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The war of the dots
Par Robert Irwin. 1970
Recounts the struggle to achieve a uniform type for English-speaking blind readers. Discusses various raised-type systems, from embossed Roman letters…
used in the 1830s to the establishment of Standard English Braille in 1932Cleopatra: goddess of Egypt, enemy of Rome
Par Polly Brooks. 1995
Life of the Egyptian ruler whose suicide in 30 B.C. ended the Ptolemaic dynasty. The author discusses Cleopatra's Macedonian heritage…
and descent from Alexander the Great; her relationships with Romans Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and the children borne with each; and her political and military savvy that enabled Egypt to remain independent of Rome. For grades 6-9Snowbound: the tragic story of the Donner Party
Par David Lavender. 1996
Tells how, in the mid 1840s, three Illinois men tried to move their families to California. Details problems, including snow…
storms, a misleading guidebook, and bad luck, that led to death for forty of the eighty-eight people on this covered-wagon journey. For grades 5-8Au temps de la pensée pressée
Par Jean-Philippe Pleau. 2023
Composé des "éditos" avec lesquels Jean-Philippe Pleau termine son émission radiophonique, ainsi que des articles qu'il a publiés au fil…
des années, Au temps de la pensée pressée est un essai à la fois personnel, littéraire et sociologique. La pensée y vagabonde librement, s'abandonnant aussi bien à l'intuition qu'à la réflexion critique, nous révélant chemin faisant un auteur qui avoue être devenu fou, qui compare les Lego à des philosophes, qui interroge ses émotions et qui partage ses lectures ainsi que le souvenir de son amitié avec Serge BouchardThe feel of silence (Health, society, and policy)
Par Bonnie Tucker. 1995
Memoir of a profoundly deaf woman who says her life has been "dominated by one burning desire--to fit into the…
hearing world." She learned to lip read as a toddler and has never learned to sign. Devastated when her husband left her because of her deafness, Tucker went on to excel in law school, where she now teaches. She tells of the difficulties of pretending to be hearing, such as dealing with telephone calls and conversing in the darkOld dogs and new tricks (A Kernel Bk. #No. 10)
Par Kenneth Jernigan. 1996
Stating that "it is never too late to learn new techniques and new ways of thought," Jernigan presents examples of…
himself and other members of the National Federation of the Blind doing just that. A woman learns to knit, a couple adopts a daughter, and a new deacon serves communionWho are the blind, who lead the blind
Par National Federation of the Blind. 1995
The National Federation of the Blind is a "civil rights movement" that has grown since it was established in 1940.…
Biographical sketches of some of its current leaders are provided to illustrate their "qualifications to understand and solve the problems of blindness."The journalism professor and his wife, who lived in China in the 1984-1985 academic year and visited in 1987 and…
1993, offer a general report of historical and 1980s events. They rely on academic and official sources and express optimism about ChinaHistory of the Peloponnesian War
Par Thucydides. 1993
Written in the fifth century B.C. by an Athenian commander, this is a history of the twenty-seven-year conflict between Athens,…
a democratic state and sea power, and the states of the Peloponnese headed by Sparta, a conservative power with an efficient military forceParallel journeys
Par Eleanor Ayer. 1995
Presents the lives of two young adults in Europe during World War II. Helen, a young Jewish woman, flees to…
escape the worsening treatment of Jews but is caught in the net. Alfons, an enthusiastic German teenager, is swept up in the Hitler Youth movement. This book includes excerpts from both of their autobiographies and tells of their joint work to educate future generations about the dangers of hatred. For junior and senior high readersBeyond the double night
Par Ken Thompson. 1996
Life story of James Morrison Heady, an American novelist, poet, inventor, philosopher, musician, and composer. Born in 1829, Heady, who…
became both blind and deaf, invented the "Talking Glove" and Diplograph embossing typewriter. Traces Heady's advocacy of the production of books in raised letters as a significant force behind the founding of the American Printing House for the BlindOne man's vision: the life of automotive pioneer Ralph Teetor
Par Marjorie Meyer. 1995
Ralph Teetor's daughter tells how as a young boy in the 1890s, her father lost his sight because of an…
accident with a knife. She describes how he refused to let his blindness deter him from his growing love for the new automotive engine. Graduating with a college degree in mechanical engineering, Teetor worked in the family business and invented devices such as cruise controlPrivileged hands: a scientific life
Par Geerat Vermeij. 1997
An esteemed evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, who has been blind since the age of four, describes his childhood and his…
career. Born in the Netherlands, Vermeij faced learning both a new language and contracted braille when he began third grade in the United States. But he brought with him a love of seashells, which became his life's workBound for the promised land: the great black migration
Par Michael Cooper. 1995
Following the Civil War, most African Americans in the South became sharecroppers whose lives were essentially controlled by plantation owners.…
Cooper explains how, shortly after the outbreak of World War I and the reduction of European immigrants, a new job market opened in the North for black farmworkers. He discusses the effect the Great Migration between 1915 and 1930 had on the United States. For grades 5-8Train go sorry: inside a deaf world
Par Leah Cohen. 1995
The author, who is not deaf, grew up in the New York Lexington School for the Deaf, where her parents…
worked. Her own memoirs combined with the stories of her deaf grandparents and those of current students reflect the changing deaf culture. Cohen discusses issues such as American Sign Language versus oralism, and attitudes towards cochlear implantsA collection of diary excerpts from five Jewish teenagers--David Rubinowicz, Yitzhak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Eva Heyman, and Anne Frank--who lived…
in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, Hungary, Belgium, and Holland between 1940 and 1944. Boas, a Holocaust survivor, provides biographical information and compares individual experiences. For junior and senior high and older readersMaterial world: The six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Par Ed Conway. 2023
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and…
greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground upThe West Indian-American experience (Coming to America)
Par Warren Halliburton. 1994
The term West Indian usually refers to people from the English-speaking Caribbean. This book explains West Indian history, recounting how…
European settlers wiped out the original Caribbean inhabitants and how modern West Indians descended from Africans brought over as slaves. Economic factors have caused many West Indians to emigrate to the United States even though they have been appalled by U.S. racism. For grades 5-8 and older readersTapping the charcoal
1995
Eight personal accounts by Kenneth Jernigan and other members of the National Federation of the Blind that demonstrate "Blindness is…
not as strange as you think it is, and it need not be as terrifying." In this volume of the Kernel Book series, authors discuss alternative ways of doing routine tasks and achieving dreams, the need for normal discipline for blind children, and the process of gaining the respect of othersListening
Par Hannah Merker. 1994
Merker was the director of library services for the visually and physically handicapped in Suffolk County, New York, when a…
concussion took away most of her hearing at the age of thirty-nine. She describes her growing realization of the extent of her deafness, and how she discovered the world anew as she learned to "listen" visually, tactilely, and intuitively