Joshua A Miele: Connecting Dots, Gebunden
Connecting Dots
- A Blind Life
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- Verlag:
- Grand Central Publishing, 03/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780306832789
- Artikelnummer:
- 11933954
- Umfang:
- 304 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 503 g
- Maße:
- 235 x 159 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 4.3.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
In this extraordinary memoir, a scientist who became blind at a young age shares how he navigates the world around him, and how his contributions led to cutting‑edge work in accessibility---packed with humor, adventure, and insights on life and disability.
At the age of four, Joshua Miele was blinded and badly burned when a neighbor poured sulfuric acid over his head. It could have ended his life, but instead, Miele---naturally curious, and a born problem solver---not only recovered, but thrived. Throughout his life, Miele has found increasingly inventive ways to succeed in a world built for the sighted, and to help others to do the same. At first reluctant to even think of himself as blind, he eventually embraced his blindness and became a committed advocate for disability and accessibility. Along the way, he grappled with drugs and addiction, played bass in a rock band, worked for NASA, became a guerilla activist, and married the love of his life and had two children. He chronicles the evolution of a number of revolutionary accessible technologies and his role in shaping them, including screen readers, tactile maps, and audio description.
Connecting Dots delivers a captivating first-person perspective on blindness and disability as incisive as it is entertaining, and ultimately triumphant. Joshua Miele's story is one of one ordinary blind life with an indelible impact.
