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The term 'idiot' is a damning put down, whether deployed on the playground or in the board room. People stigmatized as being 'intellectually disabled' today must confront variants of the fear and pity with which society has greeted them for centuries. In this ground-breaking new study Patrick McDonagh explores how artistic, scientific and sociological interpretations of idiocy work symbolically and ideologically in society. Drawing upon a broad spectrum of British, French and American resources including literary works (Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy', Dickens Barnaby Rudge, Conrad's The Secret Agent), pedagogical works (Itard's The Wild Boy of Aveyron, Sequin's Traitement moral, hygiene et education des idiots, and Howe's On the courses of Idiocy), medical and scientific papers (Philippe Pinel, Henry Maudsley, William Ireland, John Langdon Downs, Isaac Kerlin, Henry Goddard) and sociological writings (Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, Beames' The Rookeries of London, Dugdal's The Jukes), Idiocy: A Cultural History offers a rich study of the history and representation of mental disability.

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This is a decisive new approach to our understanding of 'intellectual disability' as a social and linguistic category. This book breaks both with essentialist approaches, which ground the understanding of intellectual disability in the putative physical and intellectual materiality of individuals, and with social constructionist approaches, which are caught in an inescapable paradox of being unable to grasp their nebulous target. By conducting an 'archaeological' discourse analysis this study demonstrates how intellectual disability is produced, not as a conceptual entity, but as a discursive field. Tracing its four principal conceptual parameters - functioning, organic pathology, intelligence and development - the book outlines the economy of relations between the diverse objects, concepts and practices that constitute intellectual disability today. In addition, the work demonstrates that the current discourse on intellectual disability emerged from a decisive conceptual rupture at the beginning of the nineteenth-century. Eschewing claims of a long-established 'understanding' of the essential nature and basic elements of idiocy, Modernity and the Appearance of idiocy shows that prior to the early 1900s there was a variety of conceptual formations, and none which closely matched a truly developmental understanding of idiocy.

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From David Feherty, the notorious  ex-pro and golf commentator at CBS Sports, comes a hilarious new collection of rants sure to surprise and crack up hackers everywhere. In The Power of Positive Idiocy, readers will be treated to Feherty’s distinctive commentary on aging, Texas, women on the golf course, the Irish, parenting, addiction, Charles Barkley, and, of course, every pro golfer and golfing situation you’d ever want to read about. He also graciously (or in some instances unforgivingly) answers his fans’ questions and passes on his unique and demented perspective. Don’t say you haven’t been warned . . . Have you ever wondered where the weaknesses are in Tiger’s game? Or what would happen if there were PGA Tour cheerleaders? Or how Old Tom Morris would play if he came back from the dead? Or how you can raise the next Phil Mickelson? (Actually, Feherty acknowledges he could give a small dog’s trousers about your kids; he has trouble enough with his own.) Feherty explains how one can position oneself to caddie for a living. (Hint: The answer involves drugs, gambling, divorce, and a three-strike felony record.) And, of course, he dispenses the best advice for anyone new to the game of golf. (Hint: Proceed with caution here since this calls for a gun, $55,000, and a toothless, tattooed woman.) Hilarious, perverse as ever, and totally uncensored, Feherty’s new collection is sure to put a smile on the grouchiest guy in your family.

EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE OFFICE CHARACTER WRITES ABOUT GROWING UP GEEKYRainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute in the hugely popular TV show The Office. In this hilarious memoir he talks about never quite growing out of that awkward stage and finding his place in life.For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favourite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office (NBC) fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: 'I'm not on Facebook is the new I don't even own a TV') that now has more than four million followers. Now he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humour and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up 'bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.' THE BASSOON KING chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek ('the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers'), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá'í faith he grew up in.

Critics have hailed James R. Babb as one of the best nature writers in print, and in Fly Fishin' Fool, the third and arguably best of his highly successful books about his adventures and misadventures, fly fishing is yet again a subject for his hilarious musings, and also a departure. To better skewer the objects of his well deserved scorn, Babb has donned the fool’s cap “to acquire the freedom enjoyed by fools and jesters in medieval times, snickering behind a mask of assumed innocence so that he can speak his mind on matters of import unfettered by the social graces.”In “All in the Family” he considers the ultimate low-rent method of angling for eels, and the only thing in angling history his family name has ever managed to adhere to, despite his best efforts. In “Sailfishing with Señor Ed,” Costa Rican sailfish meets madman machoism, as told by a trout fisherman who’d rather be home. Babb fishes a small creek in a Montana grizzly bear sanctuary with a couple of old East Tennessee high school buddies and nothing but the protection of a collection of old Southern hymns in “The Wings of a Dove.” And in “CrusherHole,” he examines a tough trout pool in the Smoky Mountains, where a fool and his dignity are soon parted. Part Samuel Clemens, part Ambrose Bierce, part Norman Maclean, Jim Babb’s piquant observations about the human condition, adroit similes, and consummate wordplay come together in the unique mastery of language and storytelling that avid Jim Babb readers have come to savor. Fly Fishin' Fool will surely be savored by lovers of fine nature writing and students of American letters.

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The Morgenthau Plan, the Allies' post-war policy that preceded the Marshall Plan, devastated what remained of Germany after the war was officially over. Was this "economic idiocy" — or intentional destruction of a surrendered country? A major criticism of the German population in the war years was that they claimed that they were not aware of the atrocities committed by their government. In mirror fashion, the chapters of this book chronicle events committed by the United States that should be commonly known but are not. Many of these events were and are even now denied by academics and professional historians who live in a free society. The current work documents the drafting and implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, a plan that was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people. John Dietrich demonstrates this through countless documented quotes from official sources. What had changed by 1947, and why was the Morgenthau Plan finally rejected, swept under the carpet, and radically reversed? Where are today's professional historians and why is this stunning episode in US postwar policy minimized or ignored?

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of “idiocy,” and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854―memorialized today as the first public school for people considered “feeble-minded” or “idiotic.” The asylum-school pupil is a monumental example of how education attempts to mold and rehabilitate one’s being. Zosha Stuckey demonstrates how all education is in some way complicit in the urge to normalize.The broad, unstable, and cross-cultural category of “people with disabilities” endures an interesting relationship with rhetoric, education, speaking, and writing. Stuckey demystifies some of that relationship which requires new modes of inquiry and new ways of thinking, and she calls into question many of the assumptions about embodied differences as they relate to pedagogy, history, and public participation.

The Soft White Underbelly was the origin band of Blue Oyster Cult. This book includes the full story of why their lead singer would walk away from a big record contract and one of the greatest bands in American Rock. Was it a matter of principle or just 60s idiocy?The '60s era takes a starring role in this story, as well as the great change tha has overwhelmed humanity as we whirl into the new millennium.This is the first book in a three-part memoir of lead singer, Les Braunstein. Part 1: A Lucky Monkey and the Soft White Underbelly, Part 2: A Lucky Monkey Wanders America and Europe (coming soon), Part 3: A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail (available now).Although there's no going back to those times and some of the places encountered during these travels, reading these tales will feel pretty close. Come on in.

The expressions "idiot, you idiot, you're an idiot, don't be an idiot," and the like are generally interpreted as momentary insults. But, they are also expressions that represent an old, if unstable, history. Beginning with an examination of the early nineteenth century labeling of mental retardation as "idiocy," to what we call developmental, intellectual, or learning disabilities, Mental Retardation in America chronicles the history of mental retardation, its treatment and labeling, and its representations and ramifications within the changing economic, social, and political context of America. Mental Retardation in America includes essays with a wide range of authors who approach the problems of retardation from many differing points of view. This work is divided into five sections, each following in chronological order the major changes in the treatment of people classified as retarded. Exploring historical issues, as well as current public policy concerns, Mental Retardation in America covers topics ranging from representations of the mentally disabled as social burdens and social menaces; Freudian inspired ideas of adjustment and adaptation; the relationship between community care and institutional treatment; historical events, such as the Buck v. Bell decision, which upheld the opinion on eugenic sterilization; the evolution of the disability rights movement; and the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.

A collection of Fred's outrageous columns from Fred on Everything (Fredoneverythig.net) They cover, well, everything, from the Pentagon's idiocies to those of feminism, Congress, society, and life in general. As a practicing curmudgeon Fred guarantees every word to be scurrilous, irresponsible, exasperating, seditious, and full of bile, or your money back.

His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl who has taken up with some unsavory characters. Dad isn't comfortable swimming the murky waters of London's underground. Hooky, however, feels quite at home. He's never minded helping out a pretty face - and Virginia Chanderley is that - but young and angry, she's also easy prey for a professional crook planning to steal a priceless painting. In fact, lovely Virginia has got herself into more trouble than even Hooky Hefferman - London P.I. and soldier of fortune - knows quite how to handle.

In the not so distant past, there were two tiny Illinois high schools 12 miles apart that competed vigorously in everything, including idiocy. This book is a testament to what can happen when they pool their efforts. The 334-page book is filled with illustrations by Greg Wallace and more than 2,500 insights, quips and one-liners by Ron DeBrock divided into 20 chapters.