Katie Ellis

Mike Kent

Kim Cousins

Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the world’s population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not just these individuals but also their friends, family, and colleagues. When looking at it this way, it is strange that disability continues to be thought of as an anomaly—either as a medical problem located in a damaged body or something that exists exclusively outside the body, in a society that takes little account of non-normative bodies. Critical disability studies both questions these existing notions of disability and interrogates how they have become a part of the academic attitude towards the field. As the first comprehensive handbook on critical disability studies, this volume provides an authoritative overview of the subject. Including 32 chapters written by established scholars and emerging, next-generation researchers it also includes contributions from activists, writers, and practitioners from the global north and the global south. Divided into three parts: Representation, art, and culture; Media, technology, and communication; and Activism and the life course, it offers discussions on core critical disability studies topics including the social model, technology studies, trauma studies, representation, and queer theory, as well as ground-breaking work on emerging and cutting-edge areas such as neurodiversity and critical approaches in the Middle East, United States, Australia, and Europe. It is required reading for all academics and students working in not just critical disability studies but sociology, digital accessibility and inclusion, health and social care, and social and public policy more broadly.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies

From the lofty heights of God’s throne room to the miry depths of Satan’s abyss the battle continues to rage on earth. Knowing his time on earth will end soon, Satan increases the intensity of his attacks upon humankind while God matches his adversary’s assaults with supernatural provision and power. Although the characters deal with earthly problems, their struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the dominions of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Readers delve into a world of spiritual warfare between angels and demons and the impact of their warfare upon the earth. This battle is real. This battle is relevant. And this battle is not an exercise of scholarly debate; it is an issue for today. For everyone. Those who are willing to look beyond the superficial and examine a broader scope of reality explore this strange phenomenon through the characters in this story. Quicken your senses, challenge your thinking, and expand your perspective as you read about the kingdoms fighting for the souls of humanity.

And Heavenly Things

Following the lives of several people and animals, this story explores relationships in the midst of trials. Living in a time of tribulation, the characters maneuver through precarious situations--a government reeducation program, a train hijacking, an earthquake--circumstances that occur with little warning. But despite these hardships loyalties are tested and battle lines drawn. Eyes are opened and hearts are pierced. This is not your mother's bedtime story. Starvation, disease, and natural catastrophes plague the earth in this futuristic account. For readers who are daring, willing to step into a world of betrayals and miracles, fear and wonderment, crack open this cover.

Kim Cousins

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