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Waiting for Home: The Richard Prangley Story
ISBN: 9780802842114 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalist John Schneider chronicles the compelling true story of Richard Prangley, a man who was unjustly institutionalized for fifteen years yet has managed to become a productive citizen and an effective advocate for the development ally disabled.d
Journalist John Schneider chronicles the compelling true story of Richard Prangley, a man who was unjustly institutionalized for fifteen years yet has...
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80,62 zł |
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Deaf Like Me
ISBN: 9780930323110 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deaf Like Me is the moving account of parents coming to terms with their baby girl's profound deafness. The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children are expressed here with power and simplicity. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley as a teenager reflects upon being deaf, her education, her struggle to communicate, and the discovery that she was the focus of her father's and uncle's book. At once moving and inspiring, Deaf Like Me is must reading for every parent, relative, and friend of deaf children everywhere.
Deaf Like Me is the moving account of parents coming to terms with their baby girl's profound deafness. The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing p...
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70,98 zł |
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Deaf Peddler
ISBN: 9781563680960 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having panhandled as a "deaf" man for 11 years, the author has written a book exposing all the ins and outs of his life exploiting a "disability" to earn hundreds of dollars a day and sheds light on the cultural phenomenon of deaf peddling that thrives today. Illustrations.
Having panhandled as a "deaf" man for 11 years, the author has written a book exposing all the ins and outs of his life exploiting a "disability" to e...
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79,17 zł |
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Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer
ISBN: 9781563682735 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that characterized an American legend of that century. In his prime, Booth stood 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighed in at 210 pounds, and wore a long, full beard. He taught school in Hartford, CT, then followed his wife-to-be Mary Ann Walworth west to Anamosa, Iowa, where in 1840, he built the area s first frame house. He pulled up stakes nine years later to travel the Overland Trail on his way to join the California Gold Rush. After he returned to Iowa in 1854, he became the... Edmund Booth was born in 1810 and died in 1905, and during the 94 years of his life, he epitomized virtually everything that characterized an Ameri... |
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152,88 zł |
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Pilgrimage to Grace
ISBN: 9781517197469 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I needed to remove the heavy bolts and guards that blocked the memories, until all that remained was this - my actual thoughts of how I experienced the storm. This is my personal truth. Hannelie Viviers was diagnosed with bipolar depression in 1998 after a manic episode. She had been a homemaker with two toddlers. At the institution to which she was admitted she made a vow to find work. This resulted after many setbacks in her qualifying as an accountant. But the massive depression spider was never far away and always ready with its venom. Five suicide attempts followed as she tumbled down...
I needed to remove the heavy bolts and guards that blocked the memories, until all that remained was this - my actual thoughts of how I experienced th...
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46,44 zł |
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Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
ISBN: 9780747585657 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in Whitehall - but what of the others? With rare perception, he tells of their lives: the speechwriter unable to make eye contact, the courier who gets upset if anyone touches his bicycle, the suicidal depressive, and the computer engineer who communicates difficult emotions through the use of hand puppets.
When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received...
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81,85 zł |
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As Life Goes On: Lessons One Doesn't Want to Have to Learn
ISBN: 9781943483846 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One phone call hurt Rosalie so much. Bob's boss told her that her brother has to retire because he wasn't as reliable as he used to be, and the company didn't want to be liable for any accident caused by his disability. She couldn't believe that the company whom Bob served for forty years treated him like a thing-he was dispensable. Nonetheless, she agreed that her brother has to retire. Robert "Bob" Contino was diagnosed with a mild case of "schizophrenia," or as Dad used to say, "A tip of the iceberg. A tip," as a young man, and Rosalie knew that taking care of her sixty-one-year-old...
One phone call hurt Rosalie so much. Bob's boss told her that her brother has to retire because he wasn't as reliable as he used to be, and the compan...
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43,53 zł |
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As Life Goes On: Lessons One Doesn't Want to Have to Learn
ISBN: 9781943483419 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One phone call hurt Rosalie so much. Bob's boss told her that her brother has to retire because he wasn't as reliable as he used to be, and the company didn't want to be liable for any accident caused by his disability. She couldn't believe that the company whom Bob served for forty years treated him like a thing-he was dispensable. Nonetheless, she agreed that her brother has to retire. Robert "Bob" Contino was diagnosed with a mild case of "schizophrenia," or as Dad used to say, "A tip of the iceberg. A tip," as a young man, and Rosalie knew that taking care of her sixty-one-year-old...
One phone call hurt Rosalie so much. Bob's boss told her that her brother has to retire because he wasn't as reliable as he used to be, and the compan...
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108,90 zł |
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Roots and Fences: A Generational Story of Friends, Family and Disability
ISBN: 9781478707103 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Jackie, Chuck, Jonathon, and Jamee-four people intricately linked by the common thread of disability. Roots and Fences tells of their life experiences, as well as their friends and families, from a phenomenological perspective. It's a compelling collection that exposes the reality of life for those with intellectual disabilities and the people who love them. Through these connective stories spanning over 50 years, you will laugh, cry, share in the adventures, meet the families, and perhaps even change your views about those who are labeled "disabled." "As I read, I felt I was reading...
Meet Jackie, Chuck, Jonathon, and Jamee-four people intricately linked by the common thread of disability. Roots and Fences tells of their life experi...
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77,85 zł |
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Why Not Me?: Choosing To Be Positive In The Face Of Adversity
ISBN: 9781943526932 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When life doesn’t go as planned…Make new plans! When life doesn’t go as planned…Make new plans! |
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65,32 zł |
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High School Dropout to Harvard: My Life with Dyslexia
ISBN: 9780615579115 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up, John always felt like he was smart, but his grades were terrible; he failed the first grade, and started feeling like he wasn't as good as the other kids. After years of constantly feeling beaten down by the school system, he gave up and stopped caring, eventually he dropped out of high school. Before he dropped out, he signed up for a cooking class, and his teacher recommended him for a kitchen job at a local hotel. While there, he saw an ice sculptor carving a block of ice and was completely mesmerized; the sculptor took John under his wing and started teaching him the art....
Growing up, John always felt like he was smart, but his grades were terrible; he failed the first grade, and started feeling like he wasn't as good as...
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91,28 zł |
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Whose Report Will You Believe? Diagnosed With Kidney Failure.
ISBN: 9781530899074 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,63 zł |
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No Dad, It Does Not Involve a Hippopotamus!
ISBN: 9781483902111 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a dad of a child with special needs, the book talks about the joys, hopes, dreams, concerns, and issues of raising a child with special needs. The author talks about his and his family's life, and how his son's special needs have changed - often for the positive - their lives. The book is organized by topics, and is written as a series of articles and short stories that explain these topics and their impact on the family, in an often uplifting and poigniant way as the child moves from childhood to adulthood. Topics include a number of different issues including areas such as being...
Written by a dad of a child with special needs, the book talks about the joys, hopes, dreams, concerns, and issues of raising a child with special nee...
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45,71 zł |
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All Because of Henry: My Story of Struggle and Triumph with Two Autistic Children and the Dogs That Unlocked Their World
ISBN: 9781845027070 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Picks up the lead from the international bestseller, A Friend Like Henry, which traced the childhood journey of Dale, the Gardner family and, of course, their amazing golden retriever Henry, who has finally helped Dale to communicate with the world. In this book, we meet with Dale's again, aged seventeen, to find out where his story goes next.
Picks up the lead from the international bestseller, A Friend Like Henry, which traced the childhood journey of Dale, the Gardner family and, of cours...
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54,55 zł |
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Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness
ISBN: 9781848856905 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining her own experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the Western world, author shows that sightlessness has been an 'active' force in history, rather than the passive condition which is too readily assumed.
Combining her own experience with an examination of the history of blindness in the Western world, author shows that sightlessness has been an 'active...
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103,74 zł |
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Savannah Dolor: Never Stop Trying
ISBN: 9780993478727 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,77 zł |
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Never Give Up
ISBN: 9781530795895 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,86 zł |
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Blog Therapy: Posts From My Blog: Part 2
ISBN: 9781530791217 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blog Therapy is post Memoir wisdom to Love, Life, & God: Getting Past the Pain. Here you will find additional words of insight and inspiration, continued from the birth of my blog back in 2011, which chronicled a journey of transformation. Book 1 of blog posts was titled Creating A Meaningful Life After Disability. The original blog can be found at: http: //www.reneealtersatmosphere.com
Blog Therapy is post Memoir wisdom to Love, Life, & God: Getting Past the Pain. Here you will find additional words of insight and inspiration, contin...
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50,10 zł |
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Gratitude & Grit: A Mother's Healing Journey
ISBN: 9781512157208 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,40 zł |
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Wisdom from a Chair: Thirty Years of Quadriplegia - The Memoirs of Andrew I. Batavia
ISBN: 9781634910798 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his memoirs, Wisdom from a Chair, Andrew I. Batavia shares the knowledge he acquired while living with a high-level spinal cord injury in a wheelchair, describing a life transformed from a quiet, conforming teenager to a Don Quixote of the disability community. A Harvard-trained lawyer and activist, he was a pioneer in the right-to-die debate, and wrote regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
In his memoirs, Wisdom from a Chair, Andrew I. Batavia shares the knowledge he acquired while living with a high-level spinal cord injury in a wheelch...
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102,25 zł |
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