Sociology: death & dying books

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Preparing for Death: The Science of Dying

Preparing for Death: The Science of Dying

Author: C.W. Adams
ISBN: 9781936251094
Format: Paperback
$19.80

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Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying

Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective...

Author: D. Brian Scarnecchia
ISBN: 9780810874220
Format: Hardback
$166.32

Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive...  Read More >>

Help Me Into The Light: Guide For The Afterlife

Help Me Into The Light: Guide For The Afterlife

Author: Billie J Peel
ISBN: 9781453639252
Format: Paperback
$26.37

This book is a guide to the afterlife. It's for those that want to know the truth about death.It will teach you...  Read More >>

About Death: Living Wills and Advance Decisions in the UK: Advance Decisions, 'Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate Agreements and the Debate About Assisted Suicide

About Death: Living Wills and Advance Decisions in the...

Author: Hilary Page ,  Dr Hilary Page
ISBN: 9780956494917
Format: Paperback
$19.41

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Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality...

Author: Dr Jonathan Weiner (Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson NY International Cultic Studies Association)
ISBN: 9780060765361
Format: Hardback
$73.89

In this fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure, a Pulitzer Prize-winning popular science writer asks,...  Read More >>

Snapshots

Snapshots

Author: Suzanne Zuckerman Werner
ISBN: 9781557090959
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World

Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in...

Author: Bonnie Effros (Professor of History, University of Florida)
ISBN: 9780271027852
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe...  Read More >>

Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500

Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death...

Author: Dr Clare Bielby ,  Anna Richards
ISBN: 9781571134394
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions....  Read More >>

The White House in Mourning: Deaths and Funerals of Presidents in Office

The White House in Mourning: Deaths and Funerals of...

Author: Martin S. Nowak
ISBN: 9780786447756
Format: Paperback
$100.32

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Preparing Emotionally for the Death of a Loved One: Coping Tools for the Dying Process, to Ease Grief After

Preparing Emotionally for the Death of a Loved One:...

Author: LCSW Brian Arcarese
ISBN: 9781600474422
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The journey you share with a dying loved one is the culmination of your life together. How you view death affects...  Read More >>

The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide: Meeting Plans for Facilitators

The Understanding Your Suicide Grief Support Group Guide:...

Author: Alan Wolfelt
ISBN: 9781879651609
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Offers information about coping for those who have experienced the suicide of a loved one, co-worker, neighbour,...  Read More >>

Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials

Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials...

Author: Michael Kammen
ISBN: 9780226423296
Format: Hardback
$46.95

Reveals a gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave...  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: 9780812242294
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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

Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma

Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma

Author: Norman C. McClelland
ISBN: 9780786448517
Format: Paperback
$145.20

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No Place For Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue

No Place For Dying: Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue...

Author: Helen Stanton Chapple
ISBN: 9781598744026
Format: Hardback
$326.00

What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and...  Read More >>

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary...

Author: H C Yarrow
ISBN: 9781161417197
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Adonais an Elegy on the Death

Adonais an Elegy on the Death

Author: Professor Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN: 9781161420098
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Most Musical Of Mourners, Weep Again! Lament Anew, Urania! He Died, Who Was The Sire Of An Immortal Strain, Blind,...  Read More >>

An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North...

Author: C H Yarrow
ISBN: 9781161421583
Format: Hardback
$94.91

Two such mounds have been described already in the county of Perry. Others have been found in various parts of the...  Read More >>

Burial Customs of the Egyptians Burial Customs of the Egyptians

Burial Customs of the Egyptians Burial Customs of the...

Author: F W Read
ISBN: 9781161524680
Format: Hardback
$81.71

THIS 22 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Religion and Ethics, by F. W. Read. To purchase the entire...  Read More >>

Ancient Burial Customs as Found in Various Parts of the Worlancient Burial Customs as Found in Various Parts of the World D

Ancient Burial Customs as Found in Various Parts of...

Author: Albert Churchward
ISBN: 9781161534801
Format: Hardback
$81.71

THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward. To...  Read More >>

On Certain Burial Customs as Illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul

On Certain Burial Customs as Illustrative of the Primitive...

Author: James G Frazer
ISBN: 9781161618020
Format: Hardback
$81.71

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more...  Read More >>

Conversations with Jerry and Other People I Thought Were Dead

Conversations with Jerry and Other People I Thought...

Author: Irene Kendig
ISBN: 9780982456705
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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