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NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea
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"The flagship book about neurological difference not being a limitation but a variation."
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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"Historical context of the neurodiversity initiative in disability studies, written for a general audience."
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In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
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"The history of autism."
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A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior
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"Actually Autistic view of the world."
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ADHD and Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
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"Actually ADHD experience"
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The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
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"What to do with the neurodiversity information in your personal life"
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Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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"The strengths of diversity in its many emphases and forms"
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Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice
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"Theory vs Reality in multiple intelligences"
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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"Neurological historian and renowned storyteller sees the humanity in a colorblind painter, brain tumor amnesia patient, surgeon with Tourette, blind man regaining some sight, artist with photographic memory, autistic savant, and autistic animal scientist Temple Grandin."
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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
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"Before the medical model, there was a social model of disability that saw strength in the "Holy Fool" with intellectual or neurological variance."
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Bullshit in Psychotherapy
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"A classically trained psychoanalist becomes disillusioned with his field's lack of success and travels through rational-emotive behavioural therapy, and then Transactional Analysis, family therapy, and concluding in energy therapies like tapping which he sees as at least not doing harm and maybe doing good."
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Beginning with Disability: A Primer
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"Written for the fresh beginner in Disability Studies, it is an accessible introduction."
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A Disability History of the United States
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"Pre-1492 to the present covering disability history in slavery and immigration, nativism and oralism, ableism, and the present."
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
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"A dated account by a journalist still shines through as a contemporary account of the civil rights and legal struggle."
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Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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"deaf/Deaf intersections and history from 14 different, and sometimes contradictory, perspectives"
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The Design of Everyday Things
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"How systems interact with humanity while working and while in error"
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
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"How technology and design fails and succeeds in including all people, and the effects of that good or poor design"
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Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life
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"The place of pain, suffering, limitation, and disability in friendship, family, church, happiness, and virtue."
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
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"An author who identifies as queer, disabled, and genderqueer with cerebral palsy and schizophrenia discusses what is natural vs unnatural, needing pity or a cure or needing acceptance and community."
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Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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"Words of hope and healing from a man who embodied an ethos of journeying together."
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Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
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"Examining the healing narratives in their biblical and cultural contexts, the author looks at the role of disability in the church then and now."
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Life Together: Wisdom of Community from the Christian East
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"How relations in community cooperate with and reflect humanity in its shared brokenness"
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The Wounded Healer
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"Strength and healing found in the ministry of experiencing the mutuality of woundedness"
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Spiritual Counsels I: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man
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"A man who suffered excruciating pains tirelessly imparts his consolation."
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice
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""We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.""
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Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics
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"Profound disability is still affecting a human being who is deserving of societal inclusion"
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The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls Who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time
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"Actionable content on how to manifest peace in one's personal life"
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The Seven Longest Yards: Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits while Leaning on Each Other
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"From a talented college football player to a quadriplegic, from a fiancée filled with hope to one filled with anxiety and depression, the two leaned into each other and found a way forward in peace."
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Scoot Over and Make Some Room: Creating a Space Where Everyone Belongs
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"Mom of three, two of whom are adopted and two of whom have Down Syndrome, shares her journey into peace."
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
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"How to TILT one's thinking to give yourself permission to make the reality your family needs."
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Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
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"Recognizing and creating healthy environments for sensory processing differences, which affect all ages."
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
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"A pre-eminent child psychologist puts the person first, especially when it is challenging."
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The Person in the Orthodox Tradition
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"Understanding the person clarifies what is needed for a healthy human society."
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Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church
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"We are, fundamentally, a relational being."
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How Children Learn
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"Understanding the norm allows us to discuss the application."
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How Children Fail
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"When systems fail all children, those who are vulnerable are hurt the most."
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach
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"The role of school in formation"
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Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Today's Tough Moral Issues
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"Science and religion integrated in humanity"
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The Power of Creativity: A Three-Part Series for Writers, Artists, Musicians and Anyone In Search of Great Ideas
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"Creativity is freedom"
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How Music Works
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"Neurophysiology of human creativity"
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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"Neurology of human art"
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The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
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"Black culture and music grew to define American culture and economics, telling a story of disadvantage and access problems and how they were overcome."
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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"Are we all autistic?"
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
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"A before, during, and after of the remarkable effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the emotional connections produced in the autistic author"
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See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor
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"Autistic students investigating fictional works of classic literature with the symbolism and emotion inherent to the works"
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By the Light of the Moon
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"A love it or hate it story by the beloved storyteller features an autistic lead character."
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House Rules
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"A fictional mystery featuring an autistic suspect and the difficulty in investigating those symptoms create"
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Till We Have Faces
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"Humanity in the communion of brokenness"
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Cancer Ward
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"A metaphor between cancer and society by one of the world's best authors"
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