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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
viii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices, and schools to realms of national and international politics.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
vii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design - design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
vii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. It opens with the "outbreak" of the poor posture epidemic, which began with turn-of-the-century paleoanthropologists: If upright posture was the first of all attributes that separated human from beasts - and importantly a precondition for the development of intellect and speech - what did it mean that a...
4) Black Adam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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