Sociology: death & dying books

A rich survey of folk practices prior to mortuaries and the funeral industry  Read More >>

Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Their early and unexpected deaths propelled them to iconic status, as beacons for the...  Read More >>

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The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences...  Read More >>

One of Studs Terkel's most important oral histories, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? turns to the ultimate human...  Read More >>

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Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to...  Read More >>

Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination...  Read More >>

This novel, cross-disciplinary collection explains how dying, death, and grieving have changed in America, for better...  Read More >>

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The death of a loved one is a difficult and emotional time for everyone. For most of us, coping with death and planning...  Read More >>

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Dreamscape in A minor captures the short life of a musically gifted and misunderstood young man. Jeff could make...  Read More >>

Demonstrates the importance of understanding what closure really is before naively asserting it can or has been...  Read More >>

Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone. In his riveting, artfully...  Read More >>

L.W. Sumner explores the ethical and legal status of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and argues powerfully...  Read More >>

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""An amusing and cruelly accurate cultural critique"" (The Wall Street Journal), this informative and utterly debilitating...  Read More >>

Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of...  Read More >>

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