Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Sterben

Sterben

Author: Gian Domenico Borasio, MD (University of Munich) ,  Franz-Josef Bormann
ISBN: 9781280597589
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

As a result of its almost total displacement from the everyday life environment death threatens to become a target...  Read More >>

Obituaries in American Culture

Obituaries in American Culture

Author: Janice Hume (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9781283629775
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

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Time and Myth

Time and Myth

Author: John S Dunne
ISBN: 9781299175082
Format: Electronic book text
$221.76

What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying? In his exploration...  Read More >>

Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning

Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning

Author: Rabbi Jack Riemer, Rabbi
ISBN: 9781299048874
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

Forward by Sherwin B. Nuland As Jack Riemer demonstrates in this collection of Jewish resources for mourning and...  Read More >>

Middletown

Middletown

Author: Will Eno
ISBN: 9781306434959
Format: Electronic book text
$39.47

Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor and pain of life....  Read More >>

Bolsheviki

Bolsheviki

Author: David Fennario
ISBN: 9781322365749
Format: Electronic book text
$44.75

This cutting-edge drama by notorious socialist, anti-war playwright David Fennario debunks every sentimental notion...  Read More >>

Loss of a Life Partner

Loss of a Life Partner

Author: Professor Carolyn Ambler Walter, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781322536217
Format: Electronic book text
$95.01

Through discussions of various theories of grief, narratives of the bereaved obtained in interviews with 22 men...  Read More >>

The Party Of Your Life: Get the Funeral You Want and Deserve by Planning it Yourself

The Party Of Your Life: Get the Funeral You Want and...

Author: Erika Dillman
ISBN: 9781595800626
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Life After Suicide: Survival, Hope, and Healing

Life After Suicide: Survival, Hope, and Healing

Author: Cynthia L Long
ISBN: 9780788026669
Format: Paperback
$34.19

The death of a loved one by suicide is a life-changing and traumatic event that affects many people. Over the past...  Read More >>

Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800

Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800...

Author: Erik R. Seeman
ISBN: 9780812221947
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Through a series of engrossing narratives, Death in the New World uses the customs surrounding death among Indians,...  Read More >>

Kierkegaard and Death

Kierkegaard and Death

Author: Patrick Stokes ,  Adam Buben
ISBN: 9780253223524
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Discusses death and dying in Kierkegaard's work  Read More >>

Kierkegaard and Death

Kierkegaard and Death

Author: Patrick Stokes ,  Adam Buben
ISBN: 9780253356857
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and...

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson (University of Texas at Austin, USA) ,  Elyshia Aseltine (Lycoming College, USA)
ISBN: 9786613461568
Format: Electronic book text
$63.20

<p>Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering?...  Read More >>

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment...

Author: Sheldon Ekland-Olson (University of Texas at Austin, USA) ,  Danielle Dirks
ISBN: 9786613461551
Format: Electronic book text
$63.20

<p>Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century...  Read More >>

Death Dictionary: Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Literary and Vernacular Terms

Death Dictionary: Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Literary...

Author: Christine Quigley
ISBN: 9780786467150
Format: Paperback
$66.00

From police jargon to medical terminology, from the coarse language of death row to literary euphemisms, over 5,550...  Read More >>

Mass Fatalities: Managing the Community Response

Mass Fatalities: Managing the Community Response

Author: Peter R. Teahen
ISBN: 9781439849026
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny...

Author: James Burnham ,  Phillip J Sawtelle
ISBN: 9781455117512
Format: Audio
$79.07

Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the twentieth century and finds it afflicted...  Read More >>

Analysing Allerzielen Alom

Analysing Allerzielen Alom

Author: William R. Arfman
ISBN: 9789088900617
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Since 2005, Dutch artist Ida van der Lee's Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls' All Around) project, as well as its various...  Read More >>

Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone

Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone

Author: John Thomas Grant
ISBN: 9780764339103
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The story of life and death in America as told through beautiful cemetery art photography accompanied by meaningful...  Read More >>

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