Midgetism

Author : Erin Pritchard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000869101

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Midgetism by Erin Pritchard Pdf

There exist problematic attitudes and beliefs about dwarfism that have rarely been challenged, but continue to construct people with dwarfism as an inferior group within society. This book introduces the critical term ‘midgetism’, which the author has coined, to demonstrate that the socio-cultural discrimination people with dwarfism experience is influenced by both heightism and disablism. As a result, it unpacks and challenges the problematic social assumptions that reinforce midgetism within society, including the acceptability of ‘midget entertainment’ and ‘non-normate space’, to demonstrate how particular spaces can either aid in reinforcing or challenge midgetism. Drawing on the tripartite model of disability, this book demonstrates how midget entertainment is framed as a non-normative positivism, which makes it an acceptable form of employment. Using autocritical discourse analysis, the book exposes, examines and responds to excuses that are used to reinforce midgetism, thus critiquing the numerous beliefs influenced by cultural representations of dwarfism, such as people with dwarfism being acceptable figures of entertainment. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, social history, sociology and cultural geography.

Author : Brad Steiger
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578593477

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Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside by Brad Steiger Pdf

Spotlighting news articles, historical accounts, and firstperson interviews, this chronicle of human interactions with monsters will convince even the most hardened skeptic of the existence of the bogeyman, bigfoot, werewolves, and swamp creatures. Offering an array of wild reports—from the police officer who begrudgingly responded to a call about a longhaired woman flying over a suburban neighborhood only to find himself calling for backup when she attacked his patrol car to the motorist whose headlights illuminated a sevenfoot tall, wolflike creature that stood on its hind legs—this historical record highlights scary and unbelievable narratives. From slightly demented humans to spinetingling paranormal encounters, each outlandish occurrence is detailed with thorough research and recounted with a storyteller's crafted voice.

Author : Gabriela Harding
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781785891151

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Santa Claws by Gabriela Harding Pdf

Will Christmas ever be the same again? Gabriela Harding’s debut children’s novel, Santa Claws, is set in the London suburbs and the wilderness of the High Arctic. It is a Christmas adventure narrated by Honey, who presents readers with festive terrors and an evil Santa. It’s Christmas Eve and Honey is home alone. Well, alone if she doesn’t count the boring company of her little brother, Teddy, and her grandmother, who is a little too fond of sherry. She doesn’t think Christmas can get any worse. But when Honey and Teddy are brutally kidnapped from their own home, this festive season soon becomes the worst Christmas ever... After waking up in a freezing land of horrors, they are forced into hard labour in a factory of nasty toys amidst evil dwarves and the evil Santa Claws. Honey and her brother fear for their lives in a world of child-eating dogs, murderous chefs and secret passages dripping with all things icky. Worse still, Santa Claws turns out to be a cannibal with a very special dish in mind for the New Year’s celebrations: his own brother, the real Santa Claus. Can Honey and Teddy save Santa from the cooking pot and free themselves from a life of whip-cracking dwarves and slave labour? Santa Claws is aimed at children between 11-14 who enjoy mystery and fantasy fiction with traces of dark humour.

Author : Aimee Medeiros
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319106

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Heightened Expectations by Aimee Medeiros Pdf

Includes research using the UCLA Library Baby Books Collection.

Author : Augustus F. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Computer science
ISBN : UCSD:31822005432869

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Normal and Reverse English Word List by Augustus F. Brown Pdf

Author : KUTTY, A. BASHEER
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789388028387

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PSYCHOLOGY FOR B.SC. NURSING, SECOND EDITION by KUTTY, A. BASHEER Pdf

Psychology is both an applied and academic field that studies the human mental processes and behaviour. The present book comprehensively deals with the appropriate areas of Psychology to help the students of Nursing and other healthcare courses gain an insight of the subject. The text begins with the evolution and history of Psychology and its branches, and moves on to the methods adopted by the contemporary psychologists in mapping the human brain. It focuses on the applications of psychology in performance enhancement and self-help. Psychological aspects like perception, learning, emotion, aptitude and intelligence are further exemplified and elucidated in this book with the clinical problems associated with them. The book also deals with the common health problems associated with stress—the bane of modern existence—and provides solutions to cope with those problems. The modern day issues like lifestyle illness and attitudinal problems are also addressed in this book. In the second edition, a new chapter namely, ‘Importance and Impact of Psychology for Nursing Profession’ has been introduced, which facilitates the nurses to adapt to the changing demand of the profession seamlessly. Furthermore, in this edition, the narrative has been revised in general with added commentary and pictorial representations to make the text illustrative and engaging.

Author : John B. Walter
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781483293707

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An Introduction to the Principles of Disease E-Book by John B. Walter Pdf

An Introduction to the Principles of Disease E-Book

Author : Amy Shojai
Publisher : Furry Muse Publications
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781386217534

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Dog Facts: The Pet Parent's A-to-Z Home Care Encyclopedia by Amy Shojai Pdf

THE PERFECT DOG BOOK! More than 78 million pet dogs today are kept in fifty-four million U.S. households. Now, from one of the most trusted dog care authors of the last twenty-five years comes the definitive reference for adopting, keeping, and maintaining a healthy, happy dog. DOG FACTS: The Pet Parent's A-to-Z Home Care Encyclopedia is designed to answer all your questions. How do I choose the right dog? What holistic help and preventive care should I give? Why do dogs act the way they do, and what dog behavior indicates illness? What constitutes an emergency, and how/when can I safely treat my dog with home care and first aid? Inside you'll find: An alphabetical A-to-Z listing, with more than 200 entries and 200+ cute dog photos and illustrations, covering everything from abscesses and hair loss to whipworms and zoonosisCharts that list symptoms for a particular condition, the corresponding home care or first aid, the comparative veterinarian and holistic treatments, and preventive adviceA symptoms/conditions table that helps you identify what ailments might be bothering your dogBreed-At-A-Glance chart to compare personality, looks, care challenges and other issues when choosing your purebred dogA comprehensive, easy-to-use index that makes quick reference a snapContact information for dozens of dog organizations and veterinary resourcesAccessible, yet comprehensive, DOG FACTS can be used with ease and trust. And doesn't your dog deserve the very best?

Author : David Bolt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000934182

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Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X by David Bolt Pdf

Disability is history and futurity, culture and society, practice and theory, work and play, an immense desire for life by which body and mind are dragged kicking and screaming into each and every new day. Using autocritical discourse analysis, a new hybrid research method that combines aspects of the established methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and autoethnography, this book explores the formative cultural identity politics of disability via cultural stations of UK popular culture. These cultural stations include action figures, children’s books, television miniseries, comics, comedy films, teenage drama and sitcoms, the punk rock movement, and alternative comedy. Although the cultural stations range from toys and comics to aggressive music and chaotic sitcoms, all are considered with a focus on the language and tropes of disability. Indeed, most of the works are not remembered as portrayals of disability but the book’s analysis reveals flash if not fleeting representations that, when centralised, clarify patterns of duplicity. Via the language of power, and the power of language, all these texts are found to have contributed to the formative cultural identity politics of disability. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, toy studies, comic studies, humour studies, television studies, popular music studies, gender studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PURD:32754076792146

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Equal Employment Opportunity for the Handicapped Act of 1979 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources Pdf

Author : Hardev Bahri
Publisher : Rajpal & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : English language
ISBN : 8170281849

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English-Hindi Dictionary of Technical Terms by Hardev Bahri Pdf

English-Hindi dictionary of technical terms.

Author : G. Azzi John G. Azzi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426930119

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Dialogues of the World of Nature by G. Azzi John G. Azzi Pdf

Personified dialogues of various entities from our natural world, discussing, arguing, commenting, on every day life's emotional, p physical, intellectual, contingencies.

Author : Demetrio Aguilera-Malta,Peter Earle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781461251705

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Babelandia by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta,Peter Earle Pdf

Author : Jaap Kooijman,Patricia Pisters,Wanda Strauven
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789089640253

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Mind the Screen by Jaap Kooijman,Patricia Pisters,Wanda Strauven Pdf

Mind the Screen pays tribute to the work of the pioneering European film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, author of several volumes on media studies and cinema culture. Covering a full scope of issues arising from the author’s work—from melodrama and mediated memory to avant-garde practices, media archaeology, and the audiovisual archive—this collection elaborates and expands on Elsaesser’s original ideas along the topical lines of cinephilia, the historical imaginary, the contemporary European cinematic experience, YouTube, and images of terrorism and double occupancy, among other topics. Contributions from well-known artists and scholars such as Mieke Bal and Warren Buckland explore a range of media concepts and provide a mirror for the multi-faceted types of screens active in Elsaesser’s work, including the television set, video installation, the digital interface, the mobile phone display, and of course, the hallowed silver screen of our contemporary film culture.

Author : Nathan Hoturoa Gray
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781304519634

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The Age of Fire by Nathan Hoturoa Gray Pdf

Commencing from the devastation of Apartheid heralding the rise of Mandela and concluding with the wars erupting throughout the Middle East igniting the religious, racial and cultural transformations occurring all around the planet - this is a journey from Cape to Cairo of a completely different calibre. Nathan Hoturoa Gray travels through some of the planet's most compelling battlegrounds observing from where our species has come and where it is heading. 'The Age of Fire' delivers a powerful statement on humanity covering issues of race relations and global imbalance as we tackle the challenges of the Fifth Cultural Ecology: an era commencing with the end of the Mayan Calendar December 21, 2012. Providing both prophectic and futuristic thinking about how we must attempt to face overpopulation, environmental instability, food and water shortage the book finds the one key global moral that will give humanity a chance to survive and remain dignified through the cataclysmic challenges of the 21st century.