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  • Le Tako Tsubo

    Un chagrin de travail

    « Le 13 février 2014, je suis victime d’un Tako Tsubo – maladie quasi inconnue, même du corps médical –, que l’on appelle syndrome du cœur brisé et qui touche plusieurs milliers de personnes par an. Surtout des femmes. Dans ce livre à la fois intimiste et journalistique, j’ai voulu témoigner. Pourquoi cette pathologie s’est-elle si rapidement développée ? Quels en sont les causes et les signes ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Still Living the Edges: A Disabled Women's Reader

    A Disabled Women's Reader

    Edited by Diane Driedger ...
    Living the Edges: A Disabled Woman’s Reader, the lives of women with disabilities have not changed much. Still Living the Edges provides a timely follow-up that traces the ways disabled women are still on the edges, whether that be on the cutting edge, being pushed to the edges of society, or challenging the edges—the barriers in their way. This collection brings together the diverse voices of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Say Hello

    by Carly Findlay ...
    A forthright, honest and rousingly triumphant memoir from a woman who has to live with a highly visible different appearancedue to a rare skin condition. Say hello to Carly.'In fairytales,the characters who look different are often castas the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skinthat they are seen as "good" or less frightening. There are very fewstories where the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Babette handicapée méchante

    Les infirmes et les aveugles ne sont plus repoussés dans des Cours des miracles moyenâgeuses, mais sommes-nous sûrs que leur sort se soit tellement amélioré ? Babette Auerbacher, aujourd'hui avocate, a participé en 1973 à la fondation du groupe Handicapés méchants. Elle raconte sa propre expérience du handicap, du ghetto, de l'exclusion et des luttes. Avec la colère de vivre, sans relâche, elle se ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Kika & Me

    How One Extraordinary Guide Dog Changed My World

    by Dr Amit Patel ...
    From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel**’s sight-loss journey and how one guide dog changed his world.**'Inspiring and compelling . . . rekindles one's faith in human nature' - Andrew MarrAmit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Vous avez dit pauvres d'esprit ?

    10 ans avec les handicapés mentaux

    by Martine Bouju ...
    Nous les rencontrons dans le métro, dans la rue, dans les magasins. Ils nous ressemblent, mais nous ne les reconnaissons pas. Parce que quelque chose en eux nous choque, parole, démarche, regard, ils nous font peur, ils nous troublent. Nous les disons « pauvres d’esprit », nous calculons leur Quotient Intellectuel (Q.I.), nous organisons leurs ghettos, nous inventons leur tribu. Puis nous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Derrière ton sourire

    Lorsque Silas, six ans, est subitement atteint du trouble désintégratif de l’enfance, sa famille doit non seulement apprendre à supporter sa perte, mais aussi réapprendre à vivre avec celui qu’il est désormais. Du petit garçon d’avant il ne reste qu’un regard bleu pénétrant... et un sourire intense qui ne le quitte presque jamais.Par le récit d’une mère, sous la forme d’une lettre ouverte à son ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategie artistiche d'integrazione sociale

    Ogni essere umano, essendo soltanto di passaggio su questa terra, dovrebbe contribuire al miglioramento della condizione umana.Per questo motivo, negli ultimi venti anni ho dedicato buona parte del mio tempo alla ricerca, al volontariato e alla sperimentazione.Avevo appena 18 anni, quando Intrapresi il percorso formativo a me stesso e parallelamente svolgevo attività artistiche e di volontariato ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crip Up the Kitchen

    Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook

    by Jules Sherred ...
    A comprehensive guide and recipe collection that brings the economy and satisfaction of home cooking to disabled and neurodivergent cooks.Cripping / Crip Up: A term used by disabled disability rights advocates and academia to signal taking back power, to lessen stigma, and to disrupt ableism as to ensure disabled voices are included in all aspects of life.When Jules Sherred discovered the Instant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deaf Gain

    Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity

    Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Incontinence a Time to Heal with Yoga and Acupressure

    A Six Week Exercise Program for People with Simple Stress Urinary Incontinence

    About the Book "These exercises [for Simple Urinary Incontinence] really DO work! I use them regularly and I often remind my friends to do the same." Therese Sherry, Active Retiree, Arkansas Do you, like so many others, suffer from Simple Urinary Incontinence? Do you leak urine when you sneeze, cough, or run? Do you have trouble making it to the bathroom in time? Do you suffer from adult "diaper ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 我們都被貼滿了標籤──從連結資源到串起故事,社工與身心障礙者不為人知的生命經驗

    by 王晨宇 ...
    Series series 邊境
    「你們一定很有愛心!」「我長大以後也要成為跟你一樣的社工!」「身心障礙?跟殘障是一樣的嗎?」「你是不是智障?」「要跟我們當朋友?可以呀,去偷你媽的錢給我們。」「如果我也跑掉了……還剩下誰?」「我就是想餵她每一餐,直到我沒辦法照顧為止。」「人若落魄,就什麼都沒有了……」「你不給錢,我就死給你看!」第一線社會工作的真實寫照看見社工與身心障礙者身上「被貼滿的標籤」「我所分享的,是社工進入身心障礙家庭,造成漣漪,甚或激起水花的... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • L'Aventure à Bras Ouverts

    Un voyage en humanité

    Le grand défenseur de la vie Tugdual Derville nous raconte comment la rencontre d'un enfant handicapé a changé sa vie et l'a amené à fonder l'association "À bras ouverts." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Braves Bêtes

    Animaux et handicapés, même combat ?

    Petite fille, Sunaura Taylor entend des enfants dire qu’elle marche comme un singe, mange comme un chien et que son handicap la fait ressembler à un animal. Elle, qui aime tant les animaux, s’étonne que cette comparaison soit péjorative car, après tout, l’être humain est un animal.Bien entourée par sa famille pendant toute son enfance, Sunaura Taylor désire ardemment se mettre en lien avec le ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

    by Alice Wong ...
    16 essays by 17 disabled writers, activists and artists. This is crip wisdom for the people.Edited by Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, Resistance and Hope will transform the way you think about activism, leadership and social justice.How do we fight back in an era of uncertainty, institutionalized cruelty, and widespread tolerance for ableism and hate? Written in 2017, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Marcus

    A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me

    by Jerry McGill ...
    The idea to write to you was not an easy one.The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for life; his assailant was never caught. Thirty years later, Jerry wants to say something to the man who shot ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mean Little deaf Queer

    A Memoir

    In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Unmaking of Man

    Disability and the Holocaust

    by Simon Duffy ...
    The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction at a very early stage. Doctors argued that people with disabilities lived lives not worth ... Read more

    $6.56 USD

  • Schau mich an! Mein Leben mit Asperger

    Als Ausdruck seiner ehrlichen Zuneigung tätschelt er andere Kinder mit Knüppeln, grinst erleichtert, wenn ein Unbekannter stirbt und hält Halloween mit kleinen Explosionen im Vorgarten kinderfrei: Verhaltensweisen, die immer ein strenges „Schau mich an!“ seiner Eltern zur Folge haben. John Elder Robison gilt in seiner Kindheit als „unnormal“ und wird häufig gemieden. Doch als er sein großes Talent ... Read more

    $12.22 USD

  • Not Fade Away

    A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

    Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered.None of us know what we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Summary & Study Guide - NeuroTribes

    The Legacy of Autism

    by Lee Tang ...
    Series Book 4 - Summary & Study Guide
    Comprehensive View of Autism Past and PresentThis book is a summary of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" by Steve Silberman.In NeuroTribes, award-winning science journalist Steve Silberman changes the societal conversation about autism with a groundbreaking and comprehensive history of this much-talked-about but little-understood condition. The book reveals the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before I Forget

    Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. Well-known for being warm, chatty and down to earth, she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham. For over twelve years she presented GMTV, during which time she interviewed some of the most famous and influential people on the planet, from film stars to royalty, politicians to local heroes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Aster of Ceremonies

    Poems

    Series series Multiverse
    A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of Ceremonies asks what rites we need now and how poetry, astir ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Preemie Voices

    Young men and women born very prematurely describe their lives, challenges and achievements

    The birth of a very premature baby is a shock for parents. The immediate anxiety about whether their infant will survive quickly leads to concerns about their child’s future quality of life. In this inspiring and informative book, young people who were born weighing less than two pounds, three ounces provide candid and personal stories about their lives, challenges and accomplishments. Now in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD