Disability History

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    • A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
    • By: Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson
    • Narrated by: Tom Satterly
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • One of the most highly regarded Tier One Delta Force operators in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD....

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    • The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
    • By: Joseph Kapacziewski, Charles W. Sasser
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This is an inspiring and thrilling tale listeners will never forget. The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb....

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    • Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
    • By: Ashley Shew
    • Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ashley Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community....

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    • The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications....

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    • Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying
    • By: Joe Hammond
    • Narrated by: Russell Tovey
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In 2018, Joe Hammond, wrote a piece for the Guardian about the 33 birthday cards he was writing for his two sons....

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    • By: Marguerite De Angeli
    • Narrated by: Roger Rees
    • Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-08
    • Language: English
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    • Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs....

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    • By: Rodney Barker
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged - 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic....

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    • Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire (D/C: Dis/Color)
    • By: Akemi Nishida
    • Narrated by: Jean Carlson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • Just Care is Akemi Nishida’s thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of social oppression and control.

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    • Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
    • By: Joseph Andrew Orser
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-14
    • Language: English
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    • Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit....

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    • The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture
    • By: Cynthia Wu
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-16
    • Language: English
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    • In her captivating book, Chang and Eng Reconnected, Cynthia Wu traces the "Original Siamese Twins" through the terrain of American culture....

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    • A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
    • By: M. Leona Godin
    • Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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...

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    • Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
    • By: Chloe Silverman
    • Narrated by: Margie Lenhart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation....

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    • Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation
    • By: Betty M. Adelson
    • Narrated by: Susan Shalhoub Larkin
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • Historically, they have borne the labels "freaks" and "oddities"; they have been collected as pets, displayed as spectacles, and treated as comic relief. Now, for the first time, in this comprehensive volume, the lives of dwarfs are explored in all their fullness and humanity....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....

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    • How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most
    • By: Amy S.F. Lutz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • In Chasing the Intact Mind, Lutz traces the history of the intact mind concept, explaining how it influences current policy and practice affecting those with autism....

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    • The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
    • By: Max Wallace
    • Narrated by: Christine Lakin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability....

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    • By: Claire Eliza Bartlett
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight—for their country and for themselves....

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