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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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In 1978, artist Hughes de Montalembert was blinded by two muggers. This is the tale of his search for a… cure, of his rehabilitation and his despair, and finally his discovery of reconciliation and peace. 1985. Uniform title: Lumière assassinée.
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The author of "Planet of the Blind", who has been legally blind since birth, explains how he perceives the world… around him through listening. In these essays he describes childhood influences, adult travels, artful eavesdropping, and love of poetry and Caruso's singing. 2006.
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Social issues, Aging (social issues)
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Florida columnist and author focuses his humour on the aging of baby boomers. He gives highlights of each of the… "formative boomer years" from 1947, when he was born, to 1974. Barry grumbles about such issues as failing eyesight, retirement planning, and not being "hip" anymore. Bestseller. 1998.
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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For Tom Sullivan —author, actor, athlete, singer, entertainer, and producer—a life with blindness has been a life with very few… true limits. In this elegant exploration of the senses, he considers the different challenges he’s faced and explains the wonder he carries because, not in spite, of his blindness. 2012.
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons
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Neer suffered from low vision throughout her life and eventually became blind. Just as she lost her sight totally, her… adult son died and left her his 13-year-old daughter to raise. Neer's story is about coping - how to travel, shop, socialize, read and write, and run a household - and she describes attending plays, cooking for dinner parties, becoming street savvy, and, literally, dancing in the dark. 1994.
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A memoir about the author's father whose work in the field of cholera, malaria, and tuberculosis is notable. The author… also tells about being sent to a school for the blind after illness robs him of his sight. 1972.
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Raised in a village far from professional help during the Great Depression, Isabel Beveridge attended a distant residential school for… deaf and blind children, and went on to become the first blind graduate of the University of British Columbia. She overcame many difficulties and challenges in her search for higher education and meaningful work in a competitive market, and was eventually awarded a place in the Alumni Hall of Fame of Columbia University in New York in recognition of her groundbreaking achievements as well as her lifetime of service to blind and visually impaired people. 2003.
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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For nine to 10 months of the year, the Ontario School for the Blind was home to many children. Here,… former students, including musician Jeff Healey, describe their lives at this school and reminisce about their experiences, both good and bad. 1993.
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Biography of Mae Brown (1935-1973), who was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from a Canadian university, and was a… counsellor at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Her college tutor chronicles Brown's family, education, social and professional life, and triumphs and disappointments.
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This book is of Cyril Wakefield's life in Lincolnshire. He was blind from a very early age but has, just… as with sighted people, a variety of interests, desires and other characteristics. This is the story of an ordinary man who, as the result of misfortune in his very early years, has led a far from ordinary life. 1996.
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A prolific nature writer's autobiographical essays. In "In the Country of the Blind," Hoagland explores social and biblical notions of… blindness and describes the loss and surgical restoration of his eyesight. Remembers teachers John Berryman and Archibald MacLeish and joining the circus at eighteen. 2001.
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Biography, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The author was Canada's first blind diplomat, and his vivid account of life and work in Tokyo, New Delhi and… Ottawa is a testament to the blind person's native capacity for innovation and practical adjustment. But the deeper message of Beyond Vision is more radical and consequential: the self - the real self that is normally veiled - does not go blind. The deep self stands entirely apart from the experience of sightedness or blindness, as a centre of stable equanimity. This is what the author discovered through his study and assimilation of Indian Vedantic philosophy. Jones briefly describes the basic features of Advaita Vedanta, and identifies startling findings of contemporary science that are consonant with the Advaitic view of world and self. He then outlines practical applications of Advaita, for example the mindfulness practice that allowed him to retain his white cane mobility skills despite chronic and untreatable spinal and muscular pain. 2018.
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Health and medicine, Pregnancy and childbirth
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This is an up-to-date straightforward guide designed to help teenagers understand and cope responsibly with the physical and emotional changes… of emerging adulthood. The book includes chapters on periods, sexual attraction, making love, safe sex, sex and the disabled and sex and the laws. Junior and Senior High . 1996.
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On four occasions Janet Gray has won the World Disabled Water-ski Championships. She has been champion and world record holder… in all three individual disciplines as well as overall champion. In competition with sighted water-skiers, she is one of the top skiers in Ireland and in the higher echelons of competitive skiing in the UK. And yet, in 2004, she nearly died. In the course of a training session in Tampa, Florida, Janet skied at high speed into a steel ski jump in the centre of the lake. 'Doctors assessing the extent of my injuries were united in their prognosis: I wouldn't survive the night.' But Janet Gray did not die. In fact, not only did she make a full recovery, she resumed her career in water-skiing and regained her world titles and previous ranking as World Disabled Water-ski Champion. This book tells her remarkable story. 2009.
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Describes Knighton's voyage through the first year of fatherhood, made more daunting by his blindness. He wonders how he will… get to know his pre-verbal bundle of coos and burps when he can't see her smile or look into her eyes. Tackling these hurdles with grace and humour, Ryan is determined to do his part as a father, despite the pitfalls. Some strong language. 2010.
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Knighton, who teaches at Capilano College in Vancouver, began losing his sight early enough in life that milestones such as… his first driving lesson and his first relationships with girls were anything but ordinary. Experiences in adulthood covered (often humorously) in this memoir include attending college in Vancouver, teaching English in South Korea, and getting married. Canada Reads 2012. 2006.
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Health and medicine, Pregnancy and childbirth
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A practical and philosophical approach to childbirth which encourages expectant parents to explore the changes in mind, body and feelings at the centre of the transition to parenthood. 1983.
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Richard Moore was ten years old when he was shot by a British soldier, on his journey past an army… base on his way home from school. Here Richard Moore lends us his eyes as he shares his story, from his early years growing up on the Catholic working-class Creggan Estate in Derry, the second youngest of a family of twelve children. In it he describes the moment of grace that accompanied the realisation that he would never again see, where he accepted his fate instantly and without bitterness, and tells of wonderful childhood escapades, including 'endless cycles down Malin Gardens' guided by the voices of his friends. 2009.
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Late one evening in February 1966, the author was drinking a cup of tea in Waterloo Station. Suddenly, everything around… him was enveloped in a veil of mist and, within minutes, he was blind. This is an account of that experience and of his efforts to come to terms with the catastrophe. 1974.
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Born deaf and Jewish yet became a Catholic priest; could not walk until he was three yet his work has… spanned five continents; could not speak until he was nine yet has knowledge of fifteen languages; grew up under apartheid but did pioneering multiracial work; lost his sight but never lost his vision; is now both deaf and blind but that is no barrier to his faith or work. This is a remarkable autobiography of a deaf-blind priest, who was brought up in the Orthodox Jewish faith. 2005.