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Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible

Author : J. David Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313355398
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Ignored, Shunned, and Invisible written by J. David Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, segregation and social isolation have been recurring responses to people considered defective or deficient in some way. And it is in the midst of such a society that special educator J. David Smith wrote this book, which presents critical historical and contemporary issues in mental retardation. Told through gripping vignettes and interwoven with the story of the life of John Lovelace, a man labeled mentally retarded as a child then institutionalized and sterilized, this gripping text will make all readers reconsider not only our social policies and practices, but also our personal actions, in relation to people with mental retardation. Topics covered here include an examination of ways people have been misidentified as having disabilities, then needlessly warehoused in institutions. Coupled with the tragic story of John Lovelace, this book is one that will be long remembered by its readers, and will ideally spur them to action. This book offers new directions for the field of mental retardation, including conceptual and terminology changes regarding intellectual disabilities, and new thinking about the people whose lives have been altered by the term and the concept. Insights from parents, friends, teachers, and varied special education experts are included, as is the strong view of author Smith, who befriended Lovelace. He was often ignored, regularly avoided and treated as less than a person, as invisible, explains Smith. And Lovelace is the metaphorical island to which each chapter here returns, a vivid example of the denial of freedom and dignity to people who bear an intellectually inferior label. In the end, we see how society can promote values that inspire and challenge us to create humane and just treatment for all, or we can just look the other way when facing disturbing human needs.

Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause

Author : William D. Araiza
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479859702
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause written by William D. Araiza and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, Congress’s power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “the equal protection of the laws” has presented judges and scholars with a puzzle. What does it mean for Congress to “enforce” such a wide-ranging, open-ended provision when the Supreme Court has insisted on its own superiority in interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment? In Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause, William D. Araiza offers a unique understanding of Congress’s enforcement power and its relationship to the Court’s claim to supremacy when interpreting the Constitution. Drawing on the history of American thinking about equality in the decades before and after the Civil War, Araiza argues that congressional enforcement and judicial supremacy can co-exist, but only if the Court limits its role to ensuring that enforcement legislation reasonably promotes the core meaning of the Equal Protection Clause. Much of the Court’s equal protection jurisprudence stops short of stating such core meaning, thus leaving Congress free (subject to appropriate judicial checks) to enforce the full scope of the constitutional guarantee. Araiza’s thesis reconciles the Supreme Court’s ultimate role in interpreting the Constitution with Congress’s superior capacity to transform the Fourteenth Amendment’s majestic principles into living reality. The Fourteenth Amendment’s Enforcement Clause raises difficult issues of separation of powers, federalism, and constitutional rights. Araiza illuminates each of these in this scholarly, timely work that is both intellectually rigorous but also accessible to non-specialist readers.

Disability Politics and Theory, Revised and Expanded Edition

Author : A.J. Withers
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773636642
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Disability Politics and Theory, Revised and Expanded Edition written by A.J. Withers and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and politics: eugenics, medicalization, rehabilitation, charity, rights and social and disability justice. A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people’s oppression. Critiquing the currently dominant social model of disability, this book offers an alternative. The radical framework Withers puts forward draws from schools of radical thought, particularly feminism and critical race theory, to emphasize the role of interlocking oppressions in the marginalization of disabled people and the importance of addressing disability both independently and in conjunction with other oppressions. Intertwining theoretical and historical analysis with personal experience, this book is a poignant portrayal of disabled people in Canada and the U.S. — and a call for social and economic justice. This revised and expanded edition includes a new chapter on the rehabilitation model, expands the discussion of eugenics, and adds the context of the growth of the disability justice movement, Black Lives Matter, calls for defunding the police, decolonial and Indigenous land protection struggles, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Is God Invisible?

Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108576311
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Is God Invisible? written by Charles Taliaferro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans promote aesthetic personalism by examining three domains of aesthetics - the philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of art - through the lens of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, theistic Hinduism, and the all-seeing Compassionate Buddha. These religious traditions assume an inclusive, overarching God's eye, or ideal point of view, that can create an emancipatory appreciation of beauty and goodness. This appreciation also recognizes the reality and value of the aesthetic experience of persons and deepens the experience of art works. The authors also explore and contrast the invisibility of persons and God. The belief that God or the sacred is invisible does not mean God or the sacred cannot be experienced through visual and other sensory or unique modes. Conversely, the assumption that human persons are thoroughly visible, or observable in all respects, ignores how racism and other forms of bias render persons invisible to others.

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined

Author : Sabrina Reed
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 1772840122
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Lives Lived, Lives Imagined written by Sabrina Reed and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews’s books have earned her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature. In this first monograph on Toews’s work, Sabrina Reed examines the interplay of trauma and resilience in the author’s fiction. Reed skillfully demonstrates how Toews situates resilience across key themes, including: the home as both a source of trauma and an inspiration for resilient action; the road trip as a search for resolution and redemption; and the reframing of the Mennonite diaspora as an escape from patriarchal oppression. The deaths by suicide of Toews’s father and sister stand out as the most shocking and tragic of the author’s biographical details, and Reed explores Toews’s use of autofiction as a reparative gesture in the face of this trauma. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to both scholars and devotees of Toews’s work, Lives Lived, Lives Imagined is a timely examination of Toews’s oeuvre and a celebration of fiction’s ability to simultaneously embody compassion and anger, joy and sadness, and to brave the personal and communal oppressions of politics, religion, family, society, and mental illness.

Hopeless Aromantic

Author : Samantha Rendle
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1839973684
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Hopeless Aromantic written by Samantha Rendle and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've picked up this book, the chances are you have some doubts about your Happiness 101 assignment sheet. True love; candlelit dinners; 2.1 children; joint bank accounts - The One? It might make you want to a run a mile - or you might just have a few big questions. Aromanticism is defined as experiencing little to no romantic attraction to others. Sam Rendle, onetime aromantic asexual, sometime aroaceflux, and present-day label unspecified, knows a thing or two about the aro spectrum - and she has some answers for you. You'll explore what aromanticism is, how aromantic people form relationships, how to know if you're aromantic and deal with internalised shame and societal stigma. With a history of aromantic representation, guidance on queerplatonic relationships, and testimony from your worldwide aro family - this is the affirmatory aro companion to have in your back pocket.

Navy Justice

Author : Geri Krotow
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460385845
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Navy Justice written by Geri Krotow and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undercover lover A quiet, civilian life on Whidbey Island sounded great to navy lawyer Joy Alexander. But when navy SEAL-turned-FBI agent Brad Iverson shows up on her doorstep bruised and bleeding, she realizes it's not so easy to leave the past behind. Even harder to forget are the feelings she once had for Brad. Brad's on an undercover operation, one that's targeting potential terrorists…and unintentionally bringing danger to Joy. They'll have to work together again, except this time it's not only justice they're after—it's survival. If they make it that far, they won't waste a second chance at love.

Safe in Noah's Arms

Author : Mary Sullivan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460385853
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Safe in Noah's Arms written by Mary Sullivan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community service never looked so good Monica Accord knows trends, not tractors…fashion, not fertilizer. But she's stuck working on Noah Cameron's farm after one mistake lands her with community service. Monica remembers Noah from high school, but she definitely never knew about the crush he had on her. Now it just feels as if she's some bothersome city slicker. Yet she soon realizes there's more growing between her and Noah than just crops—a lot more. As long as the revelation of a family secret doesn't ruin their chance of a lifetime…

African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies

Author : Kathomi Gatwiri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981130565X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies written by Kathomi Gatwiri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the “hidden disease” of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how “leaking black female bodies” are constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most profound gender-related health issue – an experience of shame, taboo and abjection with severe implications for women’s wellbeing, health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and knowledge.

Out of the Forest

Author : Gregory Smith
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 014378529X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Forest written by Gregory Smith and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a man turn his back on society? What makes him return? For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus. Others feared he was a more sinister figure. The truth was that he was neither miraculous nor malevolent, but he was, most certainly, gifted. And when he finally emerged from the forest, emaciated and close to death, he was determined to reclaim his real name and ‘give society another chance’. Today, Dr Gregory Peel Smith, who left school at the age of fourteen, has a PhD and teaches in the Social Sciences at university. His profoundly touching and uplifting memoir is at once a unique insight into how far off track a life can go and powerful reminder that we can all find our way back if we pause for a moment in the heart of the forest.

Things Not Seen

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200456
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Things Not Seen written by Andrew Clements and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.

Evidence-Based Practice with Emotionally Troubled Children and Adolescents

Author : Morley D. Glicken
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080923062
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Evidence-Based Practice with Emotionally Troubled Children and Adolescents written by Morley D. Glicken and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on evidence-based practice with children and adolescents focuses on best evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adolescents with a range of emotional problems including ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Asperger's Syndrome; substance abuse; loneliness and social isolation; school related problems including underachievement; sexual acting out; Oppositional Defiant and Conduct Disorders; Childhood Schizophrenia; gender issues; prolonged grief; school violence; cyber bullying; gang involvement, and a number of other problems experienced by children and adolescents. The psychosocial interventions discussed in the book provide practitioners and educators with a range of effective treatments that serve as an alternative to the use of unproven medications with unknown but potentially harmful side effects. Interesting case studies demonstrating the use of evidence-based practice with a number of common childhood disorders and integrative questions at the end of each chapter make this book uniquely helpful to graduate and undergraduate courses in social work, counseling, psychology, guidance, behavioral classroom teaching, and psychiatric nursing. - Fully covers assessment, diagnosis & treatment of children and adolescents, focusing on evidence-based practices - Offers detailed how-to explanation of practical evidence-based treatment techniques - Cites numerous case studies and provides integrative questions at the end of each chapter - Material related to diversity (including race, ethnicity, gender and social class) integrated into each chapter

Uncurating Sound

Author : Salomé Voegelin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345435
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Uncurating Sound written by Salomé Voegelin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncurating Sound performs, across five chapters, a deliberation between art, politics, knowledge and normativity. It foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment's desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art. It takes from curation the notion of care and thinks it through purposeful inefficiency as resistance: going sideways and another way. Thus it moves curation through the double negative of not not to “uncuration”: untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution. Looking at Kara Walker's work, the book invites the performance of the curatorial via indivisible connections and processes. Reading Kathy Acker and Adrian Piper it speculates on how the body brings us to knowledge beyond the ordinary. Playing Kate Carr and Ellen Fullman it re-examines Modernism's colonial ideology, and materialises the vibrational presence of a plural sense. Listening to Marguerite Humeau and Manon de Boer it avoids theory but agitates a direct knowing from voice and hands, and feet and ears that disorder hegemonic knowledge strands in favour of local, tacit, feminist and contingent knowledges that demand like Zanele Muholi's photographs, an ethical engagement with the work/world.

How to Stop Negative Thoughts

Author : M. Usman
Publisher : Mendon Cottage Books
ISBN 13 : 1311428623
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book How to Stop Negative Thoughts written by M. Usman and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Insight on Unconstructive Thoughts Impact of Negative Thoughts on Your Life Mental Strength and the role it plays in Alleviating Negative Thinking Exercising the power of positive thinking Dealing with Negative Thoughts Overcoming Negative Thoughts Conclusion Publisher Introduction I want to thank you for downloading the book, “How to Stop Negative Thoughts.” This book will act as your best guide to dealing with constant negative thoughts through the effective use of mental strength; it contains proven strategies aimed at this particular goal. The human conscience as you know actually plays a major role in how we think as it has the collections of certain attributes that enable one to persevere through challenging and also difficult situations and enables us to go through such hurdles with confidence. Yes, dealing with this issue is quite possible because all it takes is a little training on how to view things in a more healthy and positive manner. Everything you need to know including a deeper understanding of mental strength, its benefits, and how to attain it are all well explained in this book. There is actually so much more to every chapter and the author assures you that it will be an answer to most if not all your questions. We all struggle with different kinds of situations in life and at times we give up because of the burden that is brought about by indifferent thoughts, making the situation to be too heavy. You are encouraged today that there is always a way out and that there is also a different approach to your burden which can make things much better. The good thing about the concepts discussed in this book is that you don’t have to be born with these abilities, and they also don’t have to be learnt at a young age for one to be able to use them to deal with different problems. One can start today to try and be mentally strong and it will still be effective in helping you to accept your shortcomings and deal with your issues. Life isn't easy but those who want to effectively manage their concerns understand what it means to instill rational strategies in all their endeavors by being able have more focus, confidence, and also belief in their selves. This book will open you up to the world of positivity and most importantly take you through the steps of how to effectively achieve it. It has been written in an interesting, fun, and also easy to understand way giving you an opportunity to understand all that is laid out for you. Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

Without a Map

Author : Meredith Hall
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807016314
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Without a Map written by Meredith Hall and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national best-selling memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family "This sobering portrayal of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is a testament to the importance of understanding and even forgiving the people who . . . have made us who we are” —O, The Oprah Magazine A New York Times Bestseller, now with an epilogue from the author Meredith Hall’s moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood. She returns to New England and stitches together a life that encircles her silenced and invisible grief. Her lost son tracks her down when he turns twenty-one, and Hall learns that he grew up in gritty poverty with an abusive father in her own father’s hometown. Their reunion is tender, turbulent, and ultimately redemptive. Hall’s parents never ask for her forgiveness, yet as they age, she offers them her love. Here, loss and betrayal evolve into compassion, and compassion into wisdom.

Things Not Seen

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142400769
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Things Not Seen written by Andrew Clements and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.

Trials and Tribulations

Author : Dr. Prajwal Kumar Domalapalli
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482875314
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Trials and Tribulations written by Dr. Prajwal Kumar Domalapalli and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials and Tribulations is presented as a congeries of poems describing the various bridges the writer has had to cross, some of which he had to burn after crossing the same. It is not all cynical. Some are reassuring; some proclaim that, despite any ongoing adversity, there is always time for hope and love. C.S. Lewis described love as four typesStorgr, the empathy form; Phillia, the friend bond; Eros, the erotic bond; and Agape, the unconditional love. The writer tries to amalgamate Lewiss attempt in finding and/or categorizing the definition of love, which the writer believes is an onerous task. The aim of this book isnt simply to put one out containing random/arbitrary assortment of poems just so a book is out there. These are personal experiences seen from a third eye-view. The writer implores the readers to understand their partner (or future partner), platonic or romantic, to strive to accept faults with equal piety that they would attempt to impress or love. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied (Jane Austen). So the writer hopes that, despite the adventitiousness and diversity in this set of poems, you find love, hope, and peace.