Disability and Other Human Questions (Goodley Dan)(Paperback)

Disability and Other Human Questions (Goodley Dan)(Paperback)

DAN GOODLEY draws on two decades of research and writing and weaves personal stories, scholarly literature, social media and other cultural narratives together with concepts from the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. His argument is simple: disability invites great insight into the

Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (Goodley Dan)(Paperback)

Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and complex field. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach, the book examines a diverse range of theories

Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism (Goodley Dan)(Paperback)

In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas,

Raising A Rare Girl - A memoir about parenting, disability and the beauty of being human (Lanier Heather)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir about parenting, disability, and the strange beauty of being

Does Anything Eat Wasps - And 101 Other Questions (New Scientist)(Paperback / softback)

Literature and Disability (Hall Alice)(Paperback)

Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most

Reality Boxes: And Other Black Holes in Human Consciousness (Swann Ingo)(Paperback)

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions about Dead Bodies (Doughty Caitlin)(Paperback)

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she's ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores

Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (Rymer Russ)(Paperback)

'A tragic tale of obsession, exploitation, and lost souls. And the questions Rymer poses about human experience and experiments on humans make the story both intellectually absorbing and emotionally disturbing. Genie is a wondrous feat of storytelling and investigative journalism, compulsively

Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (Watson Nick)(Paperback)

The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters

Theatre and Disability (Kuppers Petra)(Paperback)

This succinct and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience.Accessible and

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Doughty Caitlin)(Paperback / softback)

Everyone's favourite mortician offers seriously fascinating answers to the questions you have about death but were too afraid to ask - for fans of WHAT IF? and WHY DON'T PENGUINS' FEET

A Global Political Morality: Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism (Perry Michael J.)(Paperback)

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly

Poor Folk and Other Stories (Dostoyevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship

Live Loud, Love Loud (Word J. Iron)(Paperback)

Given Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. human on the other end of the line, the human beside you, the human there on the good days and the bad, the human you call home. Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. Not

Keywords for Disability Studies (Adams Rachel)(Paperback)

A new vocabulary for Disability Studies Keywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing,

Social Work and Disability (Simcock Peter)(Paperback)

Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work practice can, and indeed does,

Dan and Phil Go Outside (Howell Dan)(Pevná vazba)

Dan Howell and Phil Lester, avoiders of human contact and direct sunlight, actually went outside. Travelling around the world on tour, they have collected hundreds of exclusive, intimate and funny photos, as well as revealing and captivating side notes, to show the behind-the-scenes story of their

Of Human Freedom (Epictetus)(Paperback / softback)

A practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life. It tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical

Question of Science: Why can't penguins fly? And other questions about animals (Claybourne Anna)(Paperback / softback)

A science series that answers the funny, sometimes icky questions that kids really

That Other Voice: In Search of a God Who Speaks (Turner Graham)(Paperback)

That Other Voice is perfect reading for anybody interested in mindfulness and the big questions of life - a fascinating journal of one person's search for an answer to the ultimate spiritual mystery: whether a higher power can communicate with us directly. Graham Turner has journeyed across the

What's Eating the Universe? - And Other Cosmic Questions (Davies Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Sex and Disability (McRuer Robert)(Paperback)

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much

Hidden History: Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization (Willis Jim)(Paperback)

Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization Do we, the human species, really know who we are or where we came from or how we originated or our place in the cosmos? Or is much of what we have been taught wrong or misguided or possibly even blatant lies