by Katherine Bouton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 23, 2018
Sage guidance and practical tips for the management of hearing loss along with a reminder of how “important healthy hearing...
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A manual provides advice on navigating the nuances of adult hearing loss.
In her third book on the subject, veteran journalist and lifestyle blogger Bouton (Living Better with Hearing Loss, 2015, etc.) offers additional guidance and strategic pathways to live and thrive with adult-onset hearing loss. In addition to presenting surprising statistical data and in-depth research, the author anecdotally draws from her experiences as a woman who began noticing hearing loss in her early 30s and, just a few decades later, now uses hearing aids in both ears. Supplementing basic tips, like how to talk to someone with hearing loss, the guide addresses such integral issues as the importance of assessing your own hearing abilities and looking for signs of impairment, the causes of aural problems, recommendations for finding a good audiologist, and what to expect on your first visit. A significant section thoroughly examining the wide world of hearing aids (including how to finance them) and cochlear implants is approachably written and easily readable, making the book ideal for readers of any age who suffer from varying stages of aural loss. Bouton also gets personal with this subject, noting that hearing aids involve vanity and pride factors because less than 20 percent of adults “ages 20 to 69” who “could benefit from” the items actually use them. Highly descriptive and comprehensive, this savvy book makes an attractive companion volume to the author’s 2013 memoir (Shouting Won’t Help), which plumbed the fear, denial, and stigma of coming to terms with hearing impairment, showing how its deleterious effects can extend to encompass relationships with family and significant others. Suggestions on how to travel comfortably with hearing impairment complement tips on choosing quieter restaurants and attending social gatherings. Bouton’s manual emphasizes the importance of recognizing the early warning signs of what she calls an “invisible disability” and that early treatment is key while delivering a final word of encouragement that a cure for hearing loss is surely on the medical-breakthrough horizon.
Sage guidance and practical tips for the management of hearing loss along with a reminder of how “important healthy hearing is for healthy aging.”Pub Date: Oct. 23, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-692-16498-3
Page Count: 311
Publisher: RiverWest Press
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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