Low Vision/AMD Booklist | Arlington Public Library

1) And there was light: the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II

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"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--

2) but now i see my journey from blindness to olympic

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3) Eat right for your sight: simple, tasty recipes that help reduce the risk of vision loss from macular degeneration

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Thompson, Jennifer Trainer

4) For the benefit of those who see: dispatches from the world of the blind

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Mahoney, Rosemary

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Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults...

5) Notes on blindness

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Documents theologian John Hull's experience of going blind in 1983, when he began recording a diary on audiocassette.

6) Patient H69: the story of my second sight

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Potter, Vanessa

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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing...

7) second sight

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8) See what I'm saying: the extraordinary powers of our five senses

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Rosenblum, Lawrence D

9) Seeing home: the Ed Lucas story : a blind broadcaster's story of overcoming life's greatest obstacles

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Lucas, Ed

10) The ugly laws: disability in public

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Schweik, Susan M

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History of disability

11) untold story of the talking book

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12) Vision for life: ten steps to natural eyesight improvement

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Schneider, Meir

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All parts of the body need exercise for optimal health, and the eyes are no different. Vision for Life presents an approach to eye health for people with 20/20 vision who wish to maintain their perfect vision as well as people who see poorly and would like to improve their eyesight.--

13) The vision revolution: how the latest research overturns everything we thought we knew about human vision

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Changizi, Mark A

14) what to look for in winter a memoir in blindness

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15) What you must know about age-related macular degeneration: how you can prevent, stop, or reverse AMD

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Anshel, Jeffrey

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Age-related macular degeneration-AMD-is the most commonly diagnosed eye disorder in people over fifty. Well over two million Americans have been told they have AMD, and that number is expected to grow substantially. While this is a frightening statistic, over the last several years, medical researchers have shown that a number of effective treatments can slow, stop, and even reverse the progress of AMD. Now, best-selling authors Dr. Jeffrey Anshel...