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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

  • Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    The Implementation of the CRPD in Federal Systems and Its Implications

    Edited by Professor Delia Ferri, Professor Francesco Palermo, Professor Giuseppe Martinico ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights. It investigates how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is implemented by different federal systems around the world.It analyses the effects that the obligations undertaken under the CRPD have on federal governance and on the constitutional division of powers ... Read more

    51,19 €

  • Disability and Equality Law

    by Michael Ashley Stein ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of defining disability and impairment; the dilemma of same versus different treatment; the balance between autonomy and external influence and support; linkages to other anti-discrimination categories such as ... Read more

    420,10 €

  • Human Rights and Disability Advocacy

    Edited by Maya Sabatello, Marianne Schulze ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty. On the way, they brought a new kind of ... Read more

    68,47 €

  • Allies and Obstacles

    Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities

    by Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, Richard Scotch ...
    Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in ... Read more

    21,72 €

  • Disabled Justice?

    Access to Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    by Eilionóir Flynn ...
    Disability offers a new lens through which to view the effectiveness of access to justice, and the inclusiveness of the justice system as a whole. This book analyses the experience of people with disabilities through the entire justice system, from making a complaint, to investigation, and through the court/tribunal process. It also considers the participation of people with disabilities in a ... Read more

    59,65 €

  • Twenty-Two Cents an Hour

    Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages

    by Doug Crandell ...
    In Twenty-Two Cents an Hour**, Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while wealthy CEOs grow even wealthier as a direct result.**As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted bipartisan legislation which ... Read more

    18,12 €

  • Fibromialgia e lavoro: quali «accomodamenti ragionevoli»?

    by AA. VV. ...
    La persona con fibromialgia incontra barriere molto diversificate alla piena inclusione e capacità produttiva nell’ambiente di lavoro. Coerentemente con i principi della Convenzione dell’Onu, l’obiettivo di rimuoverle attraverso opportuni «accomodamenti ragionevoli» porta a considerare un ampio ventaglio di interventi e possibilità, che spaziano da tecnologie assistive fino a piccole e grandi ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences

    by Erin Pritchard ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10".This book engages with the concept that dwarfism’s most prominent feature – body size and shape – can form the basis of social discrimination and disadvantages within society. By ignoring body size as a disability, it is hard to ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Code mondial de l'exécution digitale / Global Code of Digital Enforcement

    CODE MONDIAL EXCEC.DIGITAL(FR/E)

    Edited by Marc Schmitz ...
    L’Union internationale des huissiers de justice (UIHJ) a été créée en 1952. Elle regroupe une centaine de Chambre Nationales, associations professionnelles ou services publics d’exécution émanant de 5 continents. Elle a pour vocation de représenter ses membres auprès des organisations internationales et d’assurer la collaboration avec les organismes professionnels nationaux. Elle pourvoit à l ... Read more

    54,99 €

  • Digital Access to the Performing Arts

    Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges

    by Magda Romanska ...
    Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.How can we make the digital performing arts truly accessible?Written by experts at metaLAB at Harvard, this pioneering study explores the urgent need to rethink digital access in the performing arts. Drawing on comparative research across the US, UK, EU and Australia, it examines how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed both the potential and ... Read more

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  • So You Think You Need A Lawyer?

    by The Committee for Social Justice ...
    The complelling true story of Ann M. Pavlick, author and brain injury advocate.Just when you feel it can't get any worse - it does! A nightmare of tragedy and despair encounters indominable spirit and the grace of not giving up. This is not fiction. The events are detestable but need to be told. it will have you shaking your head and doubting the values held in society. And perhaps more disturbing ... Read more

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  • Escaping Stigma And Neglect: People With Disabilities In Sierra Leone

    by Zampaglione Giuseppe; Ovadiya Mirey ...
    People with disabilities in Sierra Leone are disadvantaged in regards to their access to social services and the economic opportunities available to them. Oftentimes, they are marginalized and their rights are ignored. The government of Sierra Leone is taking measures to improve the social and economic situation of people with disabilities in the country. The objective of this note on people with ... Read more

    7,30 €

  • Eine Geschichte der Menschen mit Behinderung Dis/abled in der Antike

    by Robert Ralf Keintzel ...
    Im Jahr 2013 lag der Anteil der Menschen mit sogenannter Behinderung in Mitteleuropa bei circa 12,7% der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung. Also mehr als jede zehnte Person lebte mit einer Behinderung. Dennoch wurden diese Menschen lange Zeit von der Geschichtsschreibung vergessen. Menschen mit Behinderung haben aber sehr wohl eine lange Geschichte, die sich auf ihre Gegenwart und ebenso auf ihre ... Read more

    11,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System

    Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses

    by Gary Mesibov, Melissa Sreckovic, Kenneth M. Mogill, Dennis P. Sugrue, Mark H. Allenbaugh, Richard Wollert, Alexander Skelton, Fred S. Berlin, Erin Comartin, Nick Dubin, Catherine Carpenter, John Douard, Pamela Schultz, Dr Anthony Attwood ...
    Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why their actions break the law, the "sex offender legal regime" doesn't allow any room to take the ... Read more

    49,92 €

  • Forensic Mental Health Assessment in Criminal Contexts

    Key Concepts and Cases

    by Noah K Kaufman, Shane S Bush, Nicole R. Schneider, Scotia J. Hicks ...
    This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals. Divided into two parts, the first section focuses on explaining important topics related to forensic psychological and forensic neuropsychological assessment, while the second section stands on its own as a collection of fascinating legal cases with high ... Read more

    66,96 €

  • An Inclusive Environment

    by Maritz Vandenburg ...
    People can be excluded from freedom and the good things in life by age, disability, poverty, unfair discrimination, crime or the fear of crime, and arrogant and unresponsive governments. This practical reference deals with all of these factors, and shows the links between them. In addition to several hundred shorter notes it includes over a thousand major entries, each of which comprises: a ... Read more

    82,79 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work

    Edited by Oana Branzei, Anica Zeyen ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work explores the realities faced by disabled individuals in the workplace and beyond. Despite enduring stereotypes and prejudice, disabled employees and entrepreneurs continue to achieve and thrive. This Companion documents the history and future of disability organizing, highlighting concerns of the world's largest minority—over 1 billion people or 15% ... Read more

    63,31 €

  • Moy Moy’s Circle

    A True Story of Love, Disability and The World We Can Build Together

    by Suchitra Shenoy ...
    'ABOUT LOVE AND IRRATIONAL COURAGE' - Rajmohan GandhiWhen Jo Chopra McGowan, an American woman living in India, adopts baby Moy Moy - born with multiple disabilities and given little chance of survival - she could not have foreseen how completely their lives would transform. What begins as an intimate journey between a mother and her child soon expands into something far greater: the birth of a ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Perícias Médicas Judiciais

    by Jorge Paulete Vanrell ...
    Ante os avanços do atual estado da técnica, da evolução dos procedimentos de diagnóstico e da moderna orientação jurisprudencial, esta edição inclui novidades. Além de dividir seu conteúdo de acordo com os temas mais momentosos das lesões que resultam de traumas cotidianos, teve de incluir conceitos bioéticos ? que devem nortear o dia a dia pericial ? e noções de Auditoria Médica que complementam ... Read more

    7,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consentimiento informado de personas con discapacidad

    by Paula Gastaldi ...
    Series Book 6 - Colección Ethos
    Este libro pretende desarticular el modelo médico de la discapacidad, que está sostenido por una concepción médica que asocia toda discapacidad a "enfermedad". De esta manera, como respuesta exclusiva de trato hacia personas con discapacidad, la concepción médica propone la rehabilitación como el único modo de bienestar.La obra parte de la idea que la salud es un derecho, no un deber. Si la ... Read more

    4,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Security Disability Law: A Reference for Social Security Disability Claims

    by David Daggett, Griff Shuler ...
    Do you have a severe physical disability or mental health disorder that keeps you from working full-time? Has it lasted, or is it expected to last, for at least one year? Were your benefits terminated? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you may be eligible for Social Security disability benefits. But did you know the government denies the majority of claims, even when people deserve ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • Able to Lead

    Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley

    by Ravi Malhotra, Benjamin Isitt ...
    Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life. Born in mid-nineteenth-century New York,y 1890 he was a railway brakeman in Montana. An accident left him a double amputee and politically radicalized, and his socialist activism that followed took him north of the border where he eventually was considered by the government to be “one of the most dangerous men in Canada”.Able to Lead traces Kingsley’s ... Read more

    19,81 €

  • Disability and Community Living Policies

    by Arie Rimmerman ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the roots of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization legislation and policies of the twentieth century, and twenty-first-century efforts to promote community living policies domestically and internationally, particularly through the role of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), a landmark treaty ... Read more

    115,74 €