1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783092803321

Autore

Karp Gary <1955->

Titolo

Life on wheels [[electronic resource] ] : the A to Z guide to living fully with mobility issues / / Gary Karp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Demos Health

[Berkeley, Calif.], : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2009

ISBN

1-282-07524-1

9786612075247

1-935281-10-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 p.)

Disciplina

616.8/42

Soggetti

Paraplegia

Paraplegics - Care

Wheelchairs

Paralysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rehabilitation -- Healthy disability -- The experience of disability -- Wheelchair selection -- Intimacy, sex, and babies -- Spinal cord research -- Home access -- Getting out there.

Sommario/riassunto

There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United States. Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community. Life on Wheels makes sure they take full advantage of every available opportunity. It is the A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788401203321

Autore

Liddle Peter

Titolo

Britain's Great War experience : life at home and abroad 1914-1918 / / Peter Liddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : , : Pen & Sword Military, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4738-3832-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

940.341

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; EARLY DAYS; Eve and Outbreak; The Call to Arms; The British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; The Response of Empire; WIDER HORIZONS; The War in the Air; The Dardanelles and Gallipoli; The Maritime Challenge; Soldiering in Distant Parts; THE HOME FRONT; Women and Children in Wartime; The Industrial Scene; Food Production, Economy and Rationing; Fund-Raising, Voluntary Endeavour and 'Life Continues'; Dissent; THE TEST WITHSTOOD; Civilian Internment; Serviceman Captivity; Western Front - The Somme to the End

The Armistice and BeyondIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War. Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle Collection in the University Library at Leeds and supporting this with photographs from private and public collections from many parts of the British Isles, Britons Experience the Great War brings the experience of soldiers, sailors and airmen graphically close. It is, however, not just the fighting front