You may have heard of David Hartman: Temple University held a press conference when he entered medical school there, the first blind student accepted into such a program. This biography, however, spends perhaps 20 pages on that...
Blindness
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Author:David Hartman, Bernard AsbellSummary: -
Author:Michalko, RodSummary:When Rod Michalko's sight finally became so limited that he no longer felt safe on busy city streets or traveling alone, he began a search for a guide. The Two-in-One is his account of how his search ended with Smokie, a guide dog, and...
- Author:WYNDHAM, JohnSummary:
Planet Earth is blinded by a cosmic meteor shower and the triffids, walking, semi-intelligent and dangerous plants, seize their opportunity to establish their dominance. The human survivors of the disaster must fight to survive.
- Author:Onda, RikuSummary:
Selected by NYT as one of Most Notable Books of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks...
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Author:Kleege, GeorginaSummary: - Author:Meruane, LinaSummary:
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography...
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Author:Griffin, John HowardSummary: -
Author:Heller, Morton A.Summary:This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the...
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Author:Kleege, GeorginaSummary:More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art explores the ways blindness and visual art are linked in many facets of the culture. The author writes from her position as the blind daughter of two visual artists. Due to this...
- Author:ADAMS, StevenSummary:
Autobiographic account of the author's life including the accident that left him blind at age 29.
- Author:DANIELS, EllenSummary:
Handbook for the blind, partially sighted, their families and friends. Explains what it is really like to be blind and how the sighted can make the lives of the blind easier.
- Author:Michalko, RodSummary:
In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the...
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Author:Montalembert, Hugues de.Summary:The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence.
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- Author:LEES, RichardSummary:
An inspiring story of a man who was brought up in Rochdale in the fifties, and who battled with the trauma of losing his sight as a teenager.
- Author:Stephenson, JuneSummary:
