This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC’s Push Girls (2012-2013), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory, and cultural studies.

These data suggest that serum exosomes are critical modulators of the immune and central nervous systems during pregnancy and are able to govern the suppression of EAE and MS by downregulating T cell responses and enhancing OPC function. Harnessing the mechanism by which exosomes suppress immunity, enhance the function of OPCs, and consequently suppress clinical EAE, can provide valuable insight into therapy development in MS.

a continuation from Learn Numbers with Little drummers 1-20, this book is numbers 21-40. The Little Drummers would love for you to clap your hands and stomp your feet as you learn your numbers with them. Get all 5 books and learn to count to 100!

Your little one will enjoy learning their colors from this exciting book. It is great for children just beginning to talk and learn shapes, sizes and colors.

a book of poems created to inspire new writers to start anywhere and work your way into a great writer. Expand your creativity even by just using an adjective to describe something else. Allow your atmosphere to inspire you or personal journeys in life.

Made for preschool and kindergarten ages. Learn about different animals from all around the world in this picture book. Children will get excited to learn page by page. It's a great book to start children understanding animals beginning with a name and picture.