The first book of its kind, Images of the Disabled/Disabling Images combines an examination of the presentation of persons with disabilities in literature, film, and the media with an analysis of the ways in which these images are expressed in public policy concerning the disabled. Leaders of the disability rights movement and major scholars of disability issues explore both attitudes toward the disabled, as well as the ways in which the disabling images of these attitudes are incorporated in employment, health, housing, and education policies. Discussions include the appeal of new technological aids and new developments in community living.
The first book of its kind, Images of the Disabled/Disabling Images combines an examination of the presentation of persons with disabilities in literature, film, and the media with an analysis of the ways in which these images are expressed in public policy concerning the disabled. Leaders of the disability rights movement and major scholars of disability issues explore both attitudes toward the disabled, as well as the ways in which the disabling images of these attitudes are incorporated in employment, health, housing, and education policies. Discussions include the appeal of new technological aids and new developments in community living.

Dorst, Doug

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mulholland Books

The chronicle of two readers finding each other, and their deadly struggle with forces beyond their understanding -- all within the margins of a book conceived by Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears. S. contains 22 inserts and will be delivered in a sealed slipcase.

A "dark and funny debut"(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, the "cemetery city" serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be.

Alive in Necropolis

Literature & Fiction

United States

Riverhead Books

From the author of Alive in Necropolis "a brazen, roiling, confident collection." (Los Angeles Times). This is a book of brilliant, adventurous stories from award-winning author Doug Dorst, widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices of his generation-an heir to T.C. Boyle and Denis Johnson, or a Northern Californian Haruki Murakami. Here in The Surf Guru, Dorst's full talent is on display.

The Surf Guru: Stories

Penguin Publishing Group

A book of brilliant, adventurous stories from the award-winning Doug Dorst. With the publication of his debut novel, Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst was widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices of his generation-an heir to T.C. Boyle and Denis Johnson, a northern California Haruki Murakami. Now, in his second book, The Surf Guru, his full talent is on display, revealing an ability to explore worlds and capture characters that other writers have not yet discovered. In the title story, an old surfing-champion-turned-surfwear- entrepreneur sits on his ocean-front balcony watching a new generation of surfers come of age on the waves, all but one of whom wear wet suits emblazoned with the Surf Guru's name. An acid-tongued, pioneering botanist who has been exiled from the academy composes a series of scurrilous (and hilarious) biographical sketches of his colleagues and rivals, inadvertently telling his own story. A pair of twenty-first- century drifters course through a series of unusual adventures in their dilapidated car, chased west out of one town and into the next, dreaming of hitting the Pacific. Dorst's characters have all successfully cultivated a particular expertise, and yet they remain intent on moving toward the horizon, seeking hope in something new. Likewise, each of Dorst's stories is a virtuoso performance balancing humor and insight, achieving a perfect pitch, pulsing with a gritty and punchy, distinctly American realism- and yet always pushing on into the unexpected, taking us some place new.

The Surf Guru

Navigating adult responsibilities in a California city where the dead outnumber the living, by-the-book rookie cop Michael Mercer struggles through new relationships and becomes increasingly obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, an officer who believed he policed the dead. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.

Contemporary

Riverhead Hardcover

S. El barco de Teseo. De J.J Abrams, el genial creador de universos como Lost y Star Wars (Spanish Edition)

Abrams, J.J.

Genre Fiction

Duomo ediciones

Un libro, due lettori, un mondo di pericolo e desiderio... Una giovane bibliotecaria trova per caso un libro lasciato fuori posto da uno sconosciuto: un lettore intrigato, rapito dalla storia e dal suo misterioso autore, come rivelano le note che ha appuntato a margine. Lei gli risponderà con note di suo pugno, dando inizio a un singolare dialogo che li condurrà insieme in un mondo sconosciuto. 
IL LIBRO: La nave di Teseo, l'ultimo, discusso romanzo di V.M. Straka - autore prolifico quanto enigmatico - nel quale un uomo senza passato viene rapito e imbarcato a forza su una strana nave dal terrificante equipaggio e lanciato verso i pericoli di una missione ignota. 
L'AUTORE: Straka, oscuro e discusso protagonista di uno dei più grandi misteri del mondo; rivoluzionario di cui nulla si conosce se non le parole che ha scritto e le teorie elaborate sul suo conto. 
I LETTORI: Eric e Jennifer, un ricercatore e una studentessa indietro con gli esami, entrambi chiamati a scelte cruciali per capire chi sono e che cosa vogliono diventare, e quanto saranno in grado di mettere le proprie passioni, ferite, paure l'uno nelle mani dell'altra. 
S., ideato, concepito, realizzato dal regista J.J. Abrams e scritto dal romanziere Doug Dorst, è il diario di due persone che si incontrano tra i margini di un libro per ritrovarsi invischiate in una lotta mortale tra forze sconosciute: un viaggio nell'universo della parola scritta che risucchierà i suoi lettori in una rischiosa spirale, un'avventura impossibile da abbandonare fino e oltre l'ultima pagina.

S. La nave di Teseo di V. M. Straka

Fantasy

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