A Life On Wheels

Author : Gary Karp
Publisher : Demos Medical Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1935281100

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Life on Wheels by Gary Karp Pdf

There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United State. Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community. Life on Wheels makes sure they take full advantage of every available opportunity. It is the A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. Life on Wheels is primarily a guidebook for those with a mobility disability, offering practical information on how to: adapt your home choose a wheelchair explore your sexuality take care of your body and much more!

Author : Beshlie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780955983238

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Romany Road - Life on Wheels by Beshlie Pdf

This long awaited book by Beshlie, her longest to date, describes her itinerant life in waggons and trailers, giving a first hand account of the life of the Traveller, and giving an insight into the Romani culture. The book is enriched by many of Beshlie's own illustrations.

Author : Gary Karp
Publisher : Demos Health
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1932603336

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Life on Wheels by Gary Karp Pdf

There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United State. Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community. Life on Wheels makes sure they take full advantage of every available opportunity. It is the A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. Life on Wheels is primarily a guidebook for those with a mobility disability, offering practical information on how to: adapt your home choose a wheelchair explore your sexuality take care of your body and much more!

Author : Breindy H.,Shaindy Perl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Cerebral palsied
ISBN : 160091084X

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My Life on Wheels by Breindy H.,Shaindy Perl Pdf

Author : Gelya Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520922352

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Venus on Wheels by Gelya Frank Pdf

In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation, Frank--anthropology's leading expert on life history and life story methods--lays the critical groundwork for a new genre, "cultural biography." Challenged to examine the cultural sources of her initial image of DeVries as limited and flawed, Frank discovers that DeVries is gutsy, buoyant, sexy--and definitely not a victim. While she analyzes the portrayal of women with disabilities in popular culture--from limbless circus performers to suicidal heroines on the TV news--Frank's encounters with DeVries lead her to come to terms with her own "invisible disabilities" motivating the study. Drawing on anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, law, and the history of medicine, Venus on Wheels is an intellectual tour de force.

Author : M. Ann Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773555334

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Muscle on Wheels by M. Ann Hall Pdf

The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safety bicycle. On the contrary, women had been riding and even racing some form of the bicycle since the first vélocipèdes appeared in Europe early in the nineteenth century. Challenging the understanding that bicycling was a purely masculine sport, Muscle on Wheels tells the story of women's high-wheel racing in North America in the 1880s and early 1890s, with a focus on a particular cyclist: Louise Armaindo (1857–1900). Among Canada's first women professional athletes and the first woman who was truly successful as a high-wheel racer, Armaindo began her career as a strongwoman and trapeze artist in Chicago in the 1870s before discovering high-wheel bicycle racing. Initially she competed against men, but as more women took up the sport, she raced them too. Although Armaindo is the star of Muscle on Wheels, the book is also about other women cyclists and the many men – racers, managers, trainers, agents, bookmakers, sport administrators, and editors of influential cycling magazines – who controlled the sport, especially in the United States. The story of working-class Victorian women who earned a living through their athletic talent, Muscle on Wheels showcases an exciting moment in women's and athletic history that is often forgotten or misconstrued.

Author : Dudley James Afford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cerebral palsied
ISBN : 0646904221

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My Life on Wheels by Dudley James Afford Pdf

Author : Ken Ilgunas
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544028838

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Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas Pdf

Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.

Author : Anodea Judith
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738715957

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Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith Pdf

As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, the chakras offer unparalleled opportunities for growth, healing, and transformation. Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 200,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras. Wheels of Life takes you on a powerful journey through progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system through the light of new metaphors, ranging from quantum physics to child development. Learn how to explore and balance your own chakras using poetic meditations and simple yoga movements—along with gaining spiritual wisdom, you'll experience better health, more energy, enhanced creativity, and the ability to manifest your dreams. Praise: "Wheels of Life is the most significant and influential book on the chakras ever written."— John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789359328713

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Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley Pdf

Christopher Morley's story "Parnassus on Wheels" is a joy. Helen McGill, a middle-aged spinster, has spent her life caring for her brother Andrew and their lucrative traveling bookshop known as "Parnassus." This book is classified as historical fiction, and it is a brilliant collection of ideas compacted into a single draft for readers of all ages to read. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of "Parnassus on Wheels" is both current and legible. She, on the other hand, yearns for adventure and freedom. Helen's life takes an unexpected turn when Roger Mifflin, an interesting and strange story salesman, appears at her door with an offer to buy Parnassus. Fearing that her brother is wasting his life on the road, Helen decides to sell the bookstore and embark on her own creative trip. As she meets new people and navigates the world of bookselling, she rapidly realizes that living on the road can be both exciting and challenging. Helen and Roger form an unusual and touching friendship as they travel together, discovering not only literary delights but additionally the joys of company.

Author : Hege Høyer Leivestad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350029934

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Caravans by Hege Høyer Leivestad Pdf

In Caravans, Hege Høyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors. As the first ethnographic study of caravan life in Europe, Caravans offers a refreshing take on contemporary mobility debates, showing how movement can best be understood by taking a detailed look at certain specific mundanities in material culture. This rich and topical ethnography is a must-read for students of anthropology, human geography and architecture, and for those with an interest in the possibilities and perils of a life on wheels.

Author : Debra Shirley
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780807592366

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Best Friend on Wheels by Debra Shirley Pdf

In second grade, Mrs. Poole asks our narrator to show the new girl around school. Imagine the surprise when our narrator first meets Sarah—Sarah uses a wheelchair! For a moment, our narrator feels awkward.

Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612192253

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The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley Pdf

Volumes disappear and reappear on the shelves, but the ghosts of literature aren’t the only mysterious visitors in Roger Mifflin’s haunted bookshop. Mifflin, who hawked books out of the back of his van in Christopher Morley’s beloved Parnassus on Wheels, has finally settled down with his own secondhand bookstore in Brooklyn. There, he and his wife, Helen, are content to live and work together, prescribing literature to those who hardly know how much they need it. When Aubrey Gilbert, a young advertising man, visits the shop, he quickly falls under the spell of Mifflin’s young assistant, Titania. But something is amiss in the bookshop, something Mifflin is too distracted to notice, and Gilbert has no choice but to take the young woman’s safety into his own hands. Her life—and the Mifflins’—may depend on it. With a deep respect for the art of bookselling, and as much flair for drama as romance, Christopher Morley has crafted a lively, humorous tale for book lovers everywhere.

Author : David Blanke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123266756

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Hell on Wheels by David Blanke Pdf

A fascinating look at the rise and growing popularity of the automobile during the first half of twentieth-century America, which brought with it a dark undercurrent. On the one hand, Americans embraced the newfound sense of freedom and mobility embodied by the automobile; on the other, they grew increasingly anxious about and fearful of the enormous threat that cars--and car accidents--posed to public safety.

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6P9U

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf