In science and technology and one high school located in San Francisco and their approach to education. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend, television for serious readers. And now on booktv Lennard Davis provides a history and examines the impact of the americans with disability act, signed into law july 26, 1990. Our guest author is Lennard Davis who has written the first major book on the history and impact of the americans with impact of the americans with disabilities acts the hidden story of how the americans with disabilities act gave the largest u. S. Minority its rights. Lennard davis is an author and distinguished prof. Of liberal arts and sciences, at the university of illinois, and prof. Of medical education and disability and human developments, the director of project bio cultures which focuses on the link between medical and social science, cultural studies, disability studies and other areas. Lennard davis is the author of several books on dis
Great read if you like ancient roman history as i do. Thats my Summer Reading and i hope to be be next year with an equal number of recommendations. And now, Lennard Davis provides a history and examines the impact of the americans with disabilities act signed into law on july 26 night to 90. Our guest author is Lennard Davis his first major impact of the ada enabling acts the hidden story of how the americans with disabilities act gave the largest u. S. Minority its rights. Lennard davis and south are missed in which arts and sciences and is currently teaching in English Department at the university of illinois in chicago. Hes also a professor of medical education and professor of disability and human development. In addition he is the director project bio cultures which focuses on the links between medical and social sciences, cultural studies, disability studies and other areas. Professor davis is the author of several books including enforcing normalcy, disability deafness in the b
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now storms sweeping through the area. Live look at allentown getting hit right now with heavy rain and lightning. Live radar you can see the reds and yellows all part of that system covering the area. Some bearing the brunt of the storm. A live look from the ben franklin bridge tonight here in philadelphia the rain was kind of scattered throughout the night. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland and we have live team coverage. Chris oconnell out with concert fans adventurous diners dodging all of this. We begin with Scott Williams tracking the storms. Were not done with the rainfall yet. You can see that frontal boundary continues to move through our area. A break from the rain right now around philadelphia but take a look into sections of Chester County to the west of west chester moving toward the malvern area west vincent looking at some downpours and in particular berks county right now looking at v
Through our area. A break from the rain right now around philadelphia but take a look into sections of Chester County to the west of west chester moving toward the malvern area west vincent looking at some downpours and in particular berks county right now looking at very heavy rain around reading moving toward allentown. The pocono mountains. Some locations there have seen up to 2inches of rain. You can see as we move toward delaware, more showers and thunderstorms moving in your direction and take a look at some of the rainfall totals just to our west around york moving toward harrisburg. To to 5inches and once again toward berks county one to 2inches of rain. All of this because of that cold front that continues to move through our area. But out ahead of its very tropical. So we can squeeze out a loft moisture we still have that Flash Flood Watch in effect until friday morning. I95 north and west and as we go overnight you can see by 3am, still watching some scattered downpours acro
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