Sociology: death & dying books

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New Approaches to Preventing Suicide: A Manual for Practitioners

New Approaches to Preventing Suicide: A Manual for Practitioners...

Author: Tony Ryan ,  David Duffy
ISBN: 9781843102212
Format: Paperback
$97.55

This book explores the links between self-harm and suicide and presents international approaches to training in...  Read More >>

Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help for People Caring for Children of All Ages at the Time of a Close Bereavement

Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help...

Author: Mary Turner ,  Elaine Bailey
ISBN: 9781843102953
Format: Paperback
$48.99

Someone Very Important Has Just Died is a practical book written for those caring for children and teenagers suffering...  Read More >>

Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England

Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9781843830702
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Study of late Anglo-Saxon texts and grave monuments illuminates contemporary attitudes towards dying and the dead....  Read More >>

Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law, and Culture

Death Is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American...

Author: Robert A. Burt
ISBN: 9780520243248
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Offers an account of psychological and social forces underlying American cultural attitudes toward death. This book...  Read More >>

Treating Suicidal Behavior: An Effective, Time-Limited Approach

Treating Suicidal Behavior: An Effective, Time-Limited...

Author: M. David Rudd (University of Memphis, United States) ,  Thomas E. Joiner
ISBN: 9781593851002
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Provides an empirically supported approach to treating suicidality that is specifically tailored to today's managed...  Read More >>

From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe

From Sin to Insanity: Suicide in Early Modern Europe...

Author: Jeffrey Watt
ISBN: 9780801442780
Format: Hardback
$129.23

In the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, eleven authors combine elements...  Read More >>

Walking Higher

Walking Higher

Author: Alexander Renault, Editor
ISBN: 9781413456042
Format: Hardback
$59.51

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Communicating Environmentally Sustainable Transport: The Role of Soft Measures

Communicating Environmentally Sustainable Transport:...

Author: Oecd
ISBN: 9781280172434
Format: Electronic book text
$364.16

Progress towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) will require widespread acceptance of the need for...  Read More >>

Assessment and Decision Making for Sustainable Transport

Assessment and Decision Making for Sustainable Transport...

Author:
ISBN: 9781280172861
Format: Electronic book text
$304.58

Achieving more sustainable development hinges on planning and decision-making procedures that are able to bring...  Read More >>

Freemason Burial Services with General Instructions: Service in the Lodge Room, Church or House and at the Grave

Freemason Burial Services with General Instructions:...

Author: Robert Macoy
ISBN: 9781417950201
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The services herein arranged for the Burial of the Dead are adapted for all the purposes for which ceremonies of...  Read More >>

Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought...

Author: T. D. Hill
ISBN: 9780415970976
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Studies, Volume 4.

Dying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon...

Author: Victoria Thompson
ISBN: 9786611949679
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society...  Read More >>

Making Death Thinkable

Making Death Thinkable

Author: Franco De Masi
ISBN: 9781853437830
Format: Paperback
$91.08

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The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die

The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die

Author: Katherine Ashenburg
ISBN: 9780865477056
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Ashenburg explores the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures and times have devised to...  Read More >>

Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art

Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art

Author: Jack Solomon ,  Olivia Solomon
ISBN: 9781588381163
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Includes CIP cataloging which assumes a 1996 publication date.  Read More >>

Fatal Attachments: The Instigation to Suicide

Fatal Attachments: The Instigation to Suicide

Author: Viola Mecke
ISBN: 9780275982539
Format: Hardback
$76.00

Mecke (emerita, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford U.; emerita, educational psychology, California State...  Read More >>

Memory and Memorials: From the French Revolution to World War One

Memory and Memorials: From the French Revolution to...

Author: Jr. Shapiro ,  Jacqueline M. Labbe
ISBN: 9780765808134
Format: Paperback
$121.59

Focusing on the ""long"" nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book...  Read More >>

Foundations of Violence

Foundations of Violence

Author: Grace M Jantzen (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Grace M. Jantzen
ISBN: 9780415290326
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence...  Read More >>

Foundations of Violence

Foundations of Violence

Author: Grace M Jantzen (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Grace M. Jantzen
ISBN: 9780415290333
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence...  Read More >>

On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death

On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death...

Author: Robert Kastenbaum
ISBN: 9780520218802
Format: Hardback
$60.95

Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country...  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: 9781419106620
Format: Paperback
$55.31

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Adonais An Elegy On The Death

Adonais An Elegy On The Death

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN: 9781419104787
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Most Musical Of Mourners, Weep Again! Lament Anew, Urania! He Died, Who Was The Sire Of An Immortal Strain, Blind,...  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: 9781419101281
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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