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The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability. Including physical disabilities, but exploring issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities, this edition explores more varieties of bodily and mental experience. New histories of the legal, social, and cultural give a broader picture of disability than ever before. Now available for the first time in eBook format 978-0-203-07788-7.
By Lennard J. Davis (editor)

Hardcover:

9781138930223 | 5 revised edition (Routledge, August 19, 2016), cover price $180.00
9780415630528 | 4th edition (Routledge, February 8, 2013), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: The Fourth Edition of the Disability Studies Reader breaks new ground by emphasizing the global, transgender, homonational, and posthuman conceptions of disability.
9780415873741 | 3 edition (Routledge, February 26, 2010), cover price $159.00
9780415953337 | 2 edition (Routledge, August 3, 2006), cover price $150.00
9780415914703 | Routledge, August 1, 1997, cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9781138930230 | 5 revised edition (Routledge, August 19, 2016), cover price $74.95
9780415630511 | 4th edition (Routledge, February 8, 2013), cover price $69.95
9780415873765 | 3 edition (Routledge, February 26, 2010), cover price $69.95
9780415953344 | 2 edition (Routledge, August 30, 2006), cover price $59.95
9780415914710 | Routledge, June 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies.

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Product Description: The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world...read more

Hardcover:

9780807071564 | Beacon Pr, July 14, 2015, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world.

Paperback:

9780807059296 | Beacon Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world.

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Product Description: "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted...read more

Hardcover:

9781138780910 | Routledge, March 18, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological.
9780403078943, titled "A Tour from the City of New York to Detroit in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the Second of May & the 22nd of September, 1818" | Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $69.00 | also contains A Tour from the City of New York to Detroit in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the Second of May & the 22nd of September, 1818

Paperback:

9781138780927 | Routledge, April 7, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological.
9780416378306 | Routledge, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | also contains Meek and Mild | About this edition: "By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological.

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Product Description: In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways...read more

Hardcover:

9780472072026 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 3, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically.

Paperback:

9780472052028 | Univ of Michigan Pr, January 3, 2014, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically.

Product Description: Love presents a biocultural synthesis of science and culture to arrive at a complex understanding of what we talk about when we talk about love. The aim of the Just the Facts...and More series is to improve biocultural literacy by putting in one place, in a highly readable format, and in a type of book that might be bought impulsively at a bookstore (or more likely used in general education science, social science, or composition classes) the basics for a discussion of a complex subject...read more

Hardcover:

9780415883207 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 15, 2012), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Love presents a biocultural synthesis of science and culture to arrive at a complex understanding of what we talk about when we talk about love.

Paperback:

9780415883214 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 15, 2012), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Love presents a biocultural synthesis of science and culture to arrive at a complex understanding of what we talk about when we talk about love.

Hardcover:

9780226137827 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2008), cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9780226137841 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2009, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: Every family has a secret. But what if that secret makes you question your own place in the family? Mixing equal parts memoir, detective story, and popular-science narrative, this is the emotionally charged account of one man’s quest to find out the truth about his genetic heritage–and confront the agonizing possibility of having to redefine the first fifty years of his life...read more

Hardcover:

9780553805512 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 19, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Every family has a secret.

The hearing son of deaf parents offers a candid, bittersweet memoir of growing up with his working class Jewish parents, recalling the happy times and confusion that marked their relationship.

Hardcover:

9780252025334 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The hearing son of deaf parents offers a candid, bittersweet memoir of growing up with his working class Jewish parents, recalling the happy times and confusion that marked their relationship.

Paperback:

9780252075773 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, June 9, 2008), cover price $26.00

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Product Description: With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Berube (foreword by) and Lennard J. Davis

Hardcover:

9780814719497 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies.

Paperback:

9780814719503 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $26.00

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Product Description: What if Shakespeare found himself living in modern-day Manhattan? The Sonnets follows Will Marlowe, a Columbia University English professor, who, while teaching a class on Shakespeare, realizes that his life is beginning to parallel the Bard s sonnets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780791449776 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $25.50 | About this edition: What if Shakespeare found himself living in modern-day Manhattan?

Paperback:

9780791449783 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What if Shakespeare found himself living in modern-day Manhattan?

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Product Description: Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in careful chronological order, that dated from 1936. The letters ended in 1938, when Eva Weintrobe came to America to marry Morris, and they provide the core of Shall I Say A Kiss?, their courtship by correspondence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9781563680762 | Gallaudet Univ Pr, March 3, 1999, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: Upon the death of his father Morris at age 82, Lennard Davis found among his effects a trove of letters, kept in careful chronological order, that dated from 1936.

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Product Description: "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780231054201 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $59.00

Paperback:

9780812216103 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 1, 1996), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted.

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Product Description: In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself...read more

Hardcover:

9781859849125 | Verso Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J.

Paperback:

9781859840078 | Verso Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J.

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Product Description: By providing a meditative overview of the past twenty years in the political study and teaching of literature, Where We're Bound assesses the concrete contributions of the sixties and the kind of changes that needed to come about to institutionalize the activism of this period...read more

Hardcover:

9780231065665 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: By providing a meditative overview of the past twenty years in the political study and teaching of literature, Where We're Bound assesses the concrete contributions of the sixties and the kind of changes that needed to come about to institutionalize the activism of this period.

Paperback:

9780231065672 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1991), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: By providing a meditative overview of the past twenty years in the political study and teaching of literature, Where We're Bound assesses the concrete contributions of the sixties and the kind of changes that needed to come about to institutionalize the activism of this period.

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