Beating Blindness: How Your Attitude, Courage, and Creativity Can Lead You to a Happy and Successful Life

Name: Beating Blindness: How Your Attitude, Courage, and Creativity Can Lead You to a Happy and Successful Life
Author: Pukstas, Daniel
ISBN: 9781663278241

Pukstas, Daniel

Language: English

Published by iUniverse, 2026

1663278245 / 9781663278241

Softcover
New

See all details

Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books

5-star seller

AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023

View this seller's items

Softcover

Condition: New

£ 20.86

Free Shipping

Ships within U.S.A.

Quantity: Over 20 available

Add to basket

Free 30-day returns

Save for laterCreate a Want for similar items

Seller Inventory # I-9781663278241

Contact seller about this item

Report this item

Title: Beating Blindness: How Your Attitude, Courage, and Creativity Can Lead You to a Happy and Successful Life
Author: Pukstas, Daniel
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication year: 2026
Condition: New
Binding: Soft cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1663278245
ISBN 13: 9781663278241

Beating Blindness combines an inspiring memoir with a set of practical tips that with help any blind person achieve a happy and successful life. In his memoir Dan Pukstas traces his confrontation with retinitis pigmentosa ,from early childhood to his professional retirement and beyond. Episodes where Dan is playing youth baseball, traversing down a mountain as a blind skier, racing somewhat blindly down a college football field, and most significantly, having his life saved 3 times by his wife Nancy are both thrilling and engaging. This is not the tale of a victim but rather the story of an individual who saw growing visual affliction as a challenge and not a call to surrender. Most of all, Dan’s account of his encounter with his deteriorating eyesight provides a model for how his three basic principles of a positive attitude, courage, and creativity led him to have a happy and successful life. Once Dan has shown the reader through the incidents in the memoir that he did indeed beat blindness, he goes on to offer a number of specific and practical methods that any visually challenged or blind person can use to make his life much better. Sometimes, Dan’s suggestions are quite concrete; at other times he encourages the reader to take on a new attitude and to approach problems from and more productive point of view. Dan’s positive attitude and sense of humor are always standing by to offer encouragement and to stimulate a “can-do” spirit. Staying safe, getting organized, maintaining good relationships with others, and continually pressing forward always get the attention they deserve. Not to be excluded from Dan’s list of suggestions are the many ways that he has found to have fun and entertain himself. For Dan, fun And blindness are not mutually exclusive. In short, while blind readers will find Dan’s battle with blindness and the weapons he used to defeat it to be exciting and useful, all readers of this book will experience joy in witnessing how another human being did not succumb to the problems caused by a serious disability but instead turn the troubles and limitations of the disability upside down so that they did not become the substance of a human defeat but instead the source of a great personal victory.

"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

California Books

Miami, FL, U.S.A.

5-star seller

AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023

Shipping rates within U.S.A.

Item	3 to 7 business days	2 to 5 business days
First item	£ 0.00	£ 9.00

Delivery times are set by sellers and vary by carrier and location. Orders passing through Customs may face delays and buyers are responsible for any associated duties or fees. Sellers may contact you regarding additional charges to cover any increased costs to ship your items.

Payment methods

Store description

We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!

Specialty

All authorized categories

Seller's business information

Miramar International Services LLC

FL, U.S.A.

Contact sellerView this seller's itemsView seller's storefront

Right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.

Information regarding the right of withdrawal

Statutory right to withdraw

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).

We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.

We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.

You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.

Exceptions to the right of withdrawal

The right of withdrawal does not apply to:

The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.