Books with title The Difference in the Game

Compare the pictures and challenge your observational skills by spotting the single devious difference in each puzzle.More than 115 beautiful and interesting picture puzzles - each with one difference to findRich, full-color photos make these puzzles easy on the eyesCan't spot the difference? An answer key is provided in the back of the bookSpiral bound160 pages

Patricia Horvath's transformation from a visibly disabled young woman to someone who, abruptly, "passes" for able-bodied, reveals cultural and personal tensions surrounding disability and creates an arc that connects imprisonment to freedom. What transpires is both suffocating and liberating. Horvath's confinement keeps her from being seen, but also cocoons a deeply personal sense of selfhood and relationship.Horvath's lyric account of her experiences with severe scoliosis sings the connective tissue between her physical disability and her powerful interior. She is "poorly put together," her "body leans sharply to the left," she is "brittle-boned, stoop-shouldered, with an "S" shaped spine," her words flame up spirited and true. Wry and breathtakingly poignant, this meditative, inspirational memoir delves into that most invisible, vital structure: identity, whose shaping and disfigurement makes all the difference in our lives.This book will particularly appeal to people interested in disability studies, feminist issues, 1970s popular culture, fairy tales, and survival.Patricia Horvath's stories and essays have been published widely in literary journals including Shenandoah, The Massachusetts Review, New Ohio Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Confrontation. She is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in both fiction and literary nonfiction and of Bellevue Literary Review's Goldenberg Prize in Fiction for a story that was accorded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. She teaches at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.

Fourteen-year-old Casey has a twin sister, Chelsea. Chelsea is autistic, Casey is not, or at least that is what she has always been told by her parents. But from the first day that Casey begins ninth grade in public school, she knows that she is in trouble and begins to sense that her worst fears about herself may be true. *** Previously, Casey had been home schooled, allowing her to help her parents with her sister, then she herself decided that she wanted to go to regular school in order to meet other teenagers and have a more normal life. In regular school, it quickly becomes apparent that although she is bright, with an amazing memory, Casey is totally inept at judging people's reactions and interpreting non-verbal clues. She is abrupt, dominates conversations by spouting a torrent of facts, and is quite unaware of the negative responses of others. At times, she escapes into a dream world and totally tunes out those around her. *** Anticipating some difficulties, Casey's parents had arranged for an in-school peer tutor, Scott, to teach her some interpersonal skills. Scott finds Casey a bit odd, but recognizes that this original person also has a sense of humor. A friendship grows, and along with beginning to understand what friendship means and how to react to Scott's needs as a friend, Casey begins to fear that she will make mistakes with his friendship and with others. Anxious over school and making friends, she begins to lose control. After an argument with Scott, she walks out of school and heads home. Scott follows, and there meets Chelsea. He is fascinated, not repulsed. *** In an effort to explain to Scott what is was like to grow up with an autistic twin, Casey shows him old videos of her sister's behavior modification training sessions, and discovers a session of her own. It appears that she is not as normal as she has been led to believe. She shuts the world out. Only Scott being threatened by the bully in the piece, Carl, brings Casey to Scott's defense and to a turning point in her life.

This book was influenced by two very different approaches to healing the world. One approach was based on a Shaman from Guatemala who watched his village torn apart by war and was forced to flee or risk being killed for carrying out his healing practices. The other was an American doctor who went in search of ways to better serve his patients. That journey landed him in China, where he learned how to harness energy to show people anything is possible, and to create the conditions for people to experiment with new ways of approaching conflict. One day while thinking about these two approaches to the world and staring at a vase of flowers, this book was born. I wanted to pass on to children and their parents that both appreciating the sameness and difference between people might be a beginning of healing those things that keep us separated. Thus, the book, The Same Difference was born.

This book was influenced by two very different approaches to healing the world. One approach was based on a Shaman from Guatemala who watched his village torn apart by war and was forced to flee or risk being killed for carrying out his healing practices. The other was an American doctor who went in search of ways to better serve his patients. That journey landed him in China, where he learned how to harness energy to show people anything is possible, and to create the conditions for people to experiment with new ways of approaching conflict. One day while thinking about these two approaches to the world and staring at a vase of flowers, this book was born. I wanted to pass on to children and their parents that both appreciating the sameness and difference between people might be a beginning of healing those things that keep us separated. Thus, the book, The Same Difference was born.