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  • The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

    by Agatha Christie ...
    This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures by Agatha Christie are compiled from short stories written for The Sketch magazine from March to December 1923. Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a ... Read more

    €0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lectura fácil

    by Cristina Morales ...
    Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con discapacidad intelectual). Pero ante todo son mujeres con una extraordinaria capacidad para enfrentarse a ... Read more

    €10.99

  • Disability and U.S. Politics: Participation, Policy, and Controversy [2 volumes]

    Edited by Dana Lee Baker ...
    More than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, and they are all affected by politics. This two-volume work explores key topics at the heart of disability policy, such as voting, race, gender, age, health care, social security, transportation, abuse, and the environment.Disability policy is no longer an area that can be adequately addressed within major areas of public policy such as ... Read more

    €143.88

  • Disability: A Reference Handbook

    by Michael Rembis ...
    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 from the perspective of disabled people themselves.In the 21st century, disability rights have become a social justice issue that concerns all American citizens—access to safe, affordable, and effective health care, access to ... Read more

    €56.68

  • The Future of Disability Law in India

    A Critical Analysis of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995

    by Jayna Kothari ...
    According to some estimates, there are around 20 to 60 million people with disability in India. For long this invisible minority went without any kind of protection or even legislation aimed at recognizing their basic rights. It was only in 1995 that the government passed the Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Act, which addressed the issues of non-discrimination, right to equal opportunity, and ... Read more

    €40.75

  • Disability Alliances and Allies

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Allison C. Carey, Joan M. Ostrove, Tara Fannon ...
    Series Book 12 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    In Disability Alliances and Allies: Opportunities and Challenges, Allison Carey, Joan Ostrove and Tara Fannon have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts, to offer nuanced analyses of the meaning and practice of being an ally and of building effective alliances that account for the structural, individual, and interpersonal challenges involved in amplifying disabled voices and ... Read more

    €83.99

  • GenX What's Your Damage? A Medical Mystery Within a Broken System

    by Autumn Mist ...
    What else could I do? I defeated my first monster by age eleven. I did what it took to get safe, buried that trauma and I kept going. I did not know that the terror I'd escaped, planted a bomb in my nervous system. How could I know?This is the true story of how I found myself trapped in a medical mystery, with the answers to my fate buried in my own mind. It's the true story of how I went to the ... Read more

    €5.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Defining the Boundaries of Disability

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Licia Carlson, Matthew C. Murray ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology.By focusing on ... Read more

    €50.41

  • Coercive Care

    Rights, Law and Policy

    Edited by Bernadette Mcsherry, Ian Freckelton ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also having a major impact on thinking about the issue. This edited volume explores the concept of ‘coercive care’ in relation to individuals such as those with severe mental illnesses, those with intellectual and cognitive ... Read more

    €64.16

  • Assisted Reproduction, Discrimination, and the Law

    by Michelle Weldon-Johns ...
    The numbers of women undergoing Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) treatments have risen steadily, yet they remain largely outside the scope of equality and employment law protection while undergoing treatment. Assisted Reproduction, Discrimination, and the Law examines this gap in UK law, with reference to EU law as appropriate, and argues that new conceptions of equality are necessary. ... Read more

    €29.78

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, David Serlin ...
    Series Book 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Read more

    €19.09

  • Disability and Shopping

    Customers, Markets and the State

    by Ieva Eskytė ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and civil society. It discusses how the interaction between the three stakeholders should be shaped at aiming to decrease inequality and marginalisation.Shopping is a part of everyday modern life and yet businesses struggle to adequately meet ... Read more

    €50.41

  • Everyday Law for Individuals with Disabilities

    by Ruth Colker, Adam A. Milani ...
    If you are an individual with a disability and believe you have been discriminated against, it is often hard to find a lawyer to help remedy your situation. Accordingly, 'self-help' may often be your most, or your only, viable strategy. But how to proceed? This book serves as a badly needed practical guide to disability discrimination law. Covering a wide range of issues faced by individuals with ... Read more

    €53.85

  • Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England

    Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

    by Alice Equestri ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter makers, or also as ludicrous metaphorical embodiments of human failures. Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500–1640 pays full attention to the intellectual difference of fools, rather than just their performativity: what ... Read more

    €53.85

  • Disability, Care and Family Law

    Edited by Beverley Clough, Jonathan Herring ...
    This book explores the series of issues that emerge at the intersection of disability, care and family law.Disability studies is an area of increasing academic interest. In addition to a subject in its own right, there has been growing concern to ensure that mainstream subjects diversify and include marginalised voices, including those of disabled people. Family law in modern times is often based ... Read more

    €50.41

  • Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives

    Finding a Voice of Their Own

    by Ravi Malhotra, Morgan Rowe ...
    Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses ... Read more

    €71.04

  • Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts

    A Modern Look

    by Rebecca C. Morgan Morgan, Robert B. Fleming Jr., Bryn Poland ...
    Written by Clifton B. Kruse, Jr., a well-known expert in the fields of estate planning and elder law, this updated edition of Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts explains the effect that governmental legislation has had on trust law and guides you through the maze of federal laws that affect planning for the elderly and disabled. Focusing on the effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of ... Read more

    €100.99

  • L'accompagnement des agents en situation de handicap au cours de leur vie professionnelle

    by FIPHFP Conseil scientifique ...
    La notion d'accompagnement s'entend aujourd'hui dans une acception large et s'applique à une grande diversité de situations concrètes. La transposition au monde du travail des concepts d'accompagnement et de situations de handicap renvoie, dans sa mise en œuvre, à des référentiels et des pratiques identifiés. Est-on certain pour autant d'appréhender les mesures qui permettent aux personnes en ... Read more

    €5.99

  • Representing People With Dementia

    A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers

    Edited by Elizabeth Kelley ...
    The criminal justice system as a whole is not the place for someone with dementia. Jail, or worse, prison, would be absolute torture. This book is an attempt to help those who, because of dementia, are fragile, bewildered, and vulnerable – and to give their attorneys the tools to obtain a fair and just resolution of their case.Table of Contents:ForewordIntroductionWhat Is Dementia? Dr. Marc ... Read more

    €61.89

  • Scrounger

    by Athena Stevens ...
    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

    €12.56

  • Untapped Talent

    A Practical Guide for Hiring and Retaining Neurodivergent Staff

    by Aron Mercer, Dr Damian Mellifont, PhD, Dr Jennifer Smith-Merry, PhD ...
    Series series Disability Studies
    How can employers develop their hiring processes for neurodivergent people and best support people with diverse neurotypes to thrive in the workplace?Drawing on academic research and professional and lived experiences, Untapped Talent offers strategies for managers and allies to create a more inclusive workplace that empowers neurodivergent people with conditions including autism, ADHD, and ... Read more

    €23.19

  • DAS HANDBUCH FÜR SCHLAGANFALL-ÜBERLEBENDE

    by Brian Maram ...
    Ihr unverzichtbarer Begleiter auf Ihrem PflegewegJeden Tag wird jemand wie du über Nacht zum Betreuer.Keine Warnung. Keine Vorbereitung. Nur du, dein geliebter Mensch – und tausend Fragen, die in deinem Kopf widerhallen:Mache ich das richtig? Was ist, wenn ich einen Fehler mache? Wie fange ich überhaupt an?Du bist nicht allein mit diesem Gefühl der Überforderung.Die schlaflosen Nächte, in denen du ... Read more

    €5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins

    Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA

    by Shoumita Dasgupta ...
    A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference.Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can’t tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on ... Read more

    Was €28.94 Now €25.42

  • 100 idées pour transformer l'offre de service dans le secteur du handicap

    Autodétermination, inclusion sociale, accompagnement, nouveaux métiers et autres modèles…

    by François Bernard ...
    Series series 100 Idées pour
    Droit de vivre dans la société et de s’y insérer, liberté de choix, pleine intégration et participation à la société ; choisir son lieu de résidence, où et avec qui elles vont vivre, ne pas être obligées de vivre dans un milieu de vie particulier ; avoir accès à une gamme de services à domicile ou en établissement, ne pas être isolées ou victimes de ségrégation... Voilà en substance ce que nous ... Read more

    €11.99