Sociology: death & dying books

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Death and the City: The Nation's Experience, Told Through Brighton's History

Death and the City: The Nation's Experience, Told Through...

Author: Rose Collis
ISBN: 9781906469481
Format: Paperback
$31.05

In this lively and entertaining book, Rose Collis explores Brighton as a perfect microcosm of the nation's ultimate...  Read More >>

Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome

Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century...

Author: Barbara E. Borg (Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780199672738
Format: Hardback
$301.00

Through a study of tombs and burial customs in Rome and its surroundings, this volume demonstrates that the third...  Read More >>

What Obituaries Don't Tell You: Conversations about Life and Death

What Obituaries Don't Tell You: Conversations about...

Author: Kathryn F Weymouth, PhD
ISBN: 9781452561981
Format: Paperback
$40.68

"The terminal diagnosis is given, the knock on the door comes, and someone you love is dying or has just died. Death...  Read More >>

What Obituaries Don't Tell You: Conversations about Life and Death

What Obituaries Don't Tell You: Conversations about...

Author: Kathryn F Weymouth, PhD
ISBN: 9781452562001
Format: Hardback
$67.82

"The terminal diagnosis is given, the knock on the door comes, and someone you love is dying or has just died. Death...  Read More >>

Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan

Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa...

Author: Harold Bolitho
ISBN: 9780300204971
Format: Paperback
$49.95

The Japanese reaction to death struck foreign observers and later scholars as particularly subdued. In this study,...  Read More >>

The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological Record

The Funeral Kit: Mortuary Practices in the Archaeological...

Author: Jill L Baker
ISBN: 9781598746723
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Jill L. Baker’s innovative approach to mortuary archaeology begins by identifying commonalities of a culture from...  Read More >>

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Death in East Germany, 1945-1990

Author: Felix Robin Schulz
ISBN: 9781782380139
Format: Hardback
$269.10

As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses...  Read More >>

How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

Author: Karla Erickson
ISBN: 9781439908242
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.  Read More >>

How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

How We Die Now: Intimacy and the Work of Dying

Author: Karla Erickson
ISBN: 9781439908235
Format: Hardback
$241.56

Offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.  Read More >>

Sterben Und Gelassenheit: Von Der Kunst, Den Tod Ins Leben Zu Lassen

Sterben Und Gelassenheit: Von Der Kunst, Den Tod Ins...

Author: Verena Begemann ,  Daniel Berthold
ISBN: 9783525403457
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Wenn wir schon nicht gelassen leben, wie sollten wir dann gelassen sterben konnen? Sind die eigene Endlichkeit und...  Read More >>

The Production of Hospice Space: Conceptualising the Space of Caring and Dying

The Production of Hospice Space: Conceptualising the...

Author: Sarah McGann
ISBN: 9781409445791
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Counseling Individuals with Life Threatening Illness

Counseling Individuals with Life Threatening Illness...

Author: Kenneth J. Doka
ISBN: 9780826195814
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care

The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of...

Author: Thomas G Long ,  Reviewer Thomas Lynch, M.H
ISBN: 9780664238537
Format: Hardback
$95.04

""What happened to me while working at my father's funeral home was that folks began to treat me like a hero. They...  Read More >>

The Gray Zone: When Life Support No Longer Supports Life

The Gray Zone: When Life Support No Longer Supports...

Author: Deborah Day Laxson
ISBN: 9781592989805
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The patient is no longer able to speak, and you're responsible for making medical decisions..... It's that fuzzy...  Read More >>

Ante El Suicidio: Su Comprensión Y Tratamiento

Ante El Suicidio: Su Comprensión Y Tratamiento

Author: Luz De Lourdes Eguiluz ,  Martha Hermelinda Córdova
ISBN: 9786077723332
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Different types of studies--historical, psychosocial, theoretical, and case studies--which seek to delve into analyzing...  Read More >>

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, 2nd Edition

Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, 2nd Edition

Author: Greg Palmer
ISBN: 9781934733790
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged...

Author: Sheri Fink ,  Kirsten Potter
ISBN: 9780804128117
Format: Audio
$118.80

One of the New York Times s Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner...  Read More >>

A study of death

A study of death

Author: Henry Mills Alden
ISBN: 9785518644267
Format: Paperback
$158.27

A study of death This book, A study of death, by Henry Mills Alden, is a replication of a book originally published...  Read More >>

Advance Care Planning: Communicating About Matters of Life and Death

Advance Care Planning: Communicating About Matters of...

Author: Leah Rogne ,  Susana McCune
ISBN: 9780826110213
Format: Paperback
$108.00

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Bestattung Anregungen Fur Eine Innovative Praxis

Bestattung Anregungen Fur Eine Innovative Praxis

Author: Lutz Friedrichs
ISBN: 9783525630525
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Coming to Terms & Other Poems

Coming to Terms & Other Poems

Author: A Emerson Wiens
ISBN: 9781478718901
Format: Paperback
$39.47

In Coming to Terms, A. Emerson Wiens writes from the heart and the mind in understandable language. His goal is...  Read More >>

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