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Deaf identities in the making
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Jan-Kåre Breivik |
viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm |
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House Rules
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Rachel Sontag |
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was a well-respected, suburban physician. But questioning his authority led to brutal figh… |
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No sientan lástima por Paul
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Bernard Wolf |
Photographs and simple text capture two weeks in the life of a handicapped boy learning to live successfully in a world made for people without handicaps. |
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The rules of the tunnel
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Ned Zeman |
"A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shoc… |
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A Leg to Stand on
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Oliver Sacks |
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books *Awakenings*, *An Anthropologist on Mars* and the bestselling *The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat* have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment… |
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Living l'Arche
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Kevin S. Reimer |
Living L'Arche explores the origins and characteristics of compassionate love in those who care for the disabled. It shows that authentic compassion is only distantly related to individual talent or … |
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Jim Abbott against all odds
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Ellen Emerson White |
A biography of the one-handed pitcher for the California Angels baseball team. |
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My friend Leslie
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Maxine B. Rosenberg |
Presents a multi-handicapped kindergarten child, who is well-accepted by her classmates, in various situations within the school setting. |
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Second ascent
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Alison Osius |
Describes how a talented rock climber survived a double amputation at seventeen to return to his chosen sport. |
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Don't worry, he won't get far on foot
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John Callahan |
Cartoonist John Callahan's dark (but still inspiring) memoir of his troubled family history, and his battles to recover from alcoholism and to function in life as a quadrapalegic. |
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Seize the Day
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Tanni Grey-Thompson |
272p. : 18cm |
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