Paralegic Heroes

Author : Ann Roberts,Richard J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610690560

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Crash Course in Library Services to People with Disabilities by Ann Roberts,Richard J. Smith Pdf

This book helps libraries identify and implement new ways to serve their physically or mentally disabled patients. Authors Ann Roberts and Dr. Richard Smith work at the state level with persons with disabilities. They find that very few librarians feel comfortable with providing services addressed to the needs of the disabled, yet those who do offer services and programs other libraries can adopt and adapt. Crash Course in Library Services to People with Disabilities will help librarians get up to speed in understanding disabled persons and what they can do to make library premises and holdings more accessible to them. It provides basic information on the different types of mental and physical disabilities a librarian might encounter, then offers a range of exemplary policies, services, and programs for people with disabilities—efforts that are in place and working across the country.

Author : Romel W. Mackelprang,Richard O. Salsgiver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Control (Psychology)
ISBN : 9780190656409

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Disability by Romel W. Mackelprang,Richard O. Salsgiver Pdf

The third edition of Disability remains an indispensable tool for human service practitioners in understanding disability from an empowerment perspective. The authors address policy, theory, description, and practice, stressing the difference of disability rather than the dysfunction of disability. The text is illustrated with in-depth personal narratives by those living with disability and thought-provoking sidebars that ask readers to consider the implications of their own reactions to disability. Mackelprang and Salsgiver establish the historical and societal context in which those with disabilities are marginalized, discuss the major groupings of disabilities, and finally offer a model for assessment and practice that human service practitioners can adopt. The book develops a contemporary perspective in which people with disabilities are considered valuable and contributing members of society. Using this book, students will find not only a prescription for professional assessment and practice, but also the necessary understanding of common issues those with disabilities face, the social contexts in which they live, and the tools to work with people with disabilities as equals and partners.

Author : Edward O'Connor
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont.: Pearson Education Canada
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Paraplegics
ISBN : 0131276646

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Rick Hansen by Edward O'Connor Pdf

Author : Rick Hansen,Jim Taylor
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1553658728

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Rick Hansen by Rick Hansen,Jim Taylor Pdf

In 1973, Rick Hansen was a carefree teenager hitchhiking home from a fishing trip, a kid who lived and breathed sports. But after the truck he was riding in went out of control and crashed, Hansen was left a paraplegic. For some people that could have been the end. For Rick Hansen it was the beginning of a story that is at once sad and funny, heartbreaking and inspirational. Hansen takes you from the first painful days and frightening nights in hospital, through the gritty process of rehabilitation, to his return to competition as a world champion of wheelchair sports. It is the story of the Man in Motion tour—Rick Hansen’s incredible 24,901.55-mile wheelchair journey through 34 countries around the world. It is also the love story of Hansen and his wife, Amanda, a physiotherapist whom Hansen calls his “lifeline.” And it is a success story—Rick Hansen has raised millions of dollars for spinal cord research, rehabilitation and wheelchair sports as well as raised awareness about the disabled.

Author : Elizabeth Abele
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612119

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Home Front Heroes by Elizabeth Abele Pdf

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s, action blockbusters regularly have featured masculine figures who choose love and community over the path of the stoic loner committed solely to duty. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries. The author presents pieces of contemporary popular culture that create the complex mosaic of the present-day American heroic ideal. Hollywood popular films are examined that best represent the often painful shift from traditional heroic masculinity to a masculinity that is less "exceptional" and more vulnerable. There are also chapters on how issues of race and gender intersect with the new masculinity and on subgenres of 1990s films that also developed this postfeminist masculinity.

Author : John Pilger
Publisher : Random House
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781407086293

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Heroes by John Pilger Pdf

The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Africa, India, the Middle East and Central America. They also include the Irish labouring generation of his great-great-grandfather, transported in irons to Australia for uttering 'unlawful oaths'. It is a vivid, engrossing and sometimes blackly amusing personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. John Pilger has witnessed many of the major world upheavals of the past thirty years, as well as the daily realities of injustices normally hidden from society's view. His reporting of these events has always been distinguished by his tenaciously researched facts - especially facts that governments and powerful interests would prefer to keep secret - and by his unerring and always compassionate pursuit of the truth.

Author : Stanley H. Teitelbaum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803216440

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Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols by Stanley H. Teitelbaum Pdf

On the court and on the field they are the world?s winners, exhibiting a natural grace and prowess their adoring fans can only dream about. Yet so often, off the field our sports heroes lose their perspective, their balance, and ultimately their place. In a work as timely as the latest fracas on the basketball court or the most recent drug-induced scandal in the dugout, Stanley H. Teitelbaum looks into the circumstances behind many star athletes? precipitous fall from grace. ø In his psychotherapy practice, Teitelbaum has worked extensively with professional athletes and sports agents?work he draws on here for insight into the psyche of sports figures and the off-the-field challenges they face. Considering both historical and current cases, he shows how, in many instances, the very factors that elevate athletes to superstardom contribute to their downfall. An evenhanded and honest look at athletes who have faltered, Teitelbaum?s work helps us see past our sports stars? exalted images into what those images?and their frailty?say about our society and ourselves.

Author : National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Spinal cord
ISBN : IND:30000103852798

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Spinal Cord Injury by National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.) Pdf

Author : National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.). Information Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Spinal cord
ISBN : SRLF:A0012725065

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Spinal Cord Injury by National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (U.S.). Information Office Pdf

Author : Gina Misiroglu
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781578593958

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The Superhero Book by Gina Misiroglu Pdf

Appealing to the casual comic book reader as well as the hardcore graphic novel fan, this ultimate AtoZ compendium describes everyone’s favorite participants in the eternal battle between good and evil. With nearly 200 entries examining more than 1,000 heroes, icons and their place in popular culture, it is the first comprehensive profile of superheroes across all media, following their path from comic book stardom to radio, television, movies, and novels. The best-loved and most historically significant superheroes—mainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worst—are presented with numerous full-color illustrations, including dozens of classic comic covers. Each significant era of the superhero is explored—from the Golden Age of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s through the Modern Age—providing a unique perspective of the role of the hero over the course of the 20th century and beyond. This latest edition has been revised to reflect updates on existing characters, coverage of new characters, and recent films and media trends in the last several years.

Author : Chris Hables Gray,Steven Mentor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:49015002260728

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The Cyborg Handbook by Chris Hables Gray,Steven Mentor Pdf

On cybernetic organisms (cyborgs)

Author : John Martin Bell,Susan Mendus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521368561

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Philosophy and Medical Welfare by John Martin Bell,Susan Mendus Pdf

This volume of papers, arising from a Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, includes contributions from doctors, nurses, and administrators in the field of health care.

Author : Gail E. Hawisher,Cynthia L. Selfe
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015040730957

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Literacy, Technology, and Society by Gail E. Hawisher,Cynthia L. Selfe Pdf

Designed to help readers become critical thinkers about technology not simply consumers of technology. The readings span a broad range of topics and genres (and include alternative readings available on a World Wide Web site connected to the book). An abundance of writing-to-learn and writing-to-communicate assignments provide practice in crafting reflective pieces, thoughtful analyses of issues, argumentative discourse, research proposals, multimedia projects, and other kinds of electronic writing aimed at on-line discussion groups.

Author : Deborah Scally
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476646046

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Miyazaki and the Hero's Journey by Deborah Scally Pdf

This book explores anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki's films through the lens of the monomyth of the Heroic Quest Cycle. According to Joseph Campbell and other mythology researchers, the Quest is for boys and men, with women acting as either the Hero's mother or the Prize at the end of the journey. Miyazaki nearly exclusively portrays girls and young women as heroes, arguing that we must reassess Campbell's archetype. The text begins with a brief history of animation and anime, followed by Miyazaki's background and rise to prominence. The following chapters look at each of Miyazaki's films from the perspective of the Heroic Quest Cycle, with the last section outlining where Miyazaki and other animators can lead the archetype of the Hero in the future.

Author : Frank A. Salamone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443839600

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The Heroic Anthropologist Rides Again by Frank A. Salamone Pdf

This collection of papers, presented at the 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, represent the beginning of the anthropological investigation of the way in which anthropologist have been portrayed in popular culture. Frank A. Salamone provides an overview of the field today, looking for depictions of anthropologists in various genres – film, fiction, TV, and everyday life. The contributors look at specific portrayals of anthropologists in popular media, including using popular fiction to teach anthropology. The work is lively, accessible, and profound.