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  • The Legacies of Institutionalisation

    Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community

    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education

    The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District

    Series series Disability Histories
    In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Can't Swim, But I Haven't Drowned Yet Notes From a Disability Rights Activist

    In I Can't Swim But I Haven't Drowned Yet, Melissa Marshall chronicles the history of the disability rights movement though her lifetime of disability rights activism. Follow her through high school where she is denied an education at the same time that equal education for disabled people became federal law; onto college where she was among the first, if not the first person to major in disability ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Allies and Obstacles

    Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

    Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Law and Neurodiversity

    Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States

    As social perceptions of diversity become more nuanced, awareness of the prevalence of autism has grown. But how do we accommodate natural human neurodiversity within the juvenile justice system? And what are the consequences for young people?Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism research can inform and improve juvenile justice policies in Canada and the United States. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Disability, Globalization and Human Rights

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the focus on disability inclusion has become increasingly important in the discourse of international and national efforts for "leaving no one behind", the motto of the SDGs. This ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Disability, Criminal Justice and Law

    Reconsidering Court Diversion

    by Linda Steele ...
    Series series Social Justice
    Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law’s complicity in the debilitation of disabled people.In a post-deinstitutionalisation era, diverting disabled people from criminal justice systems and into mental health and disability services is considered therapeutic, humane and socially just. Yet, by drawing on Foucauldian theory of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability

    Edited by Alice Hall ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability brings together some of the most influential and important contemporary perspectives in this growing field. The book traces the history of the field and locates literary disability studies in the wider context of activism and theory. It introduces debates about definitions of disability and explores intersectional approaches in which disability ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Spaces of Care

    The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and professional identities.Evolving from a project coordinated by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, Spaces of Care brings together leading international scholars to articulate what we may consider ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Navigating Social Security Disability Programs

    A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates

    This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.This text aims to bring clarity to medical and psychological health care providers so they better understand the importance of their role ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Autism and the Police

    Practical Advice for Officers and Other First Responders

    by Andrew Buchan ...
    This is a practical guide for police officers and other first responders written by an autistic retired policeman, designed to demystify autistic behaviours and improve the treatment of autistic people caught up in the criminal justice system. Police officers and other emergency services are the first to arrive at the scene of an incident and it is vital they can recognise autistic behaviours and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Social Security: The New Rules, Essentials & Maximizing Your Social Security, Retirement, Medicare, Pensions & Benefits Explained In One Place

    by Peter Allen ...
    Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated.Social Security is vital to many people's retirement plans. Yet is so shrouded in uncertainty.There are so many different rules, income limitations, age requirements, cut-offs, and so on that it can drive a person mad.Your choices influence the size of your Social Security checks and making mistakes could accidentally shrink them.Understanding ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scrounger

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Everyone likes to make speculations about Scrounger. Scrounger doesn't care. A successful online personality, she's got more power from her bedroom than anyone on the Southwark estates could dream of. She's educated, she's ballsy, Scrounger is a woman who knows how to make change happen. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ableism at Work

    Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment

    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US all have one thing in common: regulatory frameworks which treat workers with psychosocial disabilities less favorably than workers with either physical or sensory disabilities. Ableism at Work is a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Disability Hate Speech

    Social, Cultural and Political Contexts

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in academic, legal, political, and cultural analyses of the broader problem of hate speech. Its unique personal ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • International and European Disability Law and Policy

    Text, Cases and Materials

    Series series Law in Context
    In this first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, Broderick and Ferri analyse the interaction between different legal systems and sources. Guided by the global legal standards of the CRPD, students are equipped with the necessary background on disability, and are given a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy frameworks on disability. The narrative maintains ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Disability Rights, Benefits, and Support Services Sourcebook, 1st Ed.

    Provides an overview of rights and laws enacted to protect and accommodate people with disabilities and those interested in learning more about disability and the processes required to apply for these benefits, disability compensation benefits for veterans, information on how to find government and local disability programs and services, and other resources. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Disabled Church

    Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship

    How do communities consent to difference? How do they recognize and create the space and time necessary for the differences and disabilities of those who constitute them? Christian congregations often make assumptions about the shared abilities, practices, and experiences that are necessary for communal worship. The author of this provocative new book takes a hard look at these assumptions through ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The David Hume Collection

    David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1738), ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behindertenrecht

    Edited by Hoffmann ...
    Erlaß über die Stiftung der Silbermedaille für den Behindertensport Gesetz über die Conterganstiftung für behinderte Menschen (Conterganstiftungsgesetz - ContStifG) Gesetz über die interne Teilung beamtenversorgungsrechtlicher Ansprüche von Bundesbeamtinnen und Bundesbeamten im Versorgungsausgleich (Bundesversorgungsteilungsgesetz - BVersTG) Gesetz über die unentgeltliche Beförderung ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betreuungsrecht

    Edited by Hoffmann ...
    Einführungsgesetz zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuche Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) Einführungsgesetz zum Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz (GVG) Gesetz über die Vergütung von Vormündern und Betreuern (Vormünder- und Betreuervergütungsgesetz - VBVG) Gesetz über die Wahrnehmung behördlicher Aufgaben bei der Betreuung Volljähriger (Betreuungsbehördengesetz - BtBG) Gesetz über Finanzhilfen ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disability

    A Reference Handbook

    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disability-related issues and exploring the perspectives of disabled people.Disability has become a human rights and social justice issue that should concern all Americans. Access to safe, affordable, and effective health care, access to safe and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Such a Pretty Girl

    A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

    A memoir by a disability rights activistSuch a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law

    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Education is a fundamental human right that is recognised as essential for the attainment of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. It was not until 2006, on the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), that the right to inclusive education was codified. This volume fills a major gap in the literature on the right of disabled people to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD