Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Death in England

Death in England
Author: Jupp ISBN: 9780813527895 Format: Paperback	$79.20
Death in England provides the first ever social history of death-from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales.... Read More >>

Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's lives

Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's lives
Author: Phyllis Rolfe Silverman (Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, and Project Director of the Child Bereavement Study, Harvard University) ISBN: 9780195109559 Format: Paperback	$56.95
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Mechanisms of Aging & Mortality: The Search for New Paradigms

Mechanisms of Aging & Mortality: The Search for New...
Author: Kenneth G Manton , Anatoli I Yashin ISBN: 9788778385079 Format: Hardback	$62.04
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What Is Death?

What Is Death?
Author: Etan Boritzer , Nancy Forrest ISBN: 9780963759740 Format: Hardback	$42.11
Introduces children to the concept of death with examples of customs and beliefs from different religions and cultures.... Read More >>

Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief

Men Don't Cry, Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes...
Author: Kenneth J. Doka , Terry L. Martin ISBN: 9780876309957 Format: Paperback	$99.00
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Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996

Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996...
Author: Senior Lecturer in the School of Education Avner Ben-Amos (Tel-Aviv University) ISBN: 9781280445057 Format: Electronic book text	$764.25
This is an interdisciplinary study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French Revolution... Read More >>

Life is Forever: Evidence for Survival After Death

Life is Forever: Evidence for Survival After Death
Author: Susy Smith , Howe. David ISBN: 9781583485743 Format: Paperback	$31.55
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Loss And Bereavement

Loss And Bereavement
Author: Sheila Payne , Sandra Horn ISBN: 9780335201051 Format: Paperback	$137.23
Helps students in understanding the important theoretical perspectives and specific models of adaptation to loss.... Read More >>

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences...
Author: W y Evans-Wentz ISBN: 9786610833412 Format: Electronic book text	$39.07
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide... Read More >>

Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and Social Differentials of Adult Mortality

Living and Dying in the USA: Behavioral, Health, and...
Author: Richard G Rogers , Robert A Hummer ISBN: 9786611038502 Format: Electronic book text	$443.26
The simplicity of using one data set in addressing the relationship of single variables to mortality distinguishes... Read More >>

Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer

Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death...
Author: Grace H Christ (Columbia University School of Social Work and FDNY/Columbia University Family Assessment and Guidance Prog., New York, NY) ISBN: 9781280452789 Format: Electronic book text	$115.82
Using qualitative analytic methods, this book identifies five developmentally derived age groups that clarify important... Read More >>

The Psychology of Death

The Psychology of Death
Author: Professor Robert Kastenbaum, PhD ISBN: 9781281765703 Format: Undefined	$132.00
In this extensively revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum examines and expands upon issues of dying and the ways in which... Read More >>

Death in the Victorian Family

Death in the Victorian Family
Author: Pat Jalland (Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University) ISBN: 9780198208327 Format: Paperback	$156.95
This book explores the experience of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830-1920. Drawing... Read More >>

Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness

Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness
Author: Steven Luper ISBN: 9780812693218 Format: Hardback	$69.99
This work presents a treatment of the issue of death, comparing the Western approach of ""optimising"" with the... Read More >>

Death: Philosophical Soundings

Death: Philosophical Soundings
Author: Herbert Fingarette ISBN: 9780812693294 Format: Hardback	$67.99
Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines... Read More >>

Jung on Death and Immortality

Jung on Death and Immortality
Author: C. G. Jung , Jenny Yates ISBN: 9780691006758 Format: Paperback	$47.50
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A Grief Unveiled: One Father's Journey through the Loss of a Child

A Grief Unveiled: One Father's Journey through the Loss...
Author: Gregory Floyd ISBN: 9781557252159 Format: Paperback	$32.95
Gregory Floyd reveals his heart-breaking journey through the sorrow of losing his youngest son. He deals not only... Read More >>

Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle...
Author: Caroline Walker Bynum , Paul Freedman ISBN: 9780812217025 Format: Paperback	$52.95
Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages. Read More >>

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective...
Author: Mary Bradbury , Robert Farr ISBN: 9780415150224 Format: Paperback	$103.00
Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical,... Read More >>

Remember Me: Socially Constructing Life After Death

Remember Me: Socially Constructing Life After Death...
Author: Margaret Mitchell ISBN: 9780876309773 Format: Paperback	$79.07
The way in which relationships with loved ones continue, endure and even grow after the biological death of that... Read More >>

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective

Representations of Death: A Social Psychological Perspective...
Author: Mary Bradbury , Robert Farr ISBN: 9780415150217 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Drawing upon a rare ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical,... Read More >>

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, c.1450-1700

The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early...
Author: C. Koslofsky ISBN: 9780333666852 Format: Hardback	$232.85
Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism.... Read More >>

DAILY TELEGRAPH GUIDE TO FUNERALS & REMEMBRANCE

DAILY TELEGRAPH GUIDE TO FUNERALS & REMEMBRANCE
Author: Sam Weller ISBN: 9780749430573 Format: Book	$27.50
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On Bereavement

On Bereavement
Author: Tony Walter ISBN: 9780335200801 Format: Paperback	$70.95
Should the bond with the dead be continued or broken? What is clear is that the grieving individual is not left... Read More >>

On Bereavement

On Bereavement
Author: Tony Walter ISBN: 9780335200818 Format: Hardback	$290.40
This volume looks at the social position of the bereaved. At its best, bereavement care offers reassurance, validation... Read More >>

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