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One of the Lucky Ones
By Lucy Ching. 1980
Many people might think me unlucky because I am blind, writes Lucy Ching in this poignant autobiography, but I prefer…
to think of myself as one of the lucky ones. Indeed, Lucy Ching's achievements despite total blindness would be outstanding in any time and place- especially so in China of the 1930s, where the blind were treated as outcasts and blind children were sometimes sold into slavery by their own families. Lucy Ching was fortunate enough to be kept at home with her parents, but as she reveals in this remarkable memoir, her triumph over her disability was due to her own fierce determination... and to a very special friendship. Under the devoted care of her amah, an illiterate servant woman who was guided only by common sense, intuition and affection for the child, Lucy Ching learned to live in a sighted world, vowing to have the independence and fulfillment of a profession. As a child, Lucy taught herself to read and write in braille and was allowed to attend school with sighted children. And, quite against the beliefs of her family, she converted to Christianity and made a solemn promise to God that her lifework would be to help the blind. Lucy's unflagging dedication was rewarded with a scholarship to the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, where she received the special training which has enabled her to carry out her promise. My life could have been spent in enforced idleness and isolation, observes Lucy Ching, cut off from other people and their lives and problems. But I was luckier than that. God had other plans for me. Like Helen Keller, she found herself, her work and her God through affliction. Today Lucy Ching is a social worker in Hong Kong, where she works with the blind as well as other handicapped people.When The Blizzard Blows
By Kenneth Jernigan. 1994
This is the seventh book in the Kernel Book Series. In these books, people who are blind share incidents from…
their lives and tell how they coped with them. Some are serious; some are humorous; all are thought-provoking. Other books in this series are available from Bookshare.Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut
By James Marcus. 2004
The Car, The Sled, and The Butch Wax
By Marc Maurer. 2003
In this book, successful people (who happen to be blind) tell stories which illustrate coping strategies while amusing the reader.…
Young adults will find courage in these true sharings. Can a person who is blind really do almost anything by using alternate techniques? What are those techniques? These eight people share a few of them. When a student teacher is faced with schoolchildren who have a sledding day planned, will a white cane be enough? Can a man without sight possibly rebuild a car's engine? When a young girl tests butch wax on her long tresses, does her hair ever return to its normal state? Whose fault is it when a person who is blind opens a taxicab door onto the side of a shiny, new SUV? These experiences delight, challenge and inform. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.Independence without Sight or Sound: Suggestions for Practitioners Working with Deaf-Blind Adults
By Dona Sauerburger. 1993
Helen Keller: A Life
By Dorothy Herrmann. 1998
A comprehensive biography of Helen Keller, focusing not only on her disabilities and challenges and how she overcame them or…
made them moot, but also on her relationships, her work with other challenged and inspirational people, her involvement in the arts as subject and as participant, and her political beliefs and actions.Second Sight
By Robert V. Hine. 1993
To Race the Wind
By Harold Krents. 1972
Retarded isn't Stupid, Mom!
By Sandra Z. Kaufman. 1999
At 2 she was labeled mentally retarded at 22 she was living alone. At the tender age of 2…
after months of worry it was discovered that Nicole, born 1955 was mentally retarded. Despite this, she did not allow it to hinder her life and took what people said about her with a pinch of salt, always full of determination and independence to enable her to live a normal life, constantly combating problems provided by other people. She wishes for her achievements to be passed onto other families who are in similar circumstances, and how even with difficulties it is possible to live a normal life.Que Freud me pardonne!
By Jacques Voyer. 2002
Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam
By Peter Putnam. 1952
This story, told from Mr. Pudnam himself, tells of the early years of the Seeing eye and how he trained…
with his first guide dog. Blinded in a gun accident before his eighteenth birthday, this story is of Pudnam grew to accept his blindness, and go and train with his first dog.Blind Courage
By Bill Irwin, Dave Mccaslin. 1993
Bill Irwin, a confessed non hiker, and his German Shepherd Seeing eye dog Orient, through hike the 2000 mile plus…
Appalachian Trail. With the help of Orient, god, and many great friends he meets along the way, Bill tells of the trials, triumphs and adventures on the trail. From the time a bear slowed their progress, to the time he almost slid off a cliff to certain death. The book is filled with stories that will make you laugh, reflect, and maybe bring you to tears.Art, enterprise, and ethics: the life and works of William Morris
By Charles Harvey, Jon Press. 1996
William Morris' contributions to the worlds of art history and design, socialism and socialist thought, literary criticism and business were…
not always fully appreciated while he was alive, but a look backwards reveals a man of many achievements. Here his early influences and later accomplishments are examined in a series of essays, several of which were previously published in scholarly journals. 1996.Until we have no tomorrows: "Dottie"
By Patricia Brudenell. 1999
Men of Invention and Industry
By Samuel Smiles.
Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…
one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.Wired for sound: a journey into hearing
By Beverly Biderman. 1998
Biderman follows the evolution of the cochlear implant and its use in restoring hearing to people who are deaf or…
hearing impaired. She shares her own journey from deafness to having a cochlear implant, and her research into the implant before she received it. She also discusses recent developments in the use of the implants.The true story of the Schaefer's determination to raise Catherine, a profoundly retarded and virtually helpless child, at home despite…
personal problems and social pressures. This is an updated version of the original 1978 book, and follows Catherine's life as she lives in her own home, assisted by caregivers.A two tiered existence
By Samantha Kane. 1998
A Two Tiered Existence relates the life of Sam Hashimi - who hit the headlines in 1990 with his notorious…
take-over bid for Sheffield United football club - and the successful transformation of Sam into Samantha. Spanning two broken marriages, the traumatic loss of children, hospitalization and imprisonment, it is the story of a search for identity that would finally come into conflict with the conventional life of husband, father and businessman.Privileged Hands
By Geerat Vermeij. 1997