Sociology: death & dying books

Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands...  Read More >>

This book accompanies the Reader for the OU course Death and Dying (K260) and is not a buy-back, which means guaranteed...  Read More >>

This book replaces the Dickenson: Death, Dying and Bereavement 2ED as the set text for the OU course Death and Dying...  Read More >>

Offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing....  Read More >>

Obituaries of 199 people and a dead parrot from ""The Economist's"" popular column  Read More >>

This volume humanizes the aging process in a no-holds-barred manner that gently forces people to recognize they...  Read More >>

"An orphan is someone who has lost both parents, and a widow is someone who has lost her husband, but what do you...  Read More >>

An examination of early medieval ideas about death and dying, in relation to funeral practices, traditions and rituals....  Read More >>

Empowering Schools and Communities: Your Guide to Suicide Prevention In the US alone, suicide tragically claims...  Read More >>

vision of the ending of social boundries the rise of lies betrayle in the sexy seen of hollywood itself.  Read More >>

The academic study of death rose to prominence during the 1960s. Courses on some aspect of death and dying can now...  Read More >>

We can all learn to open our hearts to hear what a dying person really needs at the end of his life if we are just...  Read More >>

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When Janice Ballenger joined a volunteer rescue company, she began keeping a journal, and clipping news articles...  Read More >>

Deals with the death of a loved one and the process of sorting through, living with, and discarding, the objects...  Read More >>

An atlas of mortality in Britain based on data from 1981 to 2004, this new study explores causes of death across...  Read More >>

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Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and...  Read More >>

Addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but which also have theological...  Read More >>

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This global tour of grief shimmers with the beauty of the infinite differences among cultural traditions. At the...  Read More >>

Collects four of the poet and preacher John Donne's most inspired sermons on death.  Read More >>