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“peter gibilisco”

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  • The Politics of Disability

    A Need for a Just Society Inclusive of People with Disabilities

    by Peter Gibilisco ...
    We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that "there is no alternative" to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • A Wolf at the Table

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Augusten Burroughs ...
    "As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"When Augusten ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    "[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery."-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris ComplexIn 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer’s office seeking help for her depression and a persistent memory problem: she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Unmaking of Man

    Disability and the Holocaust

    by Simon Duffy ...
    The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction at a very early stage. Doctors argued that people with disabilities lived lives not worth ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Solitary Courage

    Mona Winberg and the Triumph over Disability

    by Mona Winberg ...
    Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.Mona Winberg became a pioneer of independent living, and emerged a leading advocate for citizens with ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Active Support

    Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities

    by Jim Mansell, Julie Beadle-Brown ...
    Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe disabilities, and is of growing interest to those responsible for providing support and services. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    Edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey ...
    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Managing with Asperger Syndrome

    by Malcolm Johnson ...
    This insider account provides much-needed information about a subject of increasing interest: people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) working in management positions. Johnson draws on his personal experiences to explain how elements such as the working environment, managing staff, group dynamics and office politics can have a profound influence on work performance. He provides useful examples and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Law and Childhood Studies

    Current Legal Issues Volume 14

    Edited by Michael Freeman ...
    Series series Current Legal Issues
    Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Other Welfare

    Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy

    by Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry DeWitt ...
    The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV

    The Progressive Era, 1893-1914

    by John D. Buenker ...
    Series Book 4 - History of Wisconsin
    Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy."The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Personalisation in Practice

    Supporting Young People with Disabilities through the Transition to Adulthood

    by Helen Sanderson, Suzie Franklin ...
    This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred planning tools. Jennie's story illustrates the importance of quality person-centred reviews, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD