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Author : Kent Gustavson
Publisher : Blooming Twig Books
ISBN 13 : 193391887X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Blind But Now I See written by Kent Gustavson and published by Blooming Twig Books. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Leona Godin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 198489840X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book There Plant Eyes written by M. Leona Godin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New Yorker There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history. A genre-defying work, There Plant Eyes reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
Author : Margaret Davidson
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780812498226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Louis Braille written by Margaret Davidson and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blinded at the age of 3, Louis Braille developed a superb memory that enabled him to do well in school. But that wasn't enough--Louis wanted to read. Finding the alphabet impractical, he invented the raised dot alphabet, Braille, now used throughout the world.
Author : A.F. Brady
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474057640
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Blind written by A.F. Brady and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Taut and intelligent’ Prima ‘Utterly addictive’ Lisa Hall
Author : James Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind written by James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wilson (Blind poet and biographer.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind written by James Wilson (Blind poet and biographer.) and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wilson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022098978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind written by James Wilson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Biography of the Blind', James Wilson tells the stirring stories of several individuals who have overcome blindness to achieve great things. Wilson's writing celebrates the resilience and determination of the human spirit, showing us that disability need not be a barrier to success. This book is both inspiring and informative, a valuable resource for anyone interested in disability studies or the psychology of success. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James Diedrick
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939321
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Mathilde Blind written by James Diedrick and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), a freethinking radical feminist. Born to politically radical parents, Blind had, by the time she was thirty, become a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of writers, painters, and critics, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, William Michael Rossetti, and Richard Garnett. By the 1880s she had become widely recognized for a body of writing that engaged contemporary issues such as the Woman Question, the forced eviction of Scottish tenant farmers in the Highland Clearances, and Darwin’s evolutionary theory. She subsequently emerged as a prominent voice and leader among New Woman writers at the end of the century, including Mona Caird, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and Katharine Tynan. She also developed important associations with leading male decadent writers of the fin de siècle, most notably, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons. Despite her extensive contributions to Victorian debates on aesthetics, religion, nationhood, imperialism, gender, and sexuality, however, Blind has yet to receive the prominence she deserves in studies of the period. As the first full-length biography of this trailblazing woman of letters, Mathilde Blind underscores the importance of her poetry and her critical writings (her work on Shelley, biographies of George Eliot and Madame Roland, and her translations of Strauss and Bashkirtseff) for the literature and culture of the fin de siècle.
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551994941
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Blind Assassin written by Margaret Atwood and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully guarded Chase family secrets. Among these is “The Blind Assassin,” a novel that earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, it was a pulp fantasy improvised by two unnamed lovers who meet secretly in rented rooms and seedy cafés. As this novel-within-a-novel twists and turns through love and jealousy, self-sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real narrative, as both move closer to war and catastrophe. Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning sensation combines elements of gothic drama, romantic suspense, and science fiction fantasy in a spellbinding tale.
Author : Helen Keller
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781387900695
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Story of My Life: The Autobiography of the First Deaf-Blind Person to Earn a University Degree written by Helen Keller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Keller's superb autobiography takes us through the childhood and early life of a woman who was to become one of the United States most celebrated activists and lecturers. First published in 1903, Keller's early memoirs reveal her upbringing which was very much in the spirit of American tradition. Being both deaf and blind, Keller's astounding rise to a position of great prominence and fame in society gave inspiration to countless individuals suffering from sensory disabilities. Keller details her childhood and the character of her close family members. Both of her parents receive detailed descriptions; her father, a former Confederate officer, demonstrated to Keller the importance of publicity at an early age by editing the North Alabamian newspaper. Helen's training in sign language enabled her to communicate, and Keller was duly dispatched to a specialist doctor who referred her to the young Anne Sullivan, who became a lifelong friend and mentor to the young Keller.
Author : Jason Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061979945
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book A Sense of the World written by Jason Roberts and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-12-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored," triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured -- until now. A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler's uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.
Author : James Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind written by James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind: Or, Lives of Such as Have Distinguished Themselves as Poets, Philosophers, Artists, Etc written by James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind, Or, The Lives of Such as Have Distinguished Themselves as Poets, Philosophers, Artists, Etc written by James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haben Girma
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1538728710
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Haben written by Haben Girma and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the world in search of the secret to belonging. She explored numerous fascinating places, including Mali, where she helped build a school under the scorching Saharan sun. Her many adventures over the years range from the hair-raising to the hilarious. Haben defines disability as an opportunity for innovation. She learned non-visual techniques for everything from dancing salsa to handling an electric saw. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman's determination to find the keys to connection. "This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine "A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times ** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine "Book of the Month" Pick ** A Publishers Weekly Bestseller **
Author : James Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Blind written by James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilson James 1779-1845
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021020963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Biography Of The Blind written by Wilson James 1779-1845 and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography celebrates the lives of blind poets, philosophers, and artists from throughout history. James Wilson's work includes profiles of Homer, Milton, and Beethoven, as well as lesser-known figures such as John Kitto and Julia Brace. The book is a testament to the resilience and creativity of those who have overcome blindness to achieve greatness. This work is an inspiration to readers of all backgrounds and abilities. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
