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Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity
ISBN: 9780814751343 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 literature has followed in this wake. Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. Disability Studies is not simply about the variations that exist in human behavior, appearance, functioning, sensory acuity, and cognitive processing but the meaning we make of those... From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passag... |
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Living with Chronic Neurologic Disease: A Handbook for Patient and Family
ISBN: 9780393064162 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades at the Institute of Neuroscience at St. Barnabas Hospital, Dr. I. S. Cooper and his colleagues have examined and treated more than 30,000 patients with chronic neurologic disease. In this book, Dr. Copper speaks directly to both patient and family as though they were with him in his consulting room. He offers counsel about selecting a physician and establishing a relationship based on mutual trust and respect. He deals with the problems of anxiety and loneliness, and helps the patient plan as fruitful and independent a life as possible. Physical therapy and forms of...
Over the past two decades at the Institute of Neuroscience at St. Barnabas Hospital, Dr. I. S. Cooper and his colleagues have examined and treated mor...
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Looking Up : A Humorous and Unflinching Account of Learning to Live Again With Sudden Disability
ISBN: 9780753513866 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tim Rushby-Smith fell six metres out of a tree and broke his back, confining him to a wheelchair. This book provides an account of how he learned to live with disability, from overwhelming feelings of anger and despair, and learned how to face the future h
Tim Rushby-Smith fell six metres out of a tree and broke his back, confining him to a wheelchair. This book provides an account of how he learned to l...
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The New Arthritis Cure: Eliminate Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Pain Permanently
ISBN: 9780941599825 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the true cause of arthritis and fibromyalgia. Up till now these conditions have been considered incurable. The reason for this is that doctors have not recognized the cause, and without knowing the cause it is virtually impossible to develop a cure. Recent medical research, however, has established a clear cause and effect connection. The underlying cause for all the major forms of arthritis and for fibromyalgia is now known. Drugs aren't the answer. However, there are natural health-promoting therapies that do work and can stop the progression of the disease and encourage...
This book reveals the true cause of arthritis and fibromyalgia. Up till now these conditions have been considered incurable. The reason for this is th...
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Once Upon a Challenge: Hearing is Believing
ISBN: 9781440154096 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing
ISBN: 9781936303021 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility and to address the spinal curvature of scoliosis without surgery. The book presents an evidence-based look at how this approach works. Dr. Fishman has been treating individuals with scoliosis with yoga for many years and has collected x-rays of his work, before and after, demonstrating actual lessening of the degree of curvature from the practice of Iyengar yoga.
Yoga and Scoliosis: A... Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healingis a deeply soothing form of moving meditation and a physical activity and is a safe way t...
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Cycle of Hope: A Journey From Paralysis to Possiblity
ISBN: 9780998430201 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self
ISBN: 9781611320978 / Angielski / Twarda / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma...
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of ...
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Personal and Professionals Perspectives on Age-Related Macular Degeneration
ISBN: 9780891284857 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind presents a personal account of living successfully with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combined with powerful new information on effective service delivery. Ninety-three-year old Lindy Bergman illustrates the ways in which life with low vision can be lived with independence, dignity, and personal satisfaction. Also included are highly informative chapters, written by the world-renowned experts from The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired, encompassing the latest information about the causes and treatment of AMD; a concise,...
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind presents a personal account of living successfully with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combined with powerful n...
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Meniere Man And The Butterfly. The Meniere Effect.: How To Minimize The Effect Of Meniere's On Family, Money, Lifestyle, Dreams And You.
ISBN: 9780980715545 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PAPERBACK INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE KINDLE EBOOK
If you read Meniere Man's other books, you know the Author's personal 'solo-recovery' (without surgery) was a ground-breaking success story. But along with recovery, a catastrophe happened. The Author battled Meniere's disease on two fronts. He fought Meniere's and recovered his physical health but lost the fight to save his material world; the family home, future assets and his business career. This is a book HE wishes someone had written for him Meniere's disease can affect not only your general sense of well... PAPERBACK INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE KINDLE EBOOK
If you read Meniere Man's other books, you know the Author's personal 'solo-re... |
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Surviving Life: Through Faith, Hope and Love
ISBN: 9781478709732 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I have been blessed to share Cori's journey through life. I have also discovered that life isn't short of resources; it is about the opportunities that we have been given. I have found that life begins at the end of your comfort zone, and doing things that used to be "outside the box" challenges the opinions of one's single-minded beliefs. You would think that by surviving with limitations, you're grounded or destined to only live life within your abilities and not beyond. Do not allow your restrictions to be an excuse to ground you. Do not accept that you can only live a certain life. Cori...
I have been blessed to share Cori's journey through life. I have also discovered that life isn't short of resources; it is about the opportunities tha...
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From Tragedy to Triumph: The Story of John Tartaglio
ISBN: 9780991259212 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 24 hours, a rare bacterial infection turned healthy 17-year-old John Tartaglio into a double-leg amputee, but 15 hours and 59 minutes is all that it took for him to reclaim the life that he had left behind. This is his story of perseverance over a heartbreaking circumstance as incomprehensible as it is seemingly insurmountable. Amputated up to his hip bones and told he would never walk again, John did not give up on life. Instead, he rose to do what others said he could not. Walking, running, competing, but most importantly living, he proved to them what he had always known his disability...
In 24 hours, a rare bacterial infection turned healthy 17-year-old John Tartaglio into a double-leg amputee, but 15 hours and 59 minutes is all that i...
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Managing the Symptoms of MS, 6th Edition
ISBN: 9781936303649 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fully updated and revised sixth edition of the definitive guide to clinically tested and proven methods for effectively managing all of the symptoms characteristic of MS and MS treatment. Based on the most up-to-date disease management strategies, medical and research breakthroughs, and latest drug therapies, Dr. Randall T. Schapiro provides the information you need to manage both the disease and symptoms, and make everyday life easier. New chapters offer essential advice for those newly diagnosed with the disease, and those who experience more symptoms with age. ...The fully updated and revised sixth edition of the definitive guide to clinically tested and proven methods for effectively managing all of the sym... |
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The Everything Guide To Lyme Disease: From Symptoms to Treatments, All You Need to Manage the Physical and Psychological Effects of Lyme Disease
ISBN: 9781440577093 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot
ISBN: 9781580405706 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third edition of Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot has been fully revised and updated, and continues to be the essential handbook on foot care and the treatment of the diabetic foot.
The diabetic foot is typically the victim of nerve damage, micro- and macrovascular disease, and faulty healing, mechanisms that without proper care can lead to amputation. More than 80,000 diabetes-related amputations are performed in the United States each year, but non-specialist primary care providers, as well as residents, nurses, and diabetes educators, can help prevent this devastating,... The third edition of Clinical Care of the Diabetic Foot has been fully revised and updated, and continues to be the essential handbook on foot ...
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Crooked Paths Made Straight: A Blind Teacher's Adventures Traveling around the World
ISBN: 9781491770351 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1959, two years before she retired from teaching, Dr. Isabelle Grant set off on a yearlong journey around the world with Oscar, her long white cane, in her hand. She had been totally blind for the past twelve years. In Crooked Paths Made Straight, she shares the story of her journey during which she visited twenty-three countries from Great Britain to Fiji. In Karachi, she traveled the streets by rickshaw and struggled to master the Urdu language. In India, she explored the Taj Mahal, and in Burma she slept in a room where lizards raced up and down the walls. At a time when both women and...
In 1959, two years before she retired from teaching, Dr. Isabelle Grant set off on a yearlong journey around the world with Oscar, her long white cane...
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Meniere Man. The Self-Help Book For Meniere's Vertigo.: Meniere Man And The Film Director
ISBN: 9780987627001 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Hip Pain: Treating Hip Pain: Preventing Hip Pain, All Natural Remedies For Hip Pain, Medical Cures For Hip Pain, Along With Exer
ISBN: 9781640480407 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Would you love to have strong and healthy hips? Whether you want to (1) reduce the pain and increase flexibility, (2) discover the best treatment options, or (3) know how to care for your hips the right way, this book will teach you everything you need to know. Treat your hips well for optimal living. Our hips are critical to our ability to move effectively and live actively. They are also one of the most commonly injured body parts, so it is only appropriate to do what we can to... Would you love to have strong and healthy hips? Whether you want to (1) reduce the pain and increase flexibility, (2... |
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Hip Pain: Treating Hip Pain: Preventing Hip Pain, All Natural Remedies For Hip Pain, Medical Cures For Hip Pain, Along With Exercises And Rehab For Hip Pain Relief
ISBN: 9781640481657 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Would you love to have strong and healthy hips? Whether you want to (1) reduce the pain and increase flexibility, (2) discover the best treatment options, or (3) know how to care for your hips the right way, this book will teach you everything you need to know. Treat your hips well for optimal living. Our hips are critical to our ability to move effectively and live actively. They are also one of the most commonly injured body parts, so it is only appropriate to do what we can to... Would you love to have strong and healthy hips? Whether you want to (1) reduce the pain and increase flexibility, (2... |
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Sleep: Discover How To Fall Asleep Easier, Get A Better Nights Rest & Wake Up Feeling Energized
ISBN: 9781640481954 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you had it with being tired all the time? Would you do almost anything for a good night's sleep? Whether you want to (1) feel more energized all day long, (2) know how to easily fall asleep, or (3) know how to get a more restful and better night's sleep, then this is the book for you! Destroy insomnia once and for all. There's no reason to spend your days in a mental fog and your nights in restless wakefulness. Learn when and how... Have you had it with being tired all the time? Would you do almost anything for a good night's sleep? Whether you want t... |
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