Undaunted By Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Download Undaunted By Blindness PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Undaunted By Blindness book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Undaunted By Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Clifford E. Olstrom
language : en
Publisher: Perkins Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Undaunted By Blindness written by Clifford E. Olstrom and has been published by Perkins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Blind categories.
Undaunted By Blindness 2nd Edition
DOWNLOAD
Author : Clifford E. Olstrom
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2012-07-10
Undaunted By Blindness 2nd Edition written by Clifford E. Olstrom and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The purpose of this book is to provide concise biographical information about 400 notable blind persons. The people in this volume are but a small sample of many thousands of notable blind persons in history. Most of the information about their lives comes from secondary sources. Where feasible, some of the subject's own words were used.
Five Lectures On Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kate M. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Five Lectures On Blindness written by Kate M. Foley and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Self-Help categories.
Kate M. Foley was the American author of Five Lectures on Blindness (1919) which were written from the standpoint of a blind person, seeking to better the condition of the blind. They were addressed not to the blind, but to the seeing public, for the benefit that will accrue to the blind from a better understanding of their problems. The successful work of Miss Foley as a student in the California School for the Blind, as a volunteer teacher, and in recent years as home teacher for the California State Library, makes these lectures particularly important and authoritative.
Coping With Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alvin Roberts
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1998
Coping With Blindness written by Alvin Roberts and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Currently, 1.7 million Americans are either blind or are in the process of losing their vision. Sightless himself and a veteran of four decades of helping people cope with blindness as well as with the possibility of blindness, Alvin Roberts decided that telling stories drawn from the community of the blind and from his fellow rehabilitation workers was the best way to reassure others—especially the elderly, who are most at risk of becoming visually impaired—that "blindness need not be the end of active life, but rather the beginning of a life in which [people] will depend on their residual senses to continue full, active living." Through good stories well told, then, Roberts offers reassurance that competent help exists for the visually impaired. He chooses stories that demonstrate to those facing blindness that they, too, can learn to cope because others have done so. Yet that is only part of his message. Seeing humor as a great facilitator for successfully reentering mainstream society, Roberts also dispels the commonly held belief that blind people are a somber lot and that those who help them encounter little humor. Many of these stories are frankly funny, and blind people and those in the rehabilitation field certainly are not above practical jokes. Roberts’s personal experiences and conversations with colleagues have provided a wealth of incidents on which to base stories of rehabilitation workers with the blind going about their daily tasks. He paints a positive picture of what it is like to be blind, replacing fear, dread, and myth with reality.
The Mystery Of The Eye And The Shadow Of Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rod Michalko
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Mystery Of The Eye And The Shadow Of Blindness written by Rod Michalko and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Unravels the ways that blind persons come to understand and live their lives. It shows that blindness is a life worth living and that blind persons must grapple with the question of what kind of blind person they choose to be.
There Plant Eyes
DOWNLOAD
Author : M. Leona Godin
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2021-06-01
There Plant Eyes written by M. Leona Godin and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Social Science categories.
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New Yorker There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Godin—who began losing her vision at age ten—illuminates the often-surprising history of both the condition of blindness and the myths and ideas that have grown up around it over the course of generations. She combines an analysis of blindness in art and culture (from King Lear to Star Wars) with a study of the science of blindness and key developments in accessibility (the white cane, embossed printing, digital technology) to paint a vivid personal and cultural history. A genre-defying work, There Plant Eyes reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to humanity’s understanding of itself and the world.
Notes On Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Hull
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2017-02-09
Notes On Blindness written by John Hull and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Notes on Blindness was the basis for a major documentary in 2016. 'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift' Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered perceptions of time and space, of waking and sleeping, love and companionship. With astonishing lucidity of thought and no self-pity, he describes the horror of being faceless, and asks what it truly means to be a husband and father. And eventually, he finds a new way of experiencing the world, of seeing the light despite the darkness. Based on John's diaries recorded on audio tape, this is a profoundly moving, wise and life-affirming account of one man's journey into blindness. Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Undaunted
DOWNLOAD
Author : Diana Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Undaunted written by Diana Palmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with FICTION categories.
Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left millionaire Connor Sinclair reclusive and wary, Emma Copeland gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Connor doesn't know: Emma is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever. Connor lives by rules intended to protect both him and his vast wealth. Emma's innocence is the only thing that's ever broken through his cold reserve, but now his trust is shattered. By the time he realizes how much he stands to lose, it might take a miracle to win her back. But it's a challenge he'll gladly face for the woman and the family he needs more than his next breath.
Blindness
DOWNLOAD
Author : Henry Green
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1993
Blindness written by Henry Green and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art students categories.
Blind Workers Against Charity
DOWNLOAD
Author : M. Reiss
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-26
Blind Workers Against Charity written by M. Reiss and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-26 with History categories.
Founded in 1893, the National League of the Blind was the first nationwide self-represented group of visually impaired people in Britain. This book explores its campaign to make the state solely responsible for providing training, employment and assistance for the visually impaired as a right, and its fight to abolish all charitable aid for them.