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Two lives: an autobiography of one man's two lives
By Peter Marshall. 1963
Un enfant à découvrir: [au-delà de la déficience physique ou intellectuelle] (Collection Parents)
By Francine Ferland. 2001
The story of my life
By Helen Keller. 1988
At the age of 20, deaf/blind Helen Keller wrote this account of her education, which turned a neglected, ignorant child…
into a thinking, responsive person. Followed by "Midstream : my later life". (Reissue). 1998.Teens with physical disabilities: real-life stories of meeting the challenges
By Glenn Alan Cheney. 1995
Eight teenagers describe the impact their physical disabilities have made on their lives. Three of the youths use wheelchairs because…
of injuries. Others deal with blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and rheumatoid arthritis. For junior and senior high school. 1995.The baby challenge: a handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability
By Mukti Jain Campion. 1990
Take one step
By Evelyn West Ayrault. 1963
A victim of cerebral palsy tells the story of her life and of the determined parents who literally forced her…
to become self-sustaining in the face of discouragement. Today, a successful practicing psychologist, she has an intimate understanding of the problems faced by handicapped people. 1963.Père Jacques Ouellette & Père Roland Campbell, clercs de Saint-Viateur
By Roger Brousseau. 1990
Voici une brève biographie des Pères Jacques Ouellette et Roland Campbell, Clercs de Saint-Viateur. On relate ici l'enfance, la vocation,…
les années de formation, ainsi que le précieux travail des deux hommes; particulièrement les nombreuses années de dévouement passées auprès des handicapés visuels et des aveugles. 1990.Until we have no tomorrows: "Dottie"
By Patricia Brudenell. 1999
Be a friend: children who live with HIV speak
By Lori Wiener, Aprille Best, A Pizzo. 1994
In these writings, children with HIV infection and AIDS tell how it feels to be different from other kids, how…
they face rejection if people learn they are sick and what it is like to lose friends and loved ones to AIDS.Le tyrannosaure (Les sciences naturelles de Tatsu Nagata.)
By Tatsu Nagata, Dedieu. 2016
Catapulté en pleine Préhistoire, Tatsu Nagata observe le terrifiant tyrannosaure. Ce lézard géant pouvait peser jusqu'à 7 tonnes et mesurer…
12 mètres. Ce terrible prédateur, friand de chair fraîche Heureusement lorsqu'ils étaient sur terre, les hommes n'existaient pas encore ! Années M-2 et plus.En toute sécurité: un plan d'avenir personnalisé en six étapes à l'intention des personnes handicapées
By Jack Collins, Al Etmanski, Vickie Cammack. 2006
Le fauteuil roulant: ou La psychologie de la colonne vertébrale ((Prose entière))
By Régis April. 1978
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, And The Making Of A Spectacle
By Lukas Rieppel. 2019
Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America…
into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America's Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture.A Life Beyond Reason: A Father's Memoir
By Chris Gabbard. 2019
For readers of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and When Breath Becomes Air, the story of how one…
father's Kafka-esque foray into the bowels of American medicine forced him to reexamine his own values and the purpose of human life. Before becoming a father, Chris Gabbard was a fast-track academic finishing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford. A disciple of reason and all things steeped in the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers, Gabbard was influenced by his favorite philosophers-Socrates, Aristotle, John Locke, Peter Singer. That is, until he had August. Despite his faith in modern medicine, the very science Gabbard touted as infallible fails him. August was born nonverbal, unable to walk or feed himself due to an injury that was the likely result of medical error. In the midst of adjusting to a life of intense caregiving, doctor's visits, negotiations with Medicaid, and the pressure of mounting debt, he becomes obsessed with uncovering what doctors should have done differently to save his son from what he can only fathom as a life of suffering. But, as Gabbard cares for August during his short fourteen years of life, he experiences a profound evolution as the monumental truths of his idols give way and he comes to understand that his son is undeniably a person deserving of life. Unflinching and luminous, A Life Beyond Reason is an account of medical error, family, and excruciating personal and philosophical transformations for anyone who has questioned the very foundations of their beliefs.The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal
By Jonathan Mooney. 2019
"What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney's transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from…
old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful."-Los Angeles Times This program is read by the author. A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was a short bus rider-a derogatory term used for kids in special education and a distinction that told the world he wasn't "normal." Along with other kids with special challenges, he grew up hearing himself denigrated daily. Ultimately, Mooney surprised skeptics by graduating with honors from Brown University. But he could never escape his past, so he hit the road. To free himself and to learn how others had moved beyond labels, he created an epic journey. He would buy his own short bus and set out cross-country, looking for kids who had dreamed up magical, beautiful ways to overcome the obstacles that separated them from the so-called normal world. In The Short Bus, his humorous, irreverent, and poignant record of this odyssey, Mooney describes his four-month, 35,000-mile journey across borders that most people never see. He meets thirteen people in thirteen states, including an eight-year-old deaf and blind girl who likes to curse out her teachers in sign language. Then there's Butch Anthony, who grew up severely learning disabled but who is now the proud owner of the Museum of Wonder. These people teach Mooney that there's no such thing as normal and that to really live, every person must find their own special ways of keeping on. The Short Bus is a unique gem, propelled by Mooney's heart, humor, and outrageous rebellions.Care work: dreaming disability justice /
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. 2018
Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities…
of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative "collective access"--access not as a chore but as a collective responsibility and pleasure--in our communities and political movements. Bringing their survival skills and knowledge from years of cultural and activist work, Piepzna-Samarasinha explores everything from the economics of queer femme emotional labour, to suicide in queer and trans communities, to the nitty-gritty of touring as a sick and disabled queer artist of colour. 2018.Fodor's great American vacations for travelers with disabilities: With Complete Accessibility Information on Hotels, Restaurants and Attractions (Fodor's Ser.)
By Fodor'S, Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff. 1996
This handbook for travelers with physical handicaps includes accessibility information in three categories--mobility, hearing, and vision--as well as names and…
addresses of specialized services and facilities. Destinations include major U.S. cities, numerous national parks, Pennsylvania Dutch country, and Walt Disney WorldLa vie en gros: regard sur la société et le poids
By Mickaël Bergeron. 2019
Au carrefour du témoignage autobiographique, de l'ouvrage de référence et du discours militant, cet essai polymorphe de Mickaël Bergeron livre…
un percutant plaidoyer pour une revalorisation du corps dans sa diversité. En puisant dans ses expériences personnelles et en évoquant différentes personnalités publiques ou historiques, en se référant à plusieurs études et en menant ses propres enquêtes, en passant de l'anecdote microscopique à l'observation macroscopique, Mickaël Bergeron parvient à offrir un portrait de la grossophobie à la fois détaillé, englobant, drôle et troublant. L'auteur effrite finalement au passage les piliers de la masculinité hégémonique en exprimant son besoin d'amour, de désir, de douceurConfessions d'un prêtre de la rue
By Claude Paradis. 2018
À travers une série d'entretiens avec Jean-Marie Lapointe, l'abbé Claude Paradis nous dévoile la force qui anime l'organisme Notre-Dame-de-la-Rue dans…
sa mission auprès des personnes itinérantes. Leurs discussions à coeur ouvert témoignent du lien fraternel qui unit les deux hommes, mais elles révèlent surtout toute l'humanité qui anime le prêtre de la rue. En retournant aux sources de ses propres démons, celui-ci nous montre que nous avons tous en nous une part d'ombre qui peut être apprivoisée. De son enfance heureuse, mais perturbée par les troubles alimentaires, en Gaspésie à sa descente aux enfers dans les bas-fonds de Montréal, il nous livre un témoignage bouleversant de vérité qui change radicalement le regard que nous avons sur la rue, sur les personnes qui y habitent et sur celles qui y oeuvrentLe choix de l'heure: ruser avec la mort ?
By Luce Des Aulniers. 2018
Cet essai prend la forme d'un dialogue entre un médecin des soins palliatifs depuis trois décennies et une anthropologue pionnière…
de l'étude des rapports humains face à la mort. À partir de 40 mots-clés, il offre des facettes souvent inaperçues, voire taboues, des réalités de la maladie, du soin et du lien social présentes lorsque la mort se profile à l'horizon. Il cherche à discerner les besoins psychiques et socioculturels à l'origine de la demande d'une devancée, ainsi replacée au sein des transformations contemporaines de notre rapport à la mort. En éclairant tant les mouvements culturels que l'anticipation du deuil des individus, une question traverse ainsi ce livre: le souhait d'accélérer le tempo vers la mort serait-il aussi une de nos manières actuelles de ruser avec le destin?