{"product_id":"beautiful-lives","title":"Beautiful Lives","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035424733\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Headline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book is both heart-rending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately, it's about love. He teaches us humanity.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Thank you, Joey, for getting your dad off his arse to write this book.' HUGH BONNEVILLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful book - powerful, persuasive, illuminating, moving.' GYLES BRANDRETH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a wonderful and important book. Beautifully written, of course; but full of pain and joy, concern and celebration.' SIMON RUSSELL BEALE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'A powerful, multi-faceted, myth-busting account of the most marginalised and belittled out-group in modern society.' SIMON JARRETT, author of \u003ci\u003eThose They Called Idiots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor much of history, people with learning disabilities have been regarded as unworthy of interest - often seen as a threat to the social order and sometimes dismissed as barely human. While recent years have seen an improvement, learning-disabled people are still treated as fundamentally different.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeautiful Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal and pragmatic account, told through the eyes of a father whose son has severe learning disabilities. From early civilisation to the chilling realities of twentieth-century eugenics, this powerful book uncovers a startling and rarely told history - one deeply embedded in the challenges still faced today.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnwin shapes this history into a powerful story of love, lived experience and the long struggle for a better future.","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859553951877,"sku":"PR432802","price":81.4,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG5AIODF0BY.jpg?v=1789101100","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/beautiful-lives","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}