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The Psychology of Dog Ownership

The Psychology of Dog Ownership

What are the benefits of owning a dog on health and well-being? Why does a problem dog behave as it does and how can owners deal with unwanted behaviour? How do dogs communicate with humans and each other? The Psychology of Dog Ownership explores the nature of our unique relationship with dogs and its effect on our mental and physical welfare. The book uses psychological learning theory to examine dog behaviour and highlights the importance of determining between typical dog behaviour and behaviour disorders that need treatment. Focusing on how dog owners can communicate effectively with their pets and always with the dogsbest interests in mind The Psychology of Dog Ownership enhances our understanding of the modern human-canine bond and shows how important and enjoyable this relationship can be.

GBP 12.99
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My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

My Blob Feelings Workbook provides the reader with a series of unique visual reflective exercises that help to reveal one’s own emotional portrait. Using a combination of Blob characters and open questions the reader can gradually build up an image of themselves across a wide range of ‘who I am’ subjects and real-life scenarios. Packed with well-loved blob illustrations this book includes a wealth of downloadable pages and will enable the individual to ‘draw’ a picture of themselves emotionally through the series of exercises. Sections covered include: My Charts My Feeling Scales My Scenarios Myself Scales Best used as a personal toolkit for self-awareness this book is also a rich resource for professionals working in the field of feelings to use with their own clients. It is suitable for all ages from secondary school upwards and ideal for individuals couples groups and all who wish to go deeper in understanding their emotional strengths and areas for development. | My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

GBP 24.99
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Comprehensive Aphasia Test

Comprehensive Aphasia Test

The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) is a test for use with people who have acquired aphasia that can be completed over one or two assessment sessions. The test includes a user manual a cognitive screen and language battery and a scoring booklet which are all unchanged since the previous edition and - new to this release - a concise Aphasia Impact Questionnaire which replaces the Disability Questionnaire. The cognitive section assesses people's abilities across a range of task that can affect rehabilitation. Forming the main body of the test the language battery provides a profile of performance across all modalities of language production and comprehension. The Aphasia Impact Questionnaire is a pictorial Patient Reported Outcome Measure which produces both qualitative and quantitative information. It was co-produced with people with aphasia. It supports the person with aphasia to give a subjective rating of how language difficulties identified in the Language Battery affect their daily life enabling first steps towards goal setting. By capturing this information the CAT helps the therapist track changes over the course of recovery and provides a guide to likely outcomes on the basis of an early assessment. The first two sections of the CAT are supported by normative data on people both with and without aphasia and extensive data on reliability and clinical validity. The CAT allows users to: Identify underlying impairments Find where to focus assessments using PALPA and other batteries Ascertain the practical psychological and social impact of aphasia from the perceptive of the person with aphasia Create a profile of strengths and weaknesses to guide therapy. Structured around fully up-to-date models of language assessment from cognitive neuropsychology to patient reported outcome measures test is an indispensable resource for speech and language therapists and researchers. It provides as much information about people's language ability as possible in a relatively brief test designed to be completed in 90-120 minutes. Additional scoring booklets can be ordered in packs of 10 at https://www. routledge. com/Comprehensive-Aphasia-Test-Scoring-Book-pack-of-10/Swinburn-Porter-Howard/p/book/ 9781032128177

GBP 250.00
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The Turing Test Argument

The Turing Test Argument

This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical social and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England 1946–1952 over the intellectual capabilities of digital computers which led Turing to propose his test. It argues that the Turing test is best understood not as a practical experiment but as a thought experiment in the modern scientific tradition of Galileo Galilei. The logic of the Turing test argument is reconstructed from the rhetoric of Turing’s irony and wit. Turing believed that learning machines should be understood as a new kind of species and their thinking as different from human thinking and yet capable of imitating it. He thought that the possibilities of the machines he envisioned were not utopian dreams. And yet he hoped that they would rival and surpass chauvinists and intellectuals who sacrifice independent thinking to maintain their power. These would be transformed into ordinary people as work once considered 'intellectual' would be transformed into non-intellectual 'mechanical' work. The Turing Test Argument will appeal to scholars and students in the sciences and humanities and all those interested in Turing's vision of the future of intelligent machines in society and nature.

GBP 130.00
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Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Covering principles of therapy dog team training assessment skills and ongoing monitoring Canine-Assisted Interventions provides guidance on the most evidence-based methods for therapy dog team welfare training and assessment. The authors offer a linear approach to understanding all aspects of the screening assessment and selection of dog-handler teams by exploring the journey of dog therapy teams from assessment of canines and handlers to the importance of ongoing monitoring recredentialing and retirement. In addition to reviewing key findings within the field of human-animal interactions each chapter emphasizes skills on both the human and dog ends of the leash and makes recommendations for research-informed best practices. To support readers the book culminates with checklists and training resources to serve as a quick reference for readers. This book will be of great interest for practitioners in-service professionals and researchers in the fields of canine-assisted interventions and counseling. | Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

GBP 34.99
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Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship. It is a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Finding My Way also attempts to find more creative engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities universally. It seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative the literary and the affective not only as things to value in the literary texts we read but also as ways of understanding and reading texts as ways of writing criticism—of registering how books make us feel as well as how they make us think. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

GBP 130.00
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Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists parents/caregivers and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development children receiving speech therapy or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children. The set includes eleven picture books that each target a different speech sound within the story. The set is also accompanied by a user guide with notes for professionals and caregivers alike. Eleven different speech sounds have been chosen that are early developing sounds or sounds commonly targeted in speech language therapy. With titles such as Who Bit My Tail? Crocodiles Can’t Climb Trees and Ben the Bubble Bear the stories are light and engaging with colourful and fun pictures on every page to keep the child interested. Perfect not just for therapy but also for encouraging early sound awareness and development Speech Bubbles 1 will create the perfect relaxed learning and practice environment for children beginning their journey into phonological awareness speech sounds and their positions in words. | Don't Feed the Dog Targeting the d Sound

GBP 11.99
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Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians researchers and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre London in November 1996 but with additional original contributions. It presents a dia | Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

GBP 130.00
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Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse significant and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora. In the book written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives this book makes a significant contribution to dance and African diaspora scholarship simultaneously. Most important it highlights the work of researchers from Ecuador India Puerto Rico the United States and the United Kingdom and it exposes under-researched and omitted voices of the African diaspora dance world of the aforesaid locations and Puerto Rico Columbia and Trinidad as well. This study showcases a blend of scholars dance practitioners and interdisciplinarity and engages the relationship between African diaspora dance and the fields of history performance studies critical race theory religion identity and black agency. | Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

GBP 38.99
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Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

The field of infectious diseases in veterinary medicine is both rewarding and challenging and this book offers small animal veterinarians a lifeline by balancing relevant background guidance and optimizing efficiency. It provides a pathway for clinicians through this complex field by highlighting the most clinically relevant aspects of a wide range of diseases and granting them consideration for placement on dog and cat differential lists. Organized according to a system-based structure all the major clinically affected systems are covered along with a catch-all multisystem chapter for infectious diseases that escape easy classification. The book is clinically oriented based on experience underpinned by published research data. Pathogen-specific information enables rational choice of diagnostics therapy and prognostication for a complete list of small animal infectious diseases that includes bacterial viral parasitic/protozoal and fungal pathogens. This concise reference guide will be an invaluable tool for clinicians as they develop their understanding of and ability to communicate about infectious diseases of the dog and cat. Key features:Provides a clinically oriented quick reference guide Includes all major small animal infectious diseasesContains over 300 superb color illustrations | Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

GBP 44.99
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Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. This is an inspiring story of the personal and professional growth of a black scholar from his life as an immigrant to the USA to a world-renowned expert who has made a leading contribution to the study of African American life history language and culture. In this engaging memoir Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity like being elected president of the Black Student Association at the University of California Santa Cruz; learning from black expeditions to the South Carolina Sea Islands Jamaica Belize and Ghana; and meeting or interviewing civil rights icons like Huey P. Newton Rosa Parks and South African Dennis Brutus. He worked with Rachel Jeantel Trayvon Martin’s good friend and key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder—Zimmerman’s exoneration sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. With a foreword by poet John Agard this is the account of a former Director of African and African American Studies whose work has increased our understanding of the richness of African American language and our awareness of the education and criminal justice challenges facing African Americans. It is key reading for students and faculty in linguistics mixed race studies African American studies and social justice. | Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

GBP 24.99
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Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Written by Mary Zakarian's niece and nephew the narrative examines the complexities of the artist's life as they relate to many issues including ethnicity gender immigration and assimilation. Above all this is a story of trauma - its effects on the survivor its transmission through the generations and its role in the artistic experience. Zakarian painted obsessively throughout her life. As she gained recognition for her artwork she became increasingly haunted by her mother's untold story and was driven to express the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide in her art. Zakarian's attempt to deal openly with the issues of trauma and guilt caused conflicts in her relationship with her mother. These emotions became a driving force behind her art as well as the basis for her personal difficulties. By examining Mary Zakarian's life and art the authors bring new insights to the study of the Armenian experience. This moving story will inspire all those who have struggled to express themselves in the face of injustice and oppression. | Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

GBP 38.99
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Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

In an invasive paternalistic federal public policy environment for Indigenous communities this book provides an in-depth account of one person's experiences as a 'Stolen Generation' Aboriginal Australian. Told from the heart the book speaks in the raw voice of a grandmother reflecting on her life focusing on her childhood experiences subsequent perceptions and life stories. The book presents a rare autobiographical journaling of the psychological impact of institutionalisation on an Indigenous woman her search for family community and identity her psychological breakdown and her personal reconstruction through telling her story in a supportive educational environment. As an Appendix the author provides us with a critical analysis and autoethnography - using her story as a case study - that provides deep insights into the personal experience of dealing with forced institutionalisation and social engineering to assimilate Aboriginal people. | Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

GBP 175.00
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Ace That Test A Student’s Guide to Learning Better

Ace That Test A Student’s Guide to Learning Better

We know students have more to learn than ever before and there is a lot of pressure to perform well on tests demonstrating superior learning. However common study strategies such as cramming highlighting text and repeated reading have little impact in the longer-term. This exciting new book reveals the effective study strategies that will help you to use your time more efficiently ace your tests and retain information over time. In full color and accompanied by beautifully illustrated graphics Ace That Test offers evidence-based learning strategies that students can use during their study sessions including dual coding and the power of retrieving what they know. Including concrete examples of the ways students can use each strategy illustrations to leverage dual coding principles of learning and questions and activities for retrieval practice the book covers: • How to prepare your mind for learning • Making better decisions about what you study • Planning study sessions • Use visuals and words to aid understanding • Understanding concepts • Improving learning in the long run • Reading and note-taking strategies With QR codes linking to answers to embedded questions and supplemental material this is essential reading for college university and school students as well as educators teaching study skills or learning to learn courses. | Ace That Test A Student’s Guide to Learning Better

GBP 16.99
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Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

The satisfactory inclusion of children with disabilities in regular schools and classrooms provides a basis for debate from all corners of the world. This internationl collection looks at and analyzes the implications of policy for teachers parents and students. ; The views and experiences of exclusion and frustration are voiced by parents and students; this detail giving immediacy with theory developed in earlier chapters. Additionally the experience of the integration of teachers is highlighted to provide examples of programmes pedagogy and school organization conducive to the inclusion of all students in the regular classroom. ; This book is intended for use by post graduate and undergraduate students of education teachers researchers in special and regular education counselling courses at student and teacher level. | Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

GBP 130.00
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All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

Native Americans suffer disproportionately from many social and health disparities. High rates of poverty exposure to environmental toxins and various forms of violence all increase the risk of health problems including disabilities yet there is very little published scholarship concerning Native American experiences with disabilities. In collecting contributions on various aspects of disability in Native American populations in one volume this book seeks to redress this lack of attention. Writing about regions of the United States Canada and Australia and spanning a diverse range of settings from remote rural areas to reservations to college campuses the authors are attentive to the impact of specific environments on their inhabitants. Taking into account both physical and social environment and recognizing the importance of cultural context this book is a good starting point for anyone interested in developing a better understanding of the experience of Native peoples living with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation. | All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

GBP 42.99
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The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

Fascinated by them unable to ignore them and imaginatively stimulated by them Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city so too did they populate his fiction journalism and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens’s relationship to canines Beryl Gray shows that dogs real and invented were intrinsic to Dickens’s vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickens’s friends family and fellow writers and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the periodical press newspapers and institutional archives. Integral to her study is her analysis of Dickens’s texts in relationship to their illustrations by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne and to portraiture by late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin Landseer. The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination will not only enlighten readers and critics of Dickens and those interested in his life but will serve as an important resource for scholars interested in the Victorian city the treatment of animals in literature and art and attitudes towards animals in nineteenth-century Britain.

GBP 38.99
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I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

Originally published in 1993. This book shows through the oral histories of ordinary women teachers that effective prescriptions for change do not come simply from policy-makers. The author focuses on the narratives of three groups of teachers in the USA: Catholic nuns; secular Jewish women; and Black women. For each of these the individual teachers’ narratives have been examined for constructions common to the group and these patterns are assembled into a discourse. Teachers’ self-identities are considered as are their assessments of the institutions in which they have worked and their relationships with the pupils. The text examines how the social role of the teacher is constructed by the lives of these women. Incorporating this perspective of diversity into the educational debate this book argues that these less dominant but important voices shouldn’t be ignored. | I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

GBP 31.99
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The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

As recent events indicate Iranian Middle Eastern and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs explaining interpreting and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings. As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and scholars of our time Dabashi's interests and writings span subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to Iranian art and Persian literature from Sufism and Orientalism to Iranian and world cinema and contemporary Arab and Muslim visual arts; and from postcolonial theory and globalization to imperialism and public affairs. There is a direct connection between his theoretical innovations and the angle of his public interventions on the urgent global issues of the day. This book brings together some of his most important writings especially those that offer new ways of understanding Islam Iran Islamist ideology global art and the condition of global modernity. The book shows the underlying conceptual themes that unify Dabashi's wide-ranging and brilliantly insightful corpus. Dabashi combines deep knowledge of the subject matter about which he writes and highly refined sociological hermeneutical and cultural interpretive skills moving far beyond the limiting distorted and intellectually stifling character of reigning absolutist conventions. He places existing authoritative frameworks under close scrutiny in order to produce novel and penetrating insights. These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time. | The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

GBP 42.99
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Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Originally published in 1957 this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. There is a happy blending of narrative reflection and occasional extracts from case histories which gives it a delightfully human character. But it is more than this. It is a story of the profound inward adventure of an exceptionally inquiring mind. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties love and tribulation to science and general medical practice. It tells how Dr Berg became so convinced of the psychogenesis of human suffering that with great courage he gave up his practice and personal security to search for the causes in mental conflict. The story proceeds through specialisation in psychiatry to analytical training and analytic practice building up in the later chapters to a description of the troubled mind in all its manifestations and of the medical analyst’s daily work. There is a new explanation of the psychology of love with the inclusion of personal as well as professional experiences. Here as throughout conclusions have an astonishing difference from orthodox or familiar speculation and this is because they are based strictly on knowledge professional and personal. The style is natural lively and lucid. Here is an opportunity to combine learning with entertainment for Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting difficult things attractively without sacrifice of scientific essentials. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1957. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

GBP 27.99
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Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

The newest title in the series Survivor Stories this book tells the story of Paul Allen a photographer who likes opera and was a good baritone singer. At the age of 56 he sustained a stroke that left him paralysed and speechless. He has Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) a rare consequence of brain damage. Although Paul is fully conscious and his cognitive abilities are intact he is unable to move or speak due to the paralysis of nearly all his voluntary muscles. However Paul is keen to communicate and through his eye movements he tells his story from his early life career singing and other interests to the details of his stroke and the effects it has had on his life. The book also includes contributions from Paul’s wife Liz who tells the story from her point of view along with Paul’s physiotherapists occupational therapists speech therapists psychologists and others from the Raphael Hospital who have assisted in Paul’s rehabilitation. In telling of his frustrations his successes his views on life and how he sees his future Paul raises awareness of the quality of life possible for those with LIS. Combining scientific knowledge with personal narrative this unique and optimistic book is of huge importance to any professional involved in the care of someone with a brain injury and to the individuals and families touched by LIS. | Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

GBP 24.99
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The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

Originally published in 1974 this volume of The History of Pompey the Little includes a critical introduction and a biographical sketch of the author based on new material from unpublished documents together with explanatory notes for the novel's many classical and contemporary allusions. Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little was the talk of London in 1751; it continued to captivate readers throughout the century. Satirizing notable persons and events of its day it startled the public by having as its 'hero' a Bologna lapdog and created a new and popular form in English fiction - the 'spy'-novel with a non-human observer. | The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

GBP 31.99
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The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first generation of American spymasters who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm . I am indebted to Howard Roman who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters and to Nancy Kelly my editor at Reader's Digest Press for the sharp edge of her pruning shears . | The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

GBP 39.99
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Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

Joseph English was living his best life when a car accident changed everything. He suffered life changing injuries and the doctors told him there was no chance of recovery. Facing life as a quadriplegic Joe lost his business his romantic partner and for a while his will to carry on. His story told with extensive contributions from his family and friends charts his journey from being dead at the roadside to finding something to live for as he recounts his progress from injury to survival. With absolute candour Joe tells the whole story of his accident his rehabilitation and his recovery. Full of advice and suggestions from professionals in the rehabilitation journey this book is remarkably frank about the struggles Joe has endured and the times when he felt as if life wasn’t worth living. It addresses all the most difficult issues around life after paralysis including loss of identity and letting go of the past as well as providing practical information on topics such as assistive technology financial claims and legal support. It also outlines the various roles of those in the rehabilitation team. His doctors and specialist practitioners give their unique perspectives into their processes and procedures helping to demystify them while Joe’s family and friends ask the kinds of questions readers will be asking too making this an invaluable guide to what to expect for anyone going through a similar experience. The book shows – by lived example – that there is always more to live for. It is essential reading for those with paraplegia quadriplegia and other spinal injuries and their families friends and care-givers. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists neurologists and other rehabilitation therapists as well as students in medicine nursing allied health and neuropsychology. | Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

GBP 22.99
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