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  • The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot

    by Agatha Christie ...
    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

  • Disabled Education

    A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Enacted in1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act – now called theIndividuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides all children withthe right to a free and appropriate public education. On the face of it, theIDEA is a shining example of law’s democratizing impulse. But is that reallythe case? In Disabled Education, Ruth Colker digs deep beneath theIDEA’s surface and reveals ... Read more

    40,16 €

  • Deficiência & os desafios para uma sociedade inclusiva - Vol 01

    by Ana Carolina Brochado Teixeira, Ana Luísa Junqueira, Andreza Cássia da Silva Conceição, Anelize Pantaleão Puccini Caminha, Carina Lellis, Carolina Valença Ferraz, Fernanda Tartuce, Fernando da Fonseca Gajardoni, Gonzalo Lopez, Heloisa Helena Barboza, Igor Lima da Cruz Gomes, João Pedro Leite Barros, Joelson Dias, Joyceane Bezerra de Menezes, Laís de Figueirêdo Lopes, Larissa Mercês, Lauro Luiz Gomes Ribeiro, Leonardo Rocha de Almeida, Luís Roberto Barroso, Matheus Carvalho, Oksandro Gonçalves, Otavio Leite, Rafaella Nogaroli, Rebecca Monte Nunes Bezerra, Ricardo Tadeu Marques da Fonseca, Rosana Medeiros Veluci Gajardoni, Sérgio Ricardo Costa Caribé, Simone Pinheiro Machado de Souza, Simone Tassinari, Stella Camlot Reicher, Victor Freitas Moura, Vinícius Périssé Maia Veras, Waldir Macieira da Costa Filho ...
    Series Book 1 - Deficiência & os desafios para uma sociedade inclusiva
    "A união de noventa autores para a elaboração de uma coleção é um fato que a engrandece sobremaneira. Mas reunir noventa autores para escrever uma coleção sobre o tema das pessoas com deficiência e os inúmeros desafios para que tenhamos uma sociedade efetivamente inclusiva, é notável! Trata-se de obra de construção coletiva que vem regada pelos eflúvios de amorosidade dos autores em prol da causa ... Read more

    21,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Family Policy and Disability

    by Arie Rimmerman ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    This book explores the status and scope of family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues. It includes a discussion of the gaps between family needs and contemporary family policies in the United States and European countries, as demonstrated in these households' surveys. In addition, the volume offers ... Read more

    110,65 €

  • Dignity & Inclusion

    Making it work for children with behaviour that challenges

    Edited by Jan Delamore, Jeanne Carlin, Amanda Allard ...
    This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who have behaviour that challenges as a result of either a severe learning disability and/or autism.Drawing on and including examples of good practice from across the country, ... Read more

    27,02 €

  • The Disabled Contract

    Severe Intellectual Disability, Justice and Morality

    by Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Social contract theories generally predicate the authority of rules that govern society on the idea that these rules are the product of a contractual agreement struck between members of society. These theories embody values, such as equality, reciprocity and rationality, that are highly prized within our culture. Yet a closer inspection reveals that these features exclude other important values, ... Read more

    26,38 €

  • Bestiaire

    Bêtes curieuses Hommes singuliers

    by Raymond Ponson ...
    Une mesure de protection juridique est instaurée pour aider les personnes dont les capacités sont réduites. Elle est mise en place par le juge des tutelles et est gérée par des mandataires judiciaires ou des tuteurs familiaux. Cet essai examine ces mesures sous deux angles : le gestionnaire, avec un focus sur les conditions légales et l’exercice de la tutelle, et le bénéficiaire, en considérant ... Read more

    10,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dignity & Inclusion

    Making it work for children with complex health care needs

    Edited by Jeanne Carlin, Amanda Allard, Jan Delamore ...
    This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who require clinical procedures, children who require moving and handling and children who need intimate care as part of their personal support.Drawing on and including examples of ... Read more

    30,94 €

  • L'imputabilità del minorenne

    by Graziana Aiello ...
    Dall'autrice di dequo.it - il tuo avvocato online, un lavoro orientato verso un'analisi del tema dell'imputabilità minorile per raggiungere principalmente l'obiettivo di capire cosa la legge intenda quando richiede la capacità di intendere e di volere perché un minorenne possa ritenersi imputabile. Il nostro legislatore ha indicato, infatti, come fondamento dell’imputabilità sia del soggetto ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les Processus discriminatoires des politiques du handicap

    by Patrick Legros ...
    La loi du 11 février 2005 pour « l’égalité des droits et des chances, la participation et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées » vise à faciliter l’insertion des personnes handicapées. Elle prévoit des compensations favorables à leur autonomie, dans les domaines domestique et professionnel. Alors même que ces objectifs initiaux n’ont pas encore été atteints, on constate que la loi crée de ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law

    Moving Beyond Binaries

    by Beverley Clough ...
    Series series Social Justice
    This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism; empowerment/protection; carer/cared-for; disabled/non-disabled; public/private. Whilst on one level ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Medical Humanities and Disability Studies

    In/Disciplines

    by Stuart Murray ...
    Series series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
    Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and ... Read more

    15,68 €

  • Legislação sobre Pessoa com Deficiência

    10ª edição

    by Câmara dos Deputados, Edições Câmara ...
    Series Book 265 - Legislação
    Organizada por Symone Maria Bonfim, a 10ª edição da Legislação sobre Pessoa com Deficiência reúne em um único volume todas as normas acerca de inclusão social e acessibilidade.Atualizada até 27/6/2022, a coletânea inclui a Lei Brasileira de Inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência (LBI), a Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com Deficiência (Nova York, 2007), o Tratado de Marraqueche (Marraqueche, ... Read more

    Free

  • Care and Support Rights After Neoliberalism

    Balancing Competing Claims Through Policy and Law

    by Yvette Maker ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    This book offers principles for designing care and support policy to address two persistent sources of tension in the field. The first is the tension between supporting women's unpaid caring and supporting their paid work participation. The second is the tension between carers' claims for support based on the 'burden' of caring and disability rights claims for support for choice and independence ... Read more

    110,65 €

  • Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite

    Partie législative - Livre II : Dispositions particulières du régime général des retraites (droit français)

    by Various ...
    Découvrez le Code des pensions civiles et militaires de retraite, Partie législative - Livre II : Dispositions particulières du régime général des retraites, un ouvrage incontournable pour les professionnels du droit. Ce recueil exhaustif vous plonge au cœur des textes réglementaires et des dispositions officielles qui régissent le régime des retraites en France. Conçu pour répondre aux besoins ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation

    A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians

    Edited by Shereen Brifcani, Andrew Worthington, Phil S. Moore ...
    This accessible handbook focuses on the importance of neuropsychological evidence and the role of the neuropsychologist as expert witness in brain injury litigation.This thorough, evidence-based resource fosters discussion between the legal profession and expert neuropsychological witnesses. The chapters reflect collaborations between leading personal injury lawyers and neuropsychologists in the ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Understanding Parent Blame

    Institutional Failure and Complex Trauma

    by Andy Bilson, Vivien Cooper, Kaydence Drayak, Louise Parker Engels, Lucy Fullard, Cathleen Long ...
    Blame the parents. It’s a common reaction to any failure in children’s behaviour or to their safety, and yet so many issues – from education and economic to social care and mental health – arise from the failure of the state to provide adequate support to children and their families.This edited collection brings together academics, practitioners and activists along with contributions from parents ... Read more

    32,43 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability

    Edited by Angharad E. Beckett, Anne-Marie Callus ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across ... Read more

    58,44 €

  • The Disability Pendulum

    The First Decade of the Americans With Disabilities Act

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Series Book 39 - Critical America
    Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress and analyzes the first decade of judicial decisions under the act. She assesses the success ... Read more

    24,16 €

  • Keywords for Disability Studies

    Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss, David Serlin ...
    Series Book 7 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability StudiesKeywords for Disability Studies aims to broaden and define the conceptual framework of disability studies for readers and practitioners in the field and beyond. The volume engages some of the most pressing debates of our time, such as prenatal testing, euthanasia, accessibility in public transportation and the workplace, ... Read more

    20,13 €

  • Know Your Rights: Legal Protections for Social Security Benficiaries against Debt Collectors

    by Clyde N. Cook, III ...
    In "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFICIARIES AGAINST DEBT COLLECTORS," readers are empowered with crucial knowledge to defend themselves against aggressive debt collection practices. This comprehensive guide navigates through the legal framework that protects Social Security beneficiaries, offering clear and actionable advice on how to manage and eliminate ... Read more

    15,49 €

  • Workplace Mental Health Law

    Comparative Perspectives

    by Takenori Mishiba ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Health Law
    This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries.The work presents a study of the laws, policies, and legal interpretations to help prevent mental health problems from occurring in the workplace and appropriately address problems once they do occur. With a view to improving provision in Japan, the author examines the legal ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • International Perspectives on Disability Exceptions in Copyright Law and the Visual Arts

    Feeling Art

    Edited by Jani McCutcheon, Ana Ramalho ...
    This book provides an overview of disability exceptions to copyright infringement and the international and human rights legal framework for disability rights and exceptions. The focus is on those exceptions as they apply to visual art, while the book presents a comprehensive study of copyright’s disability exceptions per se and the international and human rights law framework in which they are ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice

    A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Courts

    Edited by Lisa Waddington, Anna Lawson ...
    Series series International Law and Domestic Legal Orders
    Introduced in 2008, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has existed for nearly a decade. This comprehensive study examines how courts in thirteen different jurisdictions make use of the Convention. The first sustained comparative international law analysis of the CRPD, Waddington and Lawsons ground breaking text illuminates the intersection between human rights law, ... Read more

    118,82 €