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| Author | : Lew Shaver |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2003-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0595292542 |
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I was sitting in a small upstairs room attempting to write this narrative of my education in disability awareness. For over 30 years I have been involved in working with individuals with disabilities as a coach and administrator on the intercollegiate, national and international levels. When I started this journey, at a small, Midwestern University, I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. Now that I have traveled this educational path I have come to realize that it may have been one of the most important learning experiences of my life, an experience I feel needs to be shared. In putting this narrative together, one very real issue I struggled with was how to deal with the present climate of political correctness. My decision was to tell the stories as I remember them, in the language as I remember. To do differently would change and compromise the actual experience. Thus, this is a sharing of feelings and experiences that a coach and his athletes spent in timeless hours in a gym practicing and competing, of thousands of miles traveled throughout the United States and beyond, and days and nights spent together in laughter and frustration.
| Author | : Ronald Berger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2010-08-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135890765 |
Download Hoop Dreams on Wheels Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology of disability and disability sports. It documents the development and evolution of the basketball program and tells the individual life stories of the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and institutional experiences that influenced their agentive actions and that helped them achieve success in wheelchair sports. It also examines divisions within the disability community that reveal both empowering and disempowering aspects of competitive wheelchair athletics, and it explores some of the complexities and dilemmas of disability identity in contemporary society. The book is intended to be read by a general audience as well as by students in college courses on disability, sports, social problems, deviance, medical sociology and anthropology, and introductory sociology. It also will be of interest to scholars in the sociology of disability, sociology of sports, and medical humanities, as well as life-history researchers and professionals in the fields of physical education, therapeutic recreation, and rehabilitative counseling.
| Author | : Melvin Juette |
| Publisher | : Temple University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2008-03-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1592134769 |
Download Wheelchair Warrior Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a shooting was "both the worst and best thing that happened" to him. This memoir re-constructs the defining moments of his life with the assistance of sociologist Ronald Berger. It is bracketed by Berger's introduction and conclusion, which places this narrative in proper sociological context.
| Author | : Grant Jarrett |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2017-05-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1943006156 |
Download The Half-Life of Remorse Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
When two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie, Indiana, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic, crude and uneducated, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic, and Sam, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager―the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together, but redemption commands a high price, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness.
| Author | : Rui Li |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2012-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0231531044 |
Download Trees Without Wind Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider untouched by the village's disease. "Wedded" to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution. The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives' factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo's explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event.
| Author | : Steven Erikson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 931 |
| Release | : 2011-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765310104 |
Download The Crippled God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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| Author | : Donald Davis |
| Publisher | : Blair |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Authors, American |
| ISBN | : 9780895876676 |
Download Cripple Joe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Donald Davis has remarked that he "didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them" from a family of traditional storytellers that has lived on the same western North Carolina land since 1781. Considered by many to be the father of family tales, Donald turns the focus of his newest collection on his own father, Joe.As Donald reveals in the opening story, when he was 28, he mistakenly thought his father had died. Until learning of the mistake, he lamented that he'd been "too young and immature to know to ask for the stories that would have filled out his life." Given a "second chance," Donald asked those questions for the next 22 years. In this collection of 20 tender and often humorous stories--including one that tells how the elder Davis came to be called "Cripple Joe"--he shares the lessons he learned from his father. The late Wilma Dykeman wrote in an article for the New York Times, "I could have listened all morning to Donald Davis. . . . His stories often left listeners limp with laughter at the same time they struggled with a lump in the throat." If you are already a Donald Davis fan, here's his latest offering. If you have yet to discover him, here's your chance to see what all the excitement is about.
| Author | : Alice Wong |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2020-06-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1984899422 |
Download Disability Visibility Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
| Author | : Samuel Annesley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 794 |
| Release | : 1674 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Supplement to the Morning-exercise at Cripple-gate Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
| Author | : Maquel A. Jacob |
| Publisher | : MAJart Works LLC |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2020-04-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Download Crippled Earth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The alien enemy launches the first strike ahead of schedule, starting a bloody, drawn out war. Humans, Karysilans and rogue Relliants join forces to defend Earth. The outcome isn’t looking in their favor. Out of fear and desperation, all the players initiate their own agendas while the facilities seal themselves off; refusing to engage in the fight, infuriating Captain Darnizva. He’s tried to unite humanity for half a century and now realizes it was all for nothing. With no word of reinforcements from his home planet, Mankind’s extinction seems to be imminent.
