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Book cover for Adam J. Hildebrand: One Person at a Time

One Person at a Time : Citizen Advocacy for People with Disabilities

Adam J. Hildebrand
Paperback - $38.95

Citizen advocacy is a community enterprise that arranges and supports relationships between valued, competent individual citizens and individiuals who are socially devalued in our culture usually because of a physical or mental impairment. Citizen ad ...

Book cover for Polly Hincks: Yes! We Made It! The Story of New Horizons

Yes! We Made It! The Story of New Horizons : How People with Severe Disabilities in a Chronic Care Hospital Worked Their Way to Independence

Polly Hincks
Paperback - $30.95



Book cover for Beth Hutchison: Gendering Disability

Gendering Disability

Beth Hutchison
Paperback - $51.95

Disability and gender, terms that have previously seemed so clear-cut, are becoming increasingly complex in light of new politics and scholarship. These words now suggest complicated sets of practices and ways of being. Contributors to this innovativ ...

Book cover for Benedicte Ingstad: Disability in Local and Global Worlds

Disability in Local and Global Worlds

Benedicte Ingstad
Paperback - $47.95

The lives of many disabled people in Europe and North America have improved over the past two decades through innovative technologies and the efforts of the disability rights movement. These changes have been spreading to other societies around the g ...

Book cover for Kelley Johnson: Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities

Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities : In and Out of Institutions

Kelley Johnson
Paperback - $74.95

In and Out of Institutions is an international collaboration between qualitative researchers and former institutional residents with intellectual disabilities that presents a comprehensive overview of personal and professional perspectives on deinsti ...

Book cover for Artomis Joukowsky: Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar : New Horizons in Disability Sports

Artomis Joukowsky
Hardcover - $49.95

"Raising the Bar" aims to educate, pay homage, and raise awareness of the heroes and role models in the international community of disability sports. These first-time portraits and interviews introduce athletes who triumph by sheer grit and determina ...

Book cover for Harlan Lane: When the Mind Hears

When the Mind Hears : A History of the Deaf

Harlan Lane
Paperback - $48.95

The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

Book cover for Harlan L. Lane: The Mask of Benevolence

The Mask of Benevolence : Disabling the Deaf Community

Harlan L. Lane
Paperback - $20.95

An indictment of the mistreatment of the deaf community by a hearing establishment that resists understanding and awareness.

Book cover for Simi Linton: Claiming Disability

Claiming Disability

Simi Linton
Paperback - $46.95

From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical ...

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