RaveHarriet McBryde Johnson s witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends with a bold and unsentimental sermon on pleasure Born with a congenital neuromuscular disease, Johnson has never been able to walk, dress, or bathe without assistance With assistance, she passionately celebrates her life s ri A Washington Post Book World RaveHarriet McBryde Johnson s witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a l...

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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

With Wings By Marsha Saxon


With Wings
Title : With Wings
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ISBN : 0935312617
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 167




Fiction, poetry, and personal accounts explore the strengths and talents of disabled women and girls....

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Thursday, 14 March 2013

Disability Incarcerated By Allison C. Carey


Disability Incarcerated
Title : Disability Incarcerated
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ISBN : 1137404051
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 316




Disability Incarcerated offers an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary scholarship examining the incarceration and segregation of people with disabilities the United States and Canada....

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