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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight-and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing...
5) Eyes wide open: overcoming obstacles and recognizing opportunities in a world that can't see clearly
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn't external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality. Fear has a tendency to give us tunnel vision--we fill the unknown with our worst imaginings and cling to what's familiar. But when confronted with new challenges, we need to think more...
Series
SSA publication volume no. 05-10052
Publisher
Social Security Administration
Physical Desc
1 v. of braille ; 29 cm.
Language
English
16) All I can say
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself religiously from 1990-1995 with a video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of twenty-eight. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously documented his life—his family, his creative process, his television, his band’s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction. He filmed his...
Publisher
First Run Features Theatrical
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 2009 director Garrett Zevgetis googled the word "Beauty." He had been working on a number of darker-themed documentaries and was determined to find an uplifting story for a future project. The search returned a poignant Helen Keller quote that led Garrett to Perkins School for the Blind outside Boston, a renowned institution where a feature documentary had never before been made. He began volunteering at Perkins. On the last day of his scheduled...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record"--
20) I choose myself
Author
Publisher
The MicDrop Agency
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deepti Vempati is many things: breakout star of Netflix's hit reality dating show, Love is Blind, Indian immigrant, data analyst, daughter, sister, and a symbol of women's empowerment. Deepti captured the hearts of audiences across the globe when she turned down her fiancé at the altar--a man who, unbeknownst to Deepti, repeatedly belittled her and criticized her appearance on-screen. Millions watched as Deepti uttered the now-famous words that...
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