Chris Stark: 4 books

Book cover of Blind-Sided: Experiences From Behind the Glass Eye: My Life and Times at the Halifax School for the Blind
by Chris Stark
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

Day to day life at a residential school for the blind is at the core of this publication. My formative years growing up with other children who are blind was: sometimes cruel, violent, harsh but always segregated away from interaction with “normal” children. A regimented institutional life that gradually...
Book cover of The Braille Jail Anthology: A History of the Halifax School for the Blind
by Chris Stark
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

Searches for information about residential schools for the blind in Canada are barren and missing from search results. Yes, there are lots of results for residential school experiences of other groups of Canadian children but once again people who are blind have been ignored… the lack of information...
Book cover of digitalSTS

digitalSTS

A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

by Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, Laura Forlano
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
Book cover of Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture

Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture

One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media

by Chris Birks, Pierpaolo Duce, Federico G. Francioni
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment, and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that we need to survive, the corporate-controlled...
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