Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

And in the End: A Guide to the World's Weirdest Funerals

And in the End: A Guide to the World's Weirdest Funerals...

Author: Keith R Lindsay
ISBN: 9781280963377
Format: Electronic book text
$44.09

From the Stone Age onwards, humans have added a personal touch to our endings with ceremonies, burials and services....  Read More >>

Transport Policy and Funding

Transport Policy and Funding

Author: Dai Nakagawa ,  Ryoji Matsunaka
ISBN: 9781280633010
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

Examines how developed countries are solving the problem of providing capital for transportation goals. After describing...  Read More >>

Dealing with Deaths, Funerals, Wills and Bereavement: A Practical Guide

Dealing with Deaths, Funerals, Wills and Bereavement:...

Author: Roger Jones, Pro (Franklin International LLC)
ISBN: 9781281273949
Format: Electronic book text
$63.20

When my father died, we didn't have a clue what to do. How many others find themselves in a similar predicament...  Read More >>

Denial of Death

Denial of Death

Author: Ernest Becker ,  Raymond Todd
ISBN: 9780786143238
Format: Downloadable audio file
$131.87

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Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Cambridge Studies in Archaeology.

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Cambridge...

Author: Howard Williams
ISBN: 9786610703241
Format: Electronic book text
$617.76

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Dealing with Deaths, Funerals, Wills and Bereavement: A Practical Guide

Dealing with Deaths, Funerals, Wills and Bereavement:...

Author: Roger Jones, Pro
ISBN: 9786611273941
Format: Electronic book text
$105.34

When my father died, we didn't have a clue what to do. How many others find themselves in a similar predicament...  Read More >>

Death in Ancient China

Death in Ancient China

Author: Constance A Cook
ISBN: 9786611399832
Format: Electronic book text
$749.76

This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite...  Read More >>

Alpha - Gamma

Alpha - Gamma

Author: Margarete Billerbeck
ISBN: 9781281993168
Format: Electronic book text
$739.20

This encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 AD, is more or less the Byzantine Encyclopaedia Britannica of the ancient...  Read More >>

Death in Ancient China

Death in Ancient China

Author: Constance A Cook
ISBN: 9781281399830
Format: Electronic book text
$374.88

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Bone Songs

Bone Songs

Author: Andre Gregory ,  Andr Gregory
ISBN: 9781322355672
Format: Electronic book text
$36.83

The latest work from the co-creator of My Dinner with Andre  Read More >>

Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Author: Lesley Alexandra Sharp
ISBN: 9781322662602
Format: Electronic book text
$63.33

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Spousal Bereavement in Late Life

Spousal Bereavement in Late Life

Author: Deborah Carr ,  Randolph M. Nesse
ISBN: 9780826142443
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Provides analysis and theoretical interpretation of factors that contribute to a range of adjustment patterns among...  Read More >>

Ancient Burial Customs as Found in Various Parts of the World

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

Author: Albert Churchward
ISBN: 9781417961382
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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

Burial Customs of the Egyptians

Burial Customs of the Egyptians

Author: F W Read
ISBN: 9781425356033
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Primitive Conceptions of Disease and Death

Primitive Conceptions of Disease and Death

Author: George Gordon Dawson
ISBN: 9781425363635
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Burning Women: A Global History of Widow-sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present

Burning Women: A Global History of Widow-sacrifice from...

Author: Joerg Fisch
ISBN: 9781905422036
Format: Paperback
$84.35

""Following into death"" is an ancient and widespread custom, which entails one or more people following a dead...  Read More >>

Burning Women – A Global History of Widow–Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present

Burning Women – A Global History of Widow–Sacrifice...

Author: Joerg Fisch
ISBN: 9781905422029
Format: Hardback
$277.20

""Following into death"" is an ancient and widespread custom, which entails one or more people following a dead...  Read More >>

The Corpse: A History

The Corpse: A History

Author: Christine Quigley
ISBN: 9780786424498
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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INTERACTING with the DEAD-PERSPECTIVES on MORTUARY ARCHAEOLOGY for the NEW MILLENNIUM

INTERACTING with the DEAD-PERSPECTIVES on MORTUARY ARCHAEOLOGY...

Author: University Press of Florida ,  Jane E. Buikstra
ISBN: 9780813028569
Format: Hardback
$151.80

This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and...  Read More >>

Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain

Requiem: The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain

Author: Roberta Gilchrist ,  Barney Sloane
ISBN: 9781901992595
Format: Paperback
$158.40

This volume challenges previous assumptions about medieval burial through comprehensive study of excavated monastic...  Read More >>

Death and Religion in a Changing World

Death and Religion in a Changing World

Author: Kathleen Garces-Foley (Marymount University, USA.) ,  Kathleen Garces-Foley
ISBN: 9780765612229
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Looking at how religious people approach death in the twenty-first century, this is a comprehensive study of the...  Read More >>

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt

Author: Jan Assmann ,  David Lorton
ISBN: 9780801442414
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion...  Read More >>

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