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  • The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

    This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures by Agatha Christie are compiled from short stories written for The Sketch magazine from March to December 1923. Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Claimant's Cookbook

    Your Guide to Social Security Disability Benefits

    by Gamal Rivera ...
    Full disclosure: dealing with the Social Security Disability system as a claimant is about as fun as a root canal . . . with paperwork. Whether you're just starting your application, stuck in appeal limbo, or trying to figure out what on earth "substantial gainful activity" actually means, this book breaks it all down in plain English with a pinch of humor and a healthy splash of practical advice. ... Read more

    2,67 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

    A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemicHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately impacted by city and national policies, work ... Read more

    Free

  • Learning with Learning Disability

    What Learning Disability Can Teach Us About Being Human

    by Owen Barden ...
    Series series Autocritical Disability Studies
    This book uses the concept of “learning disability” to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn with rather than from or about learning disability. This crucial distinction means being open to what learning disability can teach us about what it means to be human. This approach comes from recognising learning disability as an organising concept – a concept which radically ... Read more

    29,21 €

  • Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform

    Our Voices, Our Stories

    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the stories of people with disabilities are combined with responses ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Multiple Sclerosis

    Your Legal Rights

    This extensively revised third edition continues to provide reliable basic information and possible solutions to the legal problems that often affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS).In the past seven years, since the publication of the last edition, significant legislative changes have taken place that affect the lives of anyone living with MS. Trying to decipher new laws can be overwhelming, ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - What is the Evidence?

    Ebook Format

    Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is a controversial issue in medicine. This book provides the most up to date universal review of the construct known as CRPS. The authors review the history of the diagnosis and offer an evidence based criticism regarding the development of the CRPS nomenclature. Chapters contain information regarding the theories of causation and difficulties encountered in the lack ... Read more

    79,49 €

  • The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

    Forgotten and Invisible?

    Series series Elgar Studies in Human Rights
    Refugees living with disabilities are often forgotten or invisible during acute crises of human displacement. This groundbreaking work examines the experiences of persons with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disasters or conflict, and analyses the existing legal frameworks for their protection.The authors deftly explore the intersection between one of the oldest ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • Such a Pretty Girl

    A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

    A memoir by a disability rights activistSuch a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to ... Read more

    16,10 €

  • Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the ... Read more

    62,00 €

  • Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite

    Partie réglementaire - Décrets en Conseil d'Etat. - Livre I : Dispositions générales relatives au régime général des retraites (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite, Partie réglementaire - Décrets en Conseil d'État, Livre Ier : Dispositions générales relatives au régime général des retraites. Cet ouvrage incontournable s'adresse aux professionnels du droit, offrant une compilation exhaustive des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels qui régissent le système des retraites en France. ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite

    Partie réglementaire - Décrets en Conseil d'Etat. - Livre II : Dispositions particulières du régime général des retraites (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite, Partie réglementaire - Décrets en Conseil d'État, Livre II : Dispositions particulières du régime général des retraites. Cet ouvrage incontournable s'adresse aux professionnels du droit, offrant une compilation exhaustive des dispositions réglementaires et des textes officiels qui régissent le domaine des retraites. Grâce à une ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Disabling Criminal Justice

    The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System

    This book considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts.Utilising the social model of disability, it considers the dominant strategies of governance, including 'vulnerability', which the author argues obscures the rights of disabled people in the criminal justice system. In doing so it sheds light on how this group should be governed.Drawing on rigorously ... Read more

    Was 97,19 € Now 49,49 €

  • The Development of Disability Rights Under International Law

    From Charity to Human Rights

    The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality, dignity, autonomy, full participation, as well as the right to live in the community, and the right to supported decision-making and ... Read more

    62,09 €

  • Indigenous Disability Studies

    Edited by John T. Ward ...
    This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach. Indigenous people demonstrate considerable knowledge in a multitude of capacities in spite of legal, monetary, social, economic, health, and political inequalities that they experience within from ... Read more

    45,04 €

  • Seguimiento del proceso de inserción sociolaboral de personas con discapacidad. SSCG0109

    Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SSCG0109 - INSERCIÓN LABORAL DE PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el ... Read more

    5,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability

    Good Practice for Assessing and Working with Adults - including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Borderline Learning Disability

    by Penny Morgan ...
    Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.It presents clear guidance on how to carry out effective assessments and explains how interventions might differ when working with parents who have a learning disability. It covers a ... Read more

    32,96 €

  • Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power

    Edited by Asha Hans ...
    This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences of women and their interactions with family, society and medical and legal institutions.Women with disabilities face unprecedented levels of violence, oppression and marginalisation in their daily lives as well as a lack of visibility, proper care and ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Volume 9 Gas Stations

    ADA Made Easy, #9

    Series Book 9 - ADA Made Easy
    What are your rights and responsibilities in the ADA?The Americans with Disabilities Act Title III addresses the fundamental right of access to goods and services for people with disabilities. This is explained in a common sense style to help business owners understand their responsibilities and consumers with disabilities to know their rights.Ramps maybe the most visible accessibility impact of ... Read more

    Free

  • Laboratory of Deficiency

    Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s

    by Natalie Lira ...
    Series Book 6 - Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
    Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the “feebleminded,” justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political ... Read more

    24,05 €

  • Book 9 Spas, Swimming and Wading Pools

    ADA Made Easy

    Series Book 9 - ADA Made Easy
    The Americans with Disabilities Act Title III addresses the fundamental right of access to goods and services for people with disabilities. This is explained in a common sense style to help business owners understand their responsibilities and consumers with disabilities to know their rights. ... Read more

    Free

  • Disabling Barriers

    Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law

    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement.Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original ... Read more

    19,07 €

  • Discrimination, Copyright and Equality

    Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled

    by Paul Harpur ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    While equality laws operate to enable access to information, these laws have limited power over the overriding impact of market forces and copyright laws that focus on restricting access to information. Technology now creates opportunities for everyone in the world, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, to be able to access the written word – yet the print disabled are denied reading ... Read more

    40,59 €

  • Book 1: Exterior Access to Businesses

    ADA Made Easy

    Series Book 1 - ADA Made Easy
    The Americans with Disabilities Act Title III addresses the fundamental right of access to goods and services for people with disabilities.This book discusses access before you enter the store, business, or facility. Parking, Loading Zones, Accessible Routes, and some specific insight into obstacles faced by people with visual impairments.Learn the accessibility responsibilities for businesses and ... Read more

    1,50 €