05002nam 2200625 450 991081739120332120230617012942.01-4833-6264-7(CKB)3710000000456233(EBL)1651831(OCoLC)922907807(SSID)ssj0001530809(PQKBManifestationID)12537132(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530809(PQKBWorkID)11532636(PQKB)11585660(MiAaPQ)EBC1994224(EXLCZ)99371000000045623320150818h20032003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn search of better angels stories of disability in the human family /J. David Smith ; indexer, Kathy Paparchontis ; cover designer, Tracy E. MillerThousand Oaks, California :Corwin Press, Inc.,2003.©20031 online resource (161 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7619-3840-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction: Power and Epiphanyâ€?Reflections on the Personal and Cultural Value of Disabilities""; ""The Value of Disability""; ""Part I - My Own Journey""; ""Chapter 1 - Disability and Revelation: Lessons Learned and Flying Squirrels""; ""Chapter 2 - Learning to Love, Loving to Learn: Mike and the Clown Faces""; ""Chapter 3 - Inclusion, Exclusion, and other Matters of the Heart: The Story of Nan""; ""Chapter 4 - Disabling Prejudice: Aunt Celie and the Marble Cake""""Chapter 5 - Lessons in Patois: Learning to be a Jamaican""""Chapter 6 - A Fatherâ€?s Proud Moment: The Day My Daughter became a Gifted Samaritan""; ""Chapter 7 - Recapturing the Spirit of Caring: Uncle, Brownie, and Sausage Biscuits""; ""Part I: Questions to Ponder""; ""Part II - Disability, Science, and Pseudoscience""; ""Chapter 8 - Eugenics, Old and New: Mensa and the Human Genome Project""; ""The Tragedy of Involuntary Sterilization""; ""Eugenics: A Continuing Legacy""; ""The Human Genome Project and Mental Retardation""; ""Mental Retardation, â€œFelt Necessities,â€? and Ethics""""Chapter 9 - Eugenics Revisited: Buck versus Bell and The Bell Curve""""Chapter 10 - Old Texts, Disabilities, and the Persistent Argument: For Whom the Bell Curves""; ""Chapter 11 - Different Voices of Advocacy: Helen Keller and Burton Blatt""; ""Helen Keller: A Magnificent Exception""; ""Helen Keller and the Parameters of Advocacy""; ""Burton Blattâ€?s Advocacy: The Golden Rule and beyond""; ""Legacies and Challenges""; ""Chapter 12 - A Place or No Place for Disabilities: Disneyâ€?s Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughsâ€?s Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection""""Tarzan and the Triumph of Heredity""""Burroughs on Genetic Predetermination""; ""Burroughs on Breeding for Utopia""; ""Utopia and Disabilities""; ""Chapter 13 - The Polio Vaccine Research and Children with Disabilities: Sacrifices for the Miracle""; ""Personal Reflections on Polio""; ""The Salk Vaccine and â€œInstitutionalizedâ€? Research""; ""Feeding Live Polio Virus to Children with Disabilities""; ""Research and Disabilities: Other Cases""; ""Claiming a Place of Value for People with Disabilities: The Continuing Struggle""; ""Part II: Questions to Ponder""""Part III - Disability in Historical and Literary Perspectives""""Chapter 14 - Disability and the Need for a Romantic Science: Darwinâ€?s Last Child""; ""Chapter 15 - Words of Understanding, Concepts of Inclusiveness: The Wisdom of Margaret Mead""; ""Chapter 16 - The Question of Differential Advocacy: Laura Bridgman""; ""Constructing the Disability of Mental Retardation""; ""Disability and Invisibility""; ""Laura Bridgman: The First Miracle""; ""Chapter 17 - Disabilities and the Challenges of Equality: Looking Backward, Looking Forward""; ""Looking Backward""; ""Looking Forward""""Chapter 18 - Diversity and Disability: Individuality and Mental Retardation"" This resource is a testament to the value of people with disabilities and the enrichment that we can find with them. 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National Academy Press19891 online resource (111 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-309-04229-1 Hypersonic planesAirplanes, MilitaryHypersonic planes.Airplanes, Military.358.4/3MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811952603321Hypersonic technology for military application4077498UNINA03227oam 22006254a 450 991013949790332120240424230031.00-87421-758-X(CKB)2550000000007487(EBL)486004(OCoLC)609710726(SSID)ssj0000363358(PQKBManifestationID)11278400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363358(PQKBWorkID)10387698(PQKB)10734828(MiAaPQ)EBC3442802(MdBmJHUP)muse13355(MiAaPQ)EBC486004(Au-PeEL)EBL486004(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53951(EXLCZ)99255000000000748720090918d2009 uy 0engurbn#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMormon Passage of George D. WattFirst British Convert, Scribe for Zion /Ronald G. WattUtah State University, University Libraries2009Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,2009.©2009.1 online resource (305 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Includes index.Print version: 9780874217568 Includes bibliographical references and index."On the Lord's business" -- Early life in Britain -- Journey to America and Nauvoo -- Mission to Britain -- Across the wide Atlantic and on to Zion -- Life and times in Utah : politics in the territory -- Reporter for Zion -- Deseret alphabet -- Family and life in Salt Lake City -- A man for all seasons : intellectual activities -- Sermons of obedience : traveling with Brigham Young and to Britain -- Life-changing events : leaving the office, businessman -- Spiritual wanderings : apostasy and spiritualism -- Family and farm life in Davis County.Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, asSpiritualistsUnited StatesBiographyEx-church membersUnited StatesBiographyEx-church membersChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsBiographyLatter Day Saint convertsEnglandBiographySpiritualistsEx-church membersEx-church membersChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsLatter Day Saint converts289.3092BWatt Ronald G983865MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910139497903321Mormon passage of George D. Watt2246268UNINA