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A high-octane memoir of unflappable determination from an X-Games and Paralympics champion
When "Monster" Mike Schultz won snowboarding gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea, it was the culmination of a decade of reinvention, in every sense of the word.
Ten years earlier he'd lain bleeding on the side of a mountain after a devastating snowmobile accident. Now he stood tall on the Paralympic podium, supported by a prosthetic knee and foot of his own creation.
Driven...
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Breadth of Bodies seeks to investigate and dismantle the language and stereotypes often used to describe professional
dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and dance educator Silva Laukkanen with illustrations
by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team collected interviews with 35 professional dance artists with disabilities from 15
countries, asking about training, access, and press, as well as looking at the...
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This book on paddlesports details using kayaks and other small boats with an eye to environmental sensibility and affordable recreation. In it, author Paula Johanson reprises her short articles from Kayak Yak website and brings new insights & humour to the time she spends on the water. As a teenager, she learned kayaking and canoeing. After a sudden hearing loss took her sense of balance, she returned to paddling for fitness and vestibular improvement....
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Terry Cohen, a young adult with Myotonic Dystrophy never wrote a book, and then after graduating from high school, he decided to write one dedicated to all young people with progressive disabilities and seeking a full life.
Terry writes- he has a disability and disease inherited from his mom, and must face it every day of his life. As a teen, he struggled the most, and then it hit him- "My disability isn't in charge of my life. I am."
It was up...
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At last! A Fitness program designed to encourage, inspire, and energize everyone! Fitness comes from the Greek word, PAS, meaning for all or everyone, and that is exactly why this program was designed. With more than 650 million people worldwide living with some kind of disability, it is time for ALL to join fitness fun.
PAS FITNESS really does include everyone.
Working both physically and cognitively, we are training the whole person with fantastic...
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One Disabled Woman's Incredible Story of Tackling Her Disability in Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream.
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How to Achieve Your Dreams when Life Seems Impossible.
Ray McAllister has always seen life a little differently. Born with a degenerative eye disorder, Peters anomaly, his youth was spent seeking connection and fulfillment in a world where the deck was stacked against him.
McAllister learned to beat those odds, excelling academically becoming the first completely blind person to earn a doctorate in the Hebrew Bible and, in his passion to share the...
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How to Achieve Your Dreams when Life Seems Impossible.
Ray McAllister has always seen life a little differently. Born with a degenerative eye disorder, Peters anomaly, his youth was spent seeking connection and fulfillment in a world where the deck was stacked against him.
McAllister learned to beat those odds, excelling academically becoming the first completely blind person to earn a doctorate in the Hebrew Bible and, in his passion to share the...
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Yes! You can practice yoga as an amputee! This book will show you how. DISCOVER powerful yoga practices to build your balance, strength, confidence and body awareness. LEARN how to adapt your yoga to your individual level of limb loss. REDUCE pain and stress due to limb loss. IGNITE your life with inner and outer transformation. MOTIVATE your amputee clients to better health and well-being in your clinic or rehabilitation hospital.
Yoga offers amputees...
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Get ready to laugh, live and learn the secrets about how to train a dog to have such leadership you can trust them with... your life!
This incredible story; hilarious, informative, revealing and surprising, is written from the perspective of the three main characters.
Seriously amazing and brilliant at his job, Guide Dog Woody.
Definitely not normal Blind Chick Sue-Ellen Lovett, who raised $3.2 million while sitting on their bottom!! And
Beautiful...
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Spoke by Spoke takes the reader on a journey with one woman who reinvents herself following a car-bike hit and run accident which left her back broken, and her bike crumpled under the speeding motor vehicle. The stories Terry shares will take you to the depths of despair and edges of darkness, and then bring you up with her amazing spirit of perseverance and resilience. This book is not a how-to manual for facing the challenges of life, it is an inspiration...
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Donna J. Hopkins was the picture of health. As a competitive athlete, with a growing broadcasting career, life truly, felt good. After a monthly self-Breast exam revealed a lump, her hopes and dreams were covered with the thick fog of pending survival, as the loneliness of "why me" began to take its toll.
As if the road to survival was not enough the first time, Donna was not only diagnosed with breast cancer a second time, but years later finds herself...
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The Minnesota hiking guide for everyone!
Minnesota's North Shore, from Duluth to the Canadian Border, is renowned for its beauty. Picturesque waterfalls, winding rivers, rocky landscapes, and, of course, Lake Superior attract visitors from across the Midwest. With Gentle Hikes of Minnesota's North Shore, there's no need to fill your backpack with gear or plan an overnight camping trip to see the best of this unparalleled region. Authors Ladona Tornabene,...
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Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? Far more than most people imagine.
Our Better Angels is a testament to the value of individuals with disabilities and the value that society could derive from being more welcoming to and inclusive of them. The reward is the powerful humanizing influence that they can have on others-even some of the most hardened people among us.
Colorful, real-life examples illustrate how a disability can...
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