Social issues & processes
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Social issues & processes
Hardcover. Disability is often described in a way that suggests it is a permanent, relatively stable state. This volume argues that the relationship between impairment (physical state) and disability is neither fixed nor permanent but is fluid and not easily predicted. Editor(s): Barnartt, Sharon N. Series Editor(s): Altman, Barbara Mandell; Barnartt, Sharon N. Series: Research in Social Science and Disability. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857243775
- ISBN
- 9780857243775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.30
€ 133.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812281347
- ISBN
- 9780812281347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.92
€ 61.92
Paperback. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137319920
- ISBN
- 9781137319920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Find a Strange and Twisted Shape. 296 pages, 25 black & white halftones. Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ASZ; JFFG. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298279
- ISBN
- 9780230298279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Hardcover. Num Pages: 238 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; VFJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 184 x 20. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604564129
- ISBN
- 9781604564129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.18€ 79.42
€ 114.18
€ 79.42
Editor(s): Laes, Christian. Series: Rewriting Antiquity. Num Pages: 506 pages, 22 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 183 x 254 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1122.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138814851
- ISBN
- 9781138814851
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 339.40
€ 339.40
Hardback. As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: FZG; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501103
- ISBN
- 9781137501103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.67
€ 143.67
Paperback. Explores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts. Editor(s): Ingstad, Benedicte; Whyte, Susan Reynolds. Num Pages: 334 pages, 10 b/w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFFG; JHMP; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246171
- ISBN
- 9780520246171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.71
€ 38.99
€ 28.71
hardcover. Editor(s): Grech, Shaun; Soldatic, Karen. Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice. Num Pages: 613 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 2. Weight in Grams: 1096.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 613
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- SKU
- V9783319424866
- ISBN
- 9783319424866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.12
€ 190.12
Paperback. Examines Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century to reveal how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. This book explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 432 pages, 30 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033812
- ISBN
- 9780472033812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.49
€ 31.99
€ 27.49
Hardcover. An exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book examines a range of literary and visual depictions of disability, focusing particular attention on disability and Nazi culture. It reveals how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability. Num Pages: 480 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFG; JPFQ; PSAK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1012.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472115952
- ISBN
- 9780472115952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.21€ 90.18
€ 100.21
€ 90.18
Hardback. Disability Incarcerated offers an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary scholarship examining the incarceration and segregation of people with disabilities the United States and Canada. Editor(s): Ben-Moshe, Liat; Chapman, Chris; Carey, Allison C.; Carey, A. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; JFFG; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393234
- ISBN
- 9781137393234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.76
€ 123.76
Paperback. Disability Incarcerated offers an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary scholarship examining the incarceration and segregation of people with disabilities the United States and Canada. Editor(s): Ben-Moshe, Liat; Carey, Allison C. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKSN; JKV; JKVP1; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404053
- ISBN
- 9781137404053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 133.25
€ 133.25
Hardback. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFG; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137603432
- ISBN
- 9781137603432
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.84
€ 68.84
Paperback. Disability Politics and Community Care encourages health and welfare professionals and policy makers to start working much more closely with disabled people themselves. He presents practical suggestions for the changes necessary for the proposed reorganisation of service provision which will re-define direct work with disabled people. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG; JKS; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853026522
- ISBN
- 9781853026522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.25
€ 44.25
Paperback. Updated edition of the author's Disability rights and wrongs. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415527613
- ISBN
- 9780415527613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.21
€ 53.21
Hardback. Disability Servitude traces the history of peonage-unpaid, forced labor-by people with disabilities in public and private institutions. Describing the work they performed and lawsuits filed to get paid, it links that history with the continued segregation and exploitation of workers with disabilities that are paid far less than minimum wage. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFG; JHBL; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137540300
- ISBN
- 9781137540300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.81
€ 132.81
Hardcover. The primary aim of this volume is to synthesize the two fields of disability studies and biblical studies. It illustrates how academic or critical biblical scholarship has shown that many texts involving disability in the Bible is much more nuanced than a casual reading or isolated proof texting may indicate. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRLC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338296
- ISBN
- 9780230338296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.36
€ 154.36
Hardcover. Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to explore representations of intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia) in contemporary Spanish films, novels, a graphic novel/comic and public expositions by disabled artists. Series: Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFC; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318702
- ISBN
- 9781846318702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.38
€ 43.38
Hardback. Provides an invaluable introduction to the concerns and controversies surrounding disability and disability studies. The arguments presented in this book have important political and policy implications for both disabled and non--disabled people. Contains contributions from established figures, as well as newcomers to the field. Editor(s): Barnes, Colin; Barton, Len; Oliver, Mike. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745626567
- ISBN
- 9780745626567
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.30
€ 71.30