Sociology: death & dying books

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

The Hands of Strangers portrays the tensions and moments of grace between aged nursing home residents and their...  Read More >>

Presents a comprehensive overview of what happened to death in the last decades since the taboo against death has...  Read More >>

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For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable...  Read More >>

A study of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s up to 2008. Based on comprehensive original research...  Read More >>

This newly expanded, fully revised second edition, with 11 new chapters, provides a comprehensive analysis of discrimination,...  Read More >>

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The Book of Donors for Strasbourg cathedral is an extraordinary medieval document dating from ca. 1320-1520, with...  Read More >>

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Charles Wilkins, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east...  Read More >>

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This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying...  Read More >>

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Dan Snyder narrowly escaped being cut from his junior hockey team for two years in a row. That's hardly the stuff...  Read More >>

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward...  Read More >>

Unique collection of essays on contemporary African funerals A collection of essays showing how funerals are...  Read More >>

Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because,...  Read More >>

Somewhere In Between: The Hokey Pokey, Chocolate Cake and The Shared Death Experience contains lighthearted true...  Read More >>

The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience...  Read More >>

This text reveals the roadmap, game plan, and paradigm shift to guarantee thecures for killer diseases and old age....  Read More >>

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised...  Read More >>

What people fear, they are also fascinated with-apprehension of the end is what keeps the topic of death a taboo....  Read More >>

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