Sociology: death & dying books

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Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition

Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century...
Author: Eric Parisot
ISBN: 9781138251274
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

In the first book-length study of this important poetic mode, Parisot suggests that graveyard poetry is closely...  Read More >>

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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed...
Author: Joelle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island, USA)
ISBN: 9781138802124
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed...
Author: Joelle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island, USA)
ISBN: 9781138802131
Format: Paperback 		$98.99

Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral...  Read More >>

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Suicide: My Secret Thoughts

Suicide: My Secret Thoughts
Author: Anna Unknown
ISBN: 9781539923787
Format: Paperback 		$34.29

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The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism: Concepts and controversies in talking to the dead

The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism: Concepts and...
Author: Anne Kalvig (University of Stavanger, Norway)
ISBN: 9781472466884
Format: Hardback 		$315.00

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American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning...
Author: Kate Sweeney
ISBN: 9780820350585
Format: Paperback 		$65.87

An insightful collection of observations on various American funerary traditions. Each story illuminates details...  Read More >>

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The Cruel Country

The Cruel Country
Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
ISBN: 9780820350615
Format: Paperback 		$63.23

“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet...  Read More >>

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Continuum: Life After Death

Continuum: Life After Death
Author: Wilbert Smith Jr Ph D
ISBN: 9781537461465
Format: Paperback 		$34.29

When we talk about life after death, we are bitterly afraid to face this one inevitable truth; the form that we...  Read More >>

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Playing Among the Stars: Shooting Balls of Light and Love From the Open Veil -: Diary of Spiritual Experiences with Photos from Spirit

Playing Among the Stars: Shooting Balls of Light and...
Author: Zoelouise Cadejacobs
ISBN: 9780692795880
Format: Paperback 		$49.98

My unending search for truths in life enabled me to write my 'little book'. My book is more of a 'documenting of...  Read More >>

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Death and the Afterlife

Death and the Afterlife
Author: Samuel Scheffler ,  Niko Kolodny
ISBN: 9780190469177
Format: Paperback 		$43.95

We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe...  Read More >>

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The Grieving Parents Club: How to Survive, Cope and Heal After the Death of a Child

The Grieving Parents Club: How to Survive, Cope and...
Author: Kelly Barbour-Conerty
ISBN: 9780998076102
Format: Paperback 		$52.77

By sharing her journey through this hardest grief and the insights that she has gained over the years from other...  Read More >>

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Running My Race: Reflections on Life, Loss, Aging, and Forty Years of Teaching

Running My Race: Reflections on Life, Loss, Aging, and...
Author: David Alan Black
ISBN: 9781631992940
Format: Paperback 		$44.85

A seminary professor reflects on living the gospel through moments of triumph and hardship, but always in the presence...  Read More >>

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Where are the Dead?: Exploring the idea of an embodied afterlife

Where are the Dead?: Exploring the idea of an embodied...
Author: Peter Moore
ISBN: 9781472484192
Format: Hardback 		$336.00

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Death and Finitude: Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality

Death and Finitude: Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental...
Author: Sami Pihlström
ISBN: 9781498524414
Format: Hardback 		$224.00

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Death and the Irish: A Miscellany

Death and the Irish: A Miscellany
Author: Salvador Ryan
ISBN: 9780993351822
Format: Paperback 		$77.63

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Drawings from a Dying Child: Insights into Death from a Jungian Perspective

Drawings from a Dying Child: Insights into Death from...
Author: Judith Bertoia
ISBN: 9781138795174
Format: Paperback 		$79.99

Originally published in 1993, this book concerns a young girl, Rachel, terminally ill with leukaemia. The book describes...  Read More >>

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The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death

The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death
Author: James R. Lewis
ISBN: 9781138253339
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

Brings together the best scholarship on the Solar Temple, including the selection of Solar Temple documents. This...  Read More >>

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Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual

Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual...
Author: Rane Willerslev ,  Dorthe Refslund Christensen
ISBN: 9781138253520
Format: Paperback 		$110.00

Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the UK...  Read More >>

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The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe

The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline...
Author: Andrew Cunningham
ISBN: 9781138246423
Format: Paperback 		$120.00

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks...  Read More >>

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The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material' in Modern Medical History

The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'Material'...
Author: Sally Wilde ,  Sarah Ferber
ISBN: 9781138246829
Format: Paperback 		$112.00

Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time...  Read More >>

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Death By Stupidity: 1001 of the most astonishingly bizarre ways to bite the dust

Death By Stupidity: 1001 of the most astonishingly bizarre...
Author: David Southwell ,  Matt Adams
ISBN: 9781853759710
Format: Paperback 		$26.99

Hundreds of factual accounts of bizarre, amazing and sometimes downright dumb ways to meet your maker are amassed...  Read More >>

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The Dying Body as a Lived Experience

The Dying Body as a Lived Experience
Author: Alan Blum (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138655157
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.

Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000...
Author: Scott Wilson
ISBN: 9780786479924
Format: Paperback 		$396.00

In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 12,000 people from...  Read More >>

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Preserving Grave Markers in Historic Cemeteries

Preserving Grave Markers in Historic Cemeteries
Author: United States ,  Mary F Striegel (National Center for Preservation and Technology and Training)
ISBN: 9780160934728
Format: Paperback 		$15.84

Print format not distributed to depository libraries.  Read More >>

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The Dance of Death: Danse Macabre

The Dance of Death: Danse Macabre
Author: Hans Holbein ,  Austin Dobson
ISBN: 9781539303305
Format: Paperback 		$31.55

The Dance of Death By Hans Holbein With an introductory note by Austin Dobson Dance of Death, also called Danse...  Read More >>

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