**This New York Times–bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.“Beautifully told, humanizing, important.”—The New York Times Book Review“Breathtaking.”—The Boston Globe“Epic and often shocking.”—Chicago TribuneWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NONFICTION AND THE CALIFORNIA BOOK...

Qu’est-ce que l’autisme? Un trouble du développement, un handicap mental ou une différence cognitive naturelle, souvent apparentée à certaines formes de génie? Tout cela à la fois, et bien davantage encore. En dévoilant l’histoire de l'autisme, le journaliste d’investigation Steve Silberman offre un récit inédit et captivant. On y découvre notamment que Leo Kanner et Hans Asperger, les deux premiers cliniciens à avoir défini la notion d’autisme dans les années 1940, l’ont fait de manières ...

Che cos’è l’autismo? Un devastante disturbo dello sviluppo, una disabilità che dura tutta la vita o una forma di divergenza cognitiva presente in natura e vicina al genio? In realtà è tutto questo e altro ancora: l’autismo è un altro modo di essere umani e il futuro della nostra società dipende dalla percezione che ne abbiamo. Questo è un libro di svolta, oltre che una lettura avvincente, affascinante e magistralmente scritta. Riallacciandosi al suo rivoluzionario articolo The Geek Syndrom...

Hoy en día conocemos una extensa variedad de formas en que el cerebro humano puede procesar, recopilar y expresar información. Tenemos un nombre para ello: neurodivergencia. Hace pocos años, cuando este término no existía, ser diferente implicaba ser alienado, rechazado, incomprendido o incluso temido. En este libro, Steve Silberman nos muestra cómo la neurodivergencia, en especial el autismo, fue percibida e interpretada durante el último siglo. Evidencia cómo los nocivos estereotipos aso...

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the MJA Health Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the BMA Medical Book AwardsA Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellerForeword by Oliver SacksWhat is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability...

NOW AN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIMEFor fifty years and more than two thousand shows, the Grateful Dead have been earning the "deadication" of more than a million fans. Along the way, Deadheads have built an original and authentic American subculture, with vivid jargon and rich love, and its own legends, myths, and spirituality.Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads is the first map of what Jerry Garcia calls "the Grateful Dead outback," as seen throu...

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Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive edition featuring the wholly revised, re-edited and expanded text produced for the 50th anniversary of the first English publication. With additional texts, illustrations and editorial m...

The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world.This second edition of The Autism Job Club includes a new Foreword by Steve Silberman, author of the best-selling NeuroTribes, along with an Afterword by the authors. The Afterword covers the many employment initiatives for adults on the autism spectrum launched just in the three years since the book was originally pub...

Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing and illuminates the practice of this hugely influential director and dramatist.The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely new commentated edition of Brecht's...

Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, it has now been wholly revised, re-edited and expanded with additional texts, illustrations and editorial material, and new translations. The resulting work is a far fuller and more accurate volume that will provide readers with a cleare...

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners, and is suitable for acting schools, directors, actors, students and teachers of Theatre Studies. Through these texts Brecht provides a general practical approach to acting and to realising texts for the stage that crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing.The volume is in two parts. Th...