Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education...
People with disabilities
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Auteur:Dolmage, JaySommaire: - Auteur:Isitt, Benjamin, Malhotra, RaviSommaire:
Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York, in 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that...
- Auteur:Venkatraman, PadmaSommaire:
Veda, a classical dance prodigy in India, lives and breathes dance -- so when an accident leaves her a below-knee amputee, her dreams are shattered. For a girl who's grown used to receiving applause for her dance prowess and...
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Auteur:Stevenson, RobinSommaire:A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a...
- Auteur:Smith, HeatherSommaire:
Lou spends every Saturday with Grandad and Pops. They walk to the library hand in hand, like a chain of paper dolls. Grandad reads books about science and design, Pops listens to rock and roll, and Lou bounces from lap to lap. But...
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Auteur:Grey, AndrewSommaire:A Taste of Love Story If Peter Christopoulos has learned one thing from his last three years in a wheelchair, it’s that people have a hard time seeing past the hardware. When he asks out Russ Baker after giving him a quote on equipment...
- Auteur:Beisser, Arnold R.Sommaire:
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Auteur:Lundell, MargoSommaire:An easy-to-read version of the remarkable and inspiring story of Helen Keller and her special teacher, Annie Sullivan. UEB Braille Grade 2 14 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
- Auteur:Kemmerer, BrigidSommaire:
A New York Times bestseller! "Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale."--Jodi Picoult In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another...
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Auteur:Winberg, Mona, Boyer, J. PatrickSommaire:Solitary Courage is the story of a mother's tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter's astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens...
- Auteur:HAWTHORNE, TraceySommaire:
When her leg was amputated following an horrific scooter accident in 2001, South African swimming sensation Natalie du Toit literally dived right back into swimming. In 2002 Natalie swam the able-bodied 800m freestyle final at the...
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