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  • Crip Authorship

    Disability as Method

    Edited by Mara Mills, Rebecca Sanchez ...
    2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing.Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened lead... ... Read more

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  • The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities

    Forgotten and Invisible?

    by Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Ron McCallum, Ben Saul ...
    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

    ₹3,281.33

  • 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

    ₹4,387.23

  • 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

    ₹7,064.36

  • 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

    ₹966.99

  • 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

    ₹6,207.95

  • 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

    ₹5,499.00

  • 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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  • Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability

    Exploring Trust in Justice

    by Naomi Creutzfeldt, Arabella Kyprianides, Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson ...
    Series series Perspectives on Law and Access to Justice
    The pandemic has significantly impacted people's engagement with the administrative justice system (AJS). As we navigate the post-pandemic era, the siloed landscape of tribunals, ombuds, advice services and NGOs face the challenge of maintaining trust in the justice system's fairness, efficacy and inclusivity.Examining the journeys individuals undertake to seek justice in housing and special ... Read more

    ₹2,236.21

  • 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

    ₹65.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins

    Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA

    by Shoumita Dasgupta ...
    A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference.Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can’t tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on ... Read more

    ₹2,565.07

  • Legal Rights, 6th Ed.

    The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

    by National Association of the Deaf ...
    The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing people, and any others with physical challenges. Written in easy-to-understand language, the new edition ... Read more

    ₹2,997.54

  • 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

    ₹1,199.00 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

    ₹5,259.37

  • 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

    ₹9,633.61

  • 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

    ₹395.17

  • 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

    ₹779.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹6,850.26

  • Estatuto da Pessoa com Deficiência

    Reflexões e Perspectivas

    by Mariana Alves Lara, Daniela Braga Paiano ...
    Series series Obras Coletivas
    A Lei Brasileira de Inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência, também conhecida por Estatuto da Pessoa com Deficiência, foi promulgada em 2015. Como fruto da ratificação pelo Brasil da Convenção de Nova Iorque sobre os Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência, esta lei estruturou os direitos da pessoa com deficiência, harmonizando os existentes textos legais sobre a matéria, e promoveu importantes mudanças no ... Read more

    Was ₹2,399.00 Now ₹1,999.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing People With Dementia

    A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers

    Edited by Elizabeth Kelley ...
    The criminal justice system as a whole is not the place for someone with dementia. Jail, or worse, prison, would be absolute torture. This book is an attempt to help those who, because of dementia, are fragile, bewildered, and vulnerable – and to give their attorneys the tools to obtain a fair and just resolution of their case.Table of Contents:ForewordIntroductionWhat Is Dementia? Dr. Marc ... Read more

    ₹5,991.20

  • It’s Not Because I Want to Die

    by Debbie Purdy ...
    Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die. She has far too much to live for. But when the time comes, and the pain is so unbearable that she cannot go on, she wants her husband to be by her side, holding her hand until the end; and she wants to know that he won't be arrested.Debbie Purdy – the face of Britain's right-to-die campaign – suffers from multiple sclerosis. She was diagnosed in 1995 – barely a ... Read more

    ₹299.71

  • Metanarratives of Disability

    Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

    Series series Autocritical Disability Studies
    This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed by disability studies, is authored by those with research interests in the condition on which they focus as well as direct or intimate ... Read more

    ₹5,351.53

  • Reasonable Accommodation

    Profitable Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act

    by JayW. Spechler ...
    Reasonable accommodation is defined as any change in the work environment or in the way business is usually conducted that results in equal employment opportunity for an individual with a disability. With the Americans with Disabilities Act in full swing and more than 35,000 court cases on record, there is much to be done to get most companies into compliance. Reasonable Accommodation: Profitable ... Read more

    ₹7,920.78

  • Disability and the Good Human Life

    Edited by Franziska Felder, Barbara Schmitz, Jerome E. Bickenbach ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? ... Read more

    ₹3,622.71