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  • The Paralympic Games Explained
    Ian Brittain
    Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the Games’ economic and social impact. ...
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    77,05 €

  • Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
    This book is about how we might think about vulnerability-what it is and how it operates-by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash. ...
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    77,55 €

  • Crip Screens
    Olivia Banner
    In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. Banner shows how institutions use documentary films, data visualization, network graphs, therapy chatbots, virtual patient training programs, and pharmaceutical adve...
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    33,30 €

  • The Playground Model of Disability
    David Bolt
    This book coins the term dis/honesty to define the moments in which dishonesty is invoked by disability, and vice versa. The concept is explored via contemporary British sociocultural representations - namely, jokes, disability sitcom, soap opera, radio interviews, fictionalised observations, and the robotic positionality of AI. ...
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    77,84 €

  • Flipping the Story on Disability and Violence
    Nancy Fitzsimons / Patsie Frawley
    Internationally there is a growing awareness that domestic, family, and sexual violence is a social issue that results from social structures and relational contexts that have positioned women as ’less than’ men. Alongside this has come social action by women that aim to change these structures using an intersectional framing of oppression. ...
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    77,50 €

  • Disability Psychotherapy
    Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities. ...
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    57,09 €

  • Caminhando Rumo Ao Sol
    Simone Fernandes Cardoso
    “Caminhando Rumo ao Sol” é uma obra emocionante e profundamente humana, escrita por Simone Fernandes Cardoso, que compartilha sua jornada como mãe de Renato, um menino autista que transformou sua vida.Entre memórias de fé, perdas dolorosas, descobertas e superações, a autora abre o coração para contar como enfrentou o diagnóstico, o preconceito, a solidão e as lutas diáriasmas ...
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    15,08 €

  • Kith and Kin and the Lived Experience of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
    Anne-Marie Callus
    This book considers the ways in which the lives of persons with intellectual disability are closely interconnected with those of the persons around them. ...
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    77,74 €

  • Disfigurement
    Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement. ...
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    70,81 €

  • Nothing So Broken
    Chris Richards
    In the spring of 1967, Larry Richards was drafted into the Vietnam War. The conflict was intensifying. Casualties were rising. Twelve months of snipers, ambushes, and Agent Orange awaited. He was 21 years old. In the fall of 1990, Steven Bott was finishing up a day at work when the unthinkable happened. Several weeks later he woke up in a hospital bed with no memory, physically...
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    18,99 €

  • Intersectional Colonialities
    This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined - post/de/anti/settler colonialism. ...
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    75,66 €

  • Disabling Migration Controls
    Rebecca Yeo
    Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people’s movement, particularly the original Social Model of Disability, can be usefully extended to focus resistance on the disabling restrictions imposed on people subject to asylum and immigration controls. ...
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    77,76 €

  • Contemporary Philosophy of Autism
    This volume explores interesting and emerging philosophical questions related to autism. It sheds light on the ways in which cultural attitudes about autism have changed in the decade since the editors published their first volume on the philosophy of autism. ...
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    78,70 €

  • Pai Por Que Sou Autista
    Dr. Amizaque Dantas
    Este livro nasceu do desejo profundo de um pai em compreender, amar e lutar pelo seu filhoautista.Pai, Por Que Eu Sou Autista?não é apenas uma obra literária; é um testemunho defé, resiliência e amor incondicional. Ao longo de suas páginas, o leitor será convidado acaminhar ao lado de uma família brasileira que escolheu enfrentar os desafios do Transtornodo Espectro Autista (TE...
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    16,12 €

  • Interface Frictions
    Neta Alexander
    In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can lead to 'digital debility'-the slow and often invisible ways that technologies may harm human bodies. These features all assu...
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    36,93 €

  • Studying Religion and Disability
    Emily O. Gravett
    Studying Religion and Disability introduces students to the many compelling and influential intersections between religion and disability. ...
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    77,69 €

  • Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State
    This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. ...
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    82,53 €

  • The Discourse of Disability
    Vivek Singh
    This book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It challenges the categorization of ’physically-disabled’ produced by way of legal, medical, political, cultural, and literary narratives that comprise an exclusionary discourse. ...
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    83,09 €

  • Redefining Neurodiversity
    Redefining Neurodiversity is a transformative exploration of neurodiversity, redefining how we perceive and engage with cognitive differences. By blending scientific research with personal narratives, this book highlights the lived experiences of neurodivergent individuals - challenging outdated deficit-based models. ...
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    46,76 €

  • Eu, Autista
    Gabriel Garcia
    Eu, Autistaé um desabafo contido por anos, agora transformado em palavras. Um pedido para que se veja além dos estereótipos.Escrito a partir da vivência de uma pessoa autista diagnosticada na vida adulta, este livro mergulha nas camadas do Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) nível 1. Mas, ao invés de definições clínicas, o que se revela aqui são memórias, dores, descobertas e ...
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    11,39 €

  • Na Alegria E Na Dor
    Carlos David Franciscon
    Pare de minimizar o sofrimento com positivismo tóxico e autopiedade, agir dessa maneira só vai piorar a situação de uma doença grave. Hipócrates já dizia: Para os males extremos, só são eficazes os remédios intensos, portanto nesse livro forneço um relato muito sério sobre como enfrentar doenças graves, física e mentalmente, em especial o câncer e todas as suas eventuais conseq...
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    13,00 €

  • Communicating Disability
    This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills to create conversation that gives space to disability and facilitates advancement in inclusion. ...
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    77,44 €

  • Digital Media as Ambient Therapy
    Francis Russell
    Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways mental illness can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for mental health and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality. ...
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    42,76 €

  • Abandonado
    W. C. Ferreira Filho
    Uma história de abandono, fé e a luta silenciosa de um menino contra a dor que não se vê.Nascido de uma relação adolescente marcada pela rejeição e pelo medo, Davi cresceu nos braços da avó, entre o afeto incondicional e o silêncio das ausências. Quando a esclerose múltipla atinge seu corpo ainda menino, inicia-se uma jornada de sofrimento e delicadeza, onde o amor precisa reap...
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    11,96 €

  • The Double Empathy Reader
    Damian Milton
    The Double Empathy Reader brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and practitioners, with first-hand accounts of neurodivergent people, to explore this growing area of study within the neurodiversity movement. This comprehensive handbook explores Damian Milton s double empathy problem : the breakdown in mutual understanding that can...
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    102,28 €

  • Representation of Disability in Children’s Video Games
    Krystina Madej
    Representation of Disability in Children’s Video Games looks at how children’s engagement with characters and stories in video games helps create the perception of disability they have as teens and adults. ...
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    42,74 €

  • Narrating the Many Autisms
    Anna Stenning
    A stirring and meaningful departure from atomized accounts of neurological difference, Narrating the Many Autisms ponders big questions about its topic and finds clarity and meaning in the sense-making practices of autistic individuals and groups. ...
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    82,70 €

  • Mad Studies
    Merrick Daniel Pilling
    Mad Studies: The Basics provides an introductory account of a field that emerged from, and must remain grounded within, community knowledge, activism, and the perspectives of those who have experienced madness and mental health systems. ...
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    34,39 €

  • I’ll Fly Away
    Marc Sapir
    **Publishers Weekly Book Life Editor’s Pick**We all hope to grow old with dignity and some joyfulness. The intimate narratives of 40 extraordinary elders shared in I’ll Fly Away explore both the challenges of aging and the joys and vibrancy that often persist in the twilight years. Poignant observations of the patients and families by a team of health professionals intersecting...
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    12,36 €

  • The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight
    Brian L. Due
    This book is about the everyday life of people with visual impairment or blindness. Using video ethnographic methods and ethnomethodological conversation analysis, it unpacks the practical accomplishments of everyday activities. ...
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    82,67 €