Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind

Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind

Author: Carolyn Baker ,  Guy McPherson
ISBN: 9780990661405
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Extinction Dialogs provides the unvarnished truth on what is actually happening in regards to global warming, the...  Read More >>

Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603-1912

Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration...

Author: Atsuko Hirai
ISBN: 9780674066823
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Strict decrees on the observance of death were part of the myriad laws enacted under the Tokugawa shogunate to control...  Read More >>

William Corder and the Red Barn Murder: Journeys of the Criminal Body

William Corder and the Red Barn Murder: Journeys of...

Author: S. McCorristine
ISBN: 9781137439383
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

Author: Glennys Howarth ,  Oliver Leaman
ISBN: 9780415757577
Format: Paperback
$118.00

The Encyclopedia of Death and Dying is the definitive reference source for death, dying and related concepts. It...  Read More >>

Mediating and Remediating Death

Mediating and Remediating Death

Author: Dorthe Refslund Christensen ,  Kjetil Sandvik
ISBN: 9781472413031
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The Social Construction of Death: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Leen Van Brussel ,  Nico Carpentier
ISBN: 9781137391902
Format: Hardback
$316.77

Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthropology, media and cultural...  Read More >>

The Healthy Country: A History of Life and Death in New Zealand

The Healthy Country: A History of Life and Death in...

Author: Alistair Woodward ,  Tony Blakely
ISBN: 9781869408138
Format: Paperback
$116.31

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Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After Death

Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After...

Author: Judy Bachrach ,  Susan Boyce
ISBN: 9781481509794
Format: Audio
$79.07

If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life?  Read More >>

One Life, Many Deaths

One Life, Many Deaths

Author: Brownell Wheeler
ISBN: 9780692269367
Format: Paperback
$42.21

As the path of his life unfolds, from a farm in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to the pinnacles of academic medicine,...  Read More >>

One Life, Many Deaths

One Life, Many Deaths

Author: Brownell Wheeler
ISBN: 9780986423307
Format: Hardback
$68.51

As the path of his life unfolds, from a farm in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to the pinnacles of academic medicine,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Being Mortal

The Politics of Being Mortal

Author: Alfred G. Killilea
ISBN: 9780813152875
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Samuel H. Preston ,  Michael R. Haines
ISBN: 9780691602271
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century....  Read More >>

Death and Afterlife in Modern France

Death and Afterlife in Modern France

Author: Thomas A. Kselman
ISBN: 9780691602097
Format: Paperback
$104.99

Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious...  Read More >>

Hope After Suicide: One Woman's Journey from Darkness to Light

Hope After Suicide: One Woman's Journey from Darkness...

Author: Wendy Parmley
ISBN: 9781462115006
Format: Paperback
$39.57

After her mother took her own life, Wendy Parmley learned firsthand the heartache, despair, and loneliness that...  Read More >>

On Death & Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy & Their Own Families

On Death & Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors,...

Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ,  M D Ira Byock, MD (Research Professor of Philosophy the Practical Ethics Center University of Montana Missoula MT)
ISBN: 9781476775548
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work, are now part of our common understanding...  Read More >>

Nana is Dying: Informing your child that a loved one is dying Speaking to your child about death Working through Grief

Nana is Dying: Informing your child that a loved one...

Author: James Olah
ISBN: 9781500783433
Format: Paperback
$23.63

This book addresses the issue of talking to your children about dying and death. When a parent knows what to say...  Read More >>

Soaring Beyond Self: Therapy for the Fears of Dying

Soaring Beyond Self: Therapy for the Fears of Dying...

Author: Susan Barry (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780976377726
Format: Paperback
$28.91

In Soaring Beyond self insights of modern psychology, death education and neuroscience are complemented by remarkable...  Read More >>

Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan

Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan

Author: Hikaru Suzuki (Singapore Management University)
ISBN: 9781138815650
Format: Paperback
$110.00

This book, based on extensive original research, explores the various ways in which Japanese people think about...  Read More >>

The Old Man's Love Story

The Old Man's Love Story

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
ISBN: 9780806146485
Format: Paperback
$35.20

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Increasing Suicides in Kashmir: A Sociological Study

Increasing Suicides in Kashmir: A Sociological Study...

Author: Dr B a Dabla
ISBN: 9789351288695
Format: Hardback
$92.37

The Title 'Increasing Suicides in Kashmir: a Sociological Study written/authored/edited by B.A. Dabla', published...  Read More >>

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: 9781138791152
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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

Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century

Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First...

Author: Candi K. Cann
ISBN: 9780813145419
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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