Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download A Bit Different PDF full book. Access full book title A Bit Different by Pauline Conroy. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Pauline Conroy Publisher: Orpen Press ISBN: 1786050617 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
A Bit Different: Disability in Ireland brings the reader on a journey exploring the ideas that influence our thinking about people with disabilities. In the year when Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities, A Bit Different answers the question as to why the road to equal rights for people with disabilities is strewn with so many potholes. Its chapters analyse the impact of the Nazi programme to annihilate people with disabilities and create an ‘Aryan race,’ as well as the Irish habit of placing people with perceived differences into closed institutions. Drawing on examples from Germany, Romania, Italy and the US, the book casts a different or alternative light on the Army Deafness cases of the 1970s and the more recent Tuam discovery of unburied babies. Among its ten chapters, the author provides a new look at the rise of the independent living movement in Ireland among people with disabilities themselves and provides a critical appraisal of the increasing State regulation and enforcement of standards of living in residential centres for people with disabilities. Students of Disability Studies will find the first historical timeline of disability policy events over two centuries, especially useful in understanding the history of disability rights in Ireland. The intended readership for this book is among the 600,000 Irish people who describe themselves as having a disability or long-standing health condition, their friends, families, advocates, carers, social care supporters, work colleagues and employers.
Author: Pauline Conroy Publisher: Orpen Press ISBN: 1786050617 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 210
Book Description
A Bit Different: Disability in Ireland brings the reader on a journey exploring the ideas that influence our thinking about people with disabilities. In the year when Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities, A Bit Different answers the question as to why the road to equal rights for people with disabilities is strewn with so many potholes. Its chapters analyse the impact of the Nazi programme to annihilate people with disabilities and create an ‘Aryan race,’ as well as the Irish habit of placing people with perceived differences into closed institutions. Drawing on examples from Germany, Romania, Italy and the US, the book casts a different or alternative light on the Army Deafness cases of the 1970s and the more recent Tuam discovery of unburied babies. Among its ten chapters, the author provides a new look at the rise of the independent living movement in Ireland among people with disabilities themselves and provides a critical appraisal of the increasing State regulation and enforcement of standards of living in residential centres for people with disabilities. Students of Disability Studies will find the first historical timeline of disability policy events over two centuries, especially useful in understanding the history of disability rights in Ireland. The intended readership for this book is among the 600,000 Irish people who describe themselves as having a disability or long-standing health condition, their friends, families, advocates, carers, social care supporters, work colleagues and employers.
Author: Claire Alexander Publisher: Words & Pictures ISBN: 0711245452 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
Book Description
A Little Bit Different is a light and fun story depicting the journey from ignorance to acceptance and celebration. Meet the ploofers. The ploofers have been practicing something special that they all want to do at the exact same time--but wait! What's that? One of them does something different! When one little ploofer goes against the usual flow of things, the rest of them turn their backs on him. But all it takes is for one person to recognize the beauty in being different to spark a change in attitude of everyone. With simple, yet striking, illustrations and a cutaway cover design that adds tactile interest, A Little Bit Different is a joyful reading experience for both you and your child, providing the opportunity to spark more meaningful discussions about people's differences and how we accept and value them.
Author: Richard Templar Publisher: Pearson UK ISBN: 1292435607 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 273
Book Description
A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life Some people seem to find life easy. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards, always saying and doing the right things, whatever the situation. Everybody likes them – they are great to live with and great to work with. They are happy, have time for people, and always seem to know what's important - and how to deal with those things that aren't. Is there something they know or do that we don't? Is it something we could all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know The Rules of Life. These Rules are the guiding principles that will help you get more out of life, shrug off adversity more easily, and generally be a happier, calmer, more fulfilled person. You'll feel the benefits, and so will everyone around you. This edition includes a bonus section, 10 Rules for Happiness, which are all absolutely central to living a happy life.
Author: chris wind Publisher: XinXii ISBN: 1926891112 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
What if one's mandatory tour of duty was environmental rather than militaristic? Suppose all advertising had to tell the truth? Can you imagine sports without competition? ... Social commentary and activism via fiction. “As the title indicates, this collection of stories is about getting into the thick of things, taking sides, taking action, and speaking out loud and clear, however unpopular your opinion may be. ... refreshingly out of the ordinary.” Joan McGrath, Canadian Book Review Annual
Author: Dan Xu Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110293986 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.
Author: Allison J. Gonsalves Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030419339 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 187
Book Description
This Edited Volume engages with concepts of gender and identity as they are mobilized in research to understand the experiences of learners, teachers and practitioners of physics. The focus of this collection is on extending theoretical understandings of identity as a means to explore the construction of gender in physics education research. This collection expands an understanding of gendered participation in physics from a binary gender deficit model to a more complex understanding of gender as performative and intersectional with other social locations (e.g., race, class, LGBT status, ability, etc). This volume contributes to a growing scholarship using sociocultural frameworks to understand learning and participation in physics, and that seeks to challenge dominant understandings of who does physics and what counts as physics competence. Studying gender in physics education research from a perspective of identity and identity construction allows us to understand participation in physics cultures in new ways. We are able to see how identities shape and are shaped by inclusion and exclusion in physics practices, discourses that dominate physics cultures, and actions that maintain or challenge structures of dominance and subordination in physics education. The chapters offered in this book focus on understanding identity and its usefulness in various contexts with various learner or practitioner populations. This scholarship collectively presents us with a broad picture of the complexity inherent in doing physics and doing gender.
Author: Mary English Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1846944333 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
A light look at the star sign Aquarius zany weird and distant. Does this describe the Aquarius you know. This book is for you if you are having difficulties truly understanding the penultimate sign of the Zodiac. This insider information will gently guide you through the easy process of making a chart using online resources so you can identify the three key points that will help you bond quickly and make sense of the Aquarius in your life. Discover too how to make the best of the Aquarius you know and those you have yet to meet. Drawing on her extensive client files and using real life examples Mary English's expertise will guide you all the way.
Author: Guida de Abreu Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306476746 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
This book discusses mathematics learners in transition and their practices in different contexts; the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition processes involved; and the communication and negotiation of mathematical meanings during transition. Providing both empirical studies and significant theoretical reflections, it will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in mathematics education, cultural psychology, multicultural education, immigrant and indigenous education.
Author: Glenn Knight Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1418410322 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
Book Description
The misty fog drifts in swirls, over, around and through the wispy gray moss hanging low from the branches of the giant Live Oak Trees that dot the dark, errie banks of the Bayou Teche. The full silver moon was riding low through the Live Oak tree branches in the dark Mid-night sky. Everywhere you looked the sky was pelted with bright stars. Further down the bank of the Bayou, shining through the ghostly trees, stands a big Plantation House, white, silent, and tall. It's white columns gleaming in the silvery moonlight. The Plantation house is empty and lonely! SSSSSSsssssss.......What's that? Who's there? A wispy, white, filmy, uh, uh, uh, SOMETHING, can be seen floating through the Giant Live Oak Trees, floating, floating, and swirling around the gray Spanish Moss that trails to the ground. A gently breeze tugged at the filmy, gauzy, white 'STUFF....!!! 000000OOOOOooooooN0.....A GHOST!!! En Petit' Cajun Spirit. -------A----GHOST!!! ALON' MES AME', Come join the fun, be like this lazy little Cajun French boy, roll with laughter and puzzle over this mystery. Come, fly with Christian and the littlest ghost and learn the story on the back of the old door of the Plantation House. You will love this petit ghost story. Alon', Alon', Mes Ame' (come, come, my friend).
Author: Kerry Fisher Publisher: Bookouture ISBN: 1838888462 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
‘I could not put it down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Bookworm 86 ‘Had me totally gripped’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Goodreads Reviewer ‘An absolute triumph’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Renita D’Silva ‘Beautiful and made me cry’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Book Reviews For U ‘Held me spellbound’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, Bookish Jottings Could you take in your best friend’s child, even if it risked destroying your own family? Jo had thought that her life – and her heart – was full. With a busy job, a husband and a teenage daughter who is going off the rails, keeping her life running smoothly had already felt hard enough. But now Jo sits at the funeral of her best friend Ginny, crushed by the loss of a friendship that had endured for thirty years: from college and their first days at work through to settling down and raising their own children. Against her husband’s wishes, Jo has made a life-changing decision: to take in Ginny’s teenage son Victor and raise him as her own. Despite her misgivings, Jo feels she had no choice: Ginny was a single parent and Victor had no other family who could take care of him. But Victor’s arrival is about to break open the fragile cracks that were already forming on the surface of Jo’s family life and in her small rural community… and expose a secret that has remained hidden for many years, with devastating consequences. From the bestselling author of The Silent Wife and The Woman I Was Before, Another Woman’s Child is an unputdownable and heartbreaking read about the secrets we keep from our families, and the sacrifices we are willing to make for those we love. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Diane Chamberlain. Readers love Another Woman’s Child: ‘WOW! What a rollercoaster ride this book was!... Totally gripped from the beginning… It has all the feels!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Kerry Fisher... you are simply a tremendous writer!… Such a fabulous read… Kerry always creates brilliant characters that you can bond with so easily… [This book] certainly pulled at my heart strings… I just absolutely adore everything about Kerry’s books and for me, Kerry is certainly one of the top women’s fiction writers.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘A fantastic story!… definitely an unputdownable book!… I wanted to get to the final chapter to see how the story would end, but at the same time, I did not want it to end.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘It was very hard to put this book down. I just loved it. It was filled with emotions: happy ones, sad ones and everything in between.’ B for Bookreview, 5 stars ‘A thrilling and dramatic novel that kept me engaged throughout the entire journey.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘I was totally consumed as soon as I started this one. This is a firecracker of a book. Kerry is brilliant and never lets me down.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Could not put the book down, a real page turner. This book is a must on your book list.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Another great book by this author. An enjoyable story and an excellent read.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars ‘A great book… well worth the read. I found it very compelling and enjoyed it totally.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars ‘A highly enjoyable read that left me with a smile.’ Nicki's Book Blog ‘A great read that draws you in… it kept me entranced till the end.’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ‘Another fantastic read from Kerry Fisher… A beautiful emotional story.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars
Author: Pauline Conroy
Author: Pauline Conroy
Author: Claire Alexander
Author: Richard Templar
Author: chris wind
Author: Dan Xu
Author: Allison J. Gonsalves
Author: Mary English
Author: Guida de Abreu
Author: Glenn Knight
Author: Kerry Fisher