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Sara Hendren
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Little Rock, AR, The United States
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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
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2020
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6 editions
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Supra Systems
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2018
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"Beautifully written. I have already started to re-read this novel. It is that good.... "
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A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory:
"Howard Gardner is a mentor of mine. So it was with personal interest that I picked up this memoir to learn a little bit about the scholar I worked for at Project Zero a decade ago. His voice really comes through in this book. I can hear his didactic "
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"I was leaning two, or even one. Then Harari got going on modern economics and I began thinking "three?" He has some really illuminating discussions of (for example) the birth of credit and the distinctly modern attitude toward the future. I intend to"
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"I recently finished Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules. Maybe I'll write up a review eventually. It was a wild mixture of the useful and the maddening. But one of the principal things I want to say about McPherson's slim, lucid book is that it makes a co"
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“This familiar, comparative idea of normal is so common that perhaps it feels timeless and universal, but it wasn’t until around 1840 that the word was even used to describe human qualities in European languages. (Prior to that time, normal referred to being perpendicular or square, a technical term that would have been used, for example, by a carpenter.)”
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
“In a social model [of disability], the interaction between the conditions of the body and the shapes of the world that makes disability into a lived experience, and therefore a matter not only for individuals but also for societies”
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
“Disability gathers a dimensional we like nothing else, because disability is no more and no less than human needfulness, both personal and political. That's why the we that ties together this book is as tenuous as it is important: the collective that arises in the form of shared bodily vulnerability, the ways our physicality and our thriving are tied.”
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
― What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
“We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.”
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