Sociology: death & dying books

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Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
Author: Saul M Olyan ISBN: 9786610753727 Format: Electronic book text	$513.77
A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate... Read More >>

Out Of The Darkness: Teens Talk About Suicide

Out Of The Darkness: Teens Talk About Suicide
Author: Marion Crook ISBN: 9781551521411 Format: Paperback	$23.95
Based on interviews with teen suicide survivors, parents, and professionals, a sensitive exploration of teen suicide.... Read More >>

Death Liturgy and Ritual: Volume II: A Commentary on Liturgical Texts

Death Liturgy and Ritual: Volume II: A Commentary on...
Author: Paul P.J. Sheppy , Professor Teresa Berger ISBN: 9780754639008 Format: Paperback	$83.99
Addresses important areas of concern in relation to funerals, death, liturgy and wider issues of society. Drawing... Read More >>

Sudden Death in Childhood: Support for the Bereaved Family

Sudden Death in Childhood: Support for the Bereaved...
Author: Ann Leslie Dent (Honourary Research Fellow, Bristol University, UK) , Alison Jane Stewart (Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Programme Leader, School of Nursing, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand.) ISBN: 9780750656467 Format: Paperback	$142.43
To lose a child is not 'appropriate' and the feelings involved become even more difficult to deal with. This practical... Read More >>

Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions

Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions
Author: Saul M. Olyan (, Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University) ISBN: 9780199264865 Format: Hardback	$324.00
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Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement

Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement
Author: David E. Balk , Charles A. Corr ISBN: 9780826192417 Format: Paperback	$184.80
Designed to improve our understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents when coping with death, dying, and... Read More >>

Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement

Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement
Author: Charles Corr, PhD, CT , Donna M. Corr ISBN: 9780826193216 Format: Paperback	$186.00
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International Suicide Rates and Prevention Strategies

International Suicide Rates and Prevention Strategies...
Author: Diego De Leo , Russell Evans ISBN: 9780889372887 Format: Hardback	$99.79
This book analyzes the latest trends in suicide rates and attempts around the world using data from the WHO's Mortality... Read More >>

Death and the ARC of Mourning in African American Literature

Death and the ARC of Mourning in African American Literature...
Author: Anissa Janine Wardi ISBN: 9780813026886 Format: Hardback	$145.20
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Death Liturgy and Ritual: Volume I: A Pastoral and Liturgical Theology

Death Liturgy and Ritual: Volume I: A Pastoral and Liturgical...
Author: Paul P.J. Sheppy , Professor Teresa Berger ISBN: 9780754605805 Format: Paperback	$60.99
This two-volume study of Christian funerary theology and practice presents an account of funeral rites and the central... Read More >>

Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide

Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide
Author: G Lloyd Carr , Gwendolyn C Carr ISBN: 9780836192674 Format: Paperback	$29.01
What does the Bible say on the topic of suicide? What does it not say? G. Lloyd Carr, now professor emeritus of... Read More >>

Emily a Child in Heaven

Emily a Child in Heaven
Author: Deborah Lycett ISBN: 9781860244438 Format: Paperback	$29.01
This book is all about Jesus.nbsp;The words recorded in it were written about Jesus over 2000 years ago. Yet today... Read More >>

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for...
Author: Robert I. Simon, MD ISBN: 9781585621705 Format: Paperback	$164.00
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Teens and Suicide

Teens and Suicide
Author: Hal Marcovitz ISBN: 9781590847244 Format: Hardback	$60.59
Using data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources, examines the issue of teenage suicide. Read More >>

Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths

Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths
Author: Rabbi Julia Neuberger , Linda Emmanuel ISBN: 9781857759457 Format: Paperback	$69.99
'This book is a tribute to expert nursing Read More >>

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for...
Author: Robert I. Simon, MD ISBN: 9781585621224 Format: Hardback	$219.00
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Dying Well: A Guide to Enabling a Good Death

Dying Well: A Guide to Enabling a Good Death
Author: Rabbi Julia Neuberger , Dorothy Austin ISBN: 9781857759402 Format: Paperback	$77.99
This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between... Read More >>

Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the Elites. Monografias A, Volume 205.

Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the...
Author: Laura Vivanco ISBN: 9781280545948 Format: Electronic book text	$248.29
The theory of the three estates made clear distinctions between the functions of the two estates which comprised... Read More >>

Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore

Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
Author: T Chee-Kiong ISBN: 9781280050855 Format: Electronic book text	$514.80
In recent years Singapore society has undergone a rapid process of modernization and industrialization which has... Read More >>

Quality of Mercy, The: One Brave Couple's Struggle for a Dignified Death

Quality of Mercy, The: One Brave Couple's Struggle for...
Author: Ross Anderson, PH. ISBN: 9781283921213 Format: Electronic book text	$66.21
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The Dominion of the Dead

The Dominion of the Dead
Author: Robert Pogue Harrison ISBN: 9780226317915 Format: Hardback	$59.40
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? This work devotes particular... Read More >>

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: 9781281949677 Format: Electronic book text	$277.20
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Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths

Caring for Dying People of Different Faiths
Author: J Neuberger ISBN: 9781280469954 Format: Undefined	$110.09
Now in its third edition this book covers the practical and ethical issues surrounding caring for people with different... Read More >>

Handbook of Death and Dying

Handbook of Death and Dying
Author: Clifton D. Bryant ISBN: 9780761925149 Format: Hardback	$1201.20
Features include: more than 100 contributors representing authoritative expertise in a diverse array of disciplines... Read More >>

Final Departures: Weird and Wonderful Ways of Dying Around the World

Final Departures: Weird and Wonderful Ways of Dying...
Author: Barry Albin Dyer ISBN: 9780340861639 Format: Paperback	$47.49
The author, head of one of Britain's largest firms of funeral directors, takes readers on a tour of the many traditions... Read More >>

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