Product Description: Autistic people are empirically and scientifically generalized as living in a fragmented, alternate reality, without a coherent continuous self. In Part I, this book presents recent neuropsychological research and its implications for existing theories of autism, selfhood, and identity, challenging common assumptions about the formation and structure of the autistic self and autism’s relationship to neurotypicality...read more

Product Description: By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them , encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education...read more

Product Description: When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance...read more

Product Description: In Mapping Fate, Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was fifty-fifty, that her sister and father directed much of the extraordinary biomedical research to find the gene and a cure, make Wexler's story both astonishingly intimate and scientifically compelling...read more

Looks at the life of the Lithuanian-born anarchist during the twenty years after she was deported from the U.S. to Russia, and describes her disillusionment with the Soviet system

Chronicles the political and personal life in America of this labor and women's rights activist prior to her deportation to Canada in 1919

Based on newly discovered correspondence, this book reveals the private life behind the public legend of 'Red Emma,' a Jewish immigrant, anarchist, and supporter of women's rights and sexual freedom